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Showing 1 to 20 of 194 for “"Institutional framework"”.
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Squatter upgrading in Zambia : adequacy of the institutional framework
… vision. However, without a squatter upgrading framework in place, the research assumed government would use the existing Lusaka Squatter Upgrading Project (LSUP) framework. Hence, this research titled Squatter Upgrading in Zambia: Adequacy of the Institutional Framework, undertook to examine …
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Managing agricultural contamination of ground water: the institutional framework
Contamination from agricultural fertilizers and pesticides has been recognized as a serious threat to underground drinking water sources. Through separate federal acts and amendments, the states have been given various levels of support with which to attack this contamination problem. However, …
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The East African community‘s maritime domain: an innovative institutional framework
… group, al-Shabaab. The lack of legal and institutional maritime frameworks and a weak Secretariat at the EAC are among the main factors that prevent the EAC taking a leading role in regional maritime security governance. At the time of writing, there are no maritime security policies, …
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The Entrepreneurial Gender Gap in sub-Saharan Africa: An Institutional Framework
… levels of entrepreneurial activities under an institutional framework addresses two questions: Why do some countries have above average female involvement in entrepreneurship while other countries do not? And, more specifically, why are countries in sub-Saharan Africa more likely than countries …
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Trade in the Roman Empire: A Study of the Institutional Framework
The leading question behind this dissertation is: how did trade operate in the Roman Empire under conditions of imperfect government enforcement in private contracting, and of imperfect information? The Roman State, unlike modern states, did not employ the powers at its disposal to enforce private …
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Rethinking the legal and institutional framework for digital financial inclusion in Nigeria
… considered and options for suitable legal and institutional frameworks are explored. In summary, financial inclusion is broadly discussed in chapter one, while a law and development theoretical and analytical framework is constructed in chapter two. Chapter three examines the legal and …
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Ground water management in Virginia: a comparative evaluation of the institutional framework
… purpose of this study is the examination of the institutional framework for ground water management, with specific consideration given to Virginia as a case study. The following objectives are encompassed within the general goal of institutional evaluation: (1) identification of the physical …
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Assessment of the Institutional Framework for Disaster Management in Zanzibar: The Case of West District
… assess the effectiveness of disaster management framework in Zanzibar, particularly in the West District. The study was conducted among members of the committees for disaster management that are the District and Shehia Committees. Their selection was done using both random and purposive sampling …
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Developing a legal and institutional framework for witness protection in Nigeria: reflections from international perspectives
… and conceptual issues within the existing legal framework for protecting witnesses. Using the Nigerian case study, this thesis illustrates the obscurities inherent in the concept of witness protection. These are highlighted around five critical areas: the definition of witness protection; the …
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The institutional framework of community formation: the law and economics of municipal incorporation in California
… and budgetary consequences of alternative institutional structures governing the creation, alteration, and dissolution of municipal corporations. The primary hypothesis is that the legal structure governing the formation of communities will significantly affect (1) the number of cities, and …
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Institutional framework for promoting and supporting small, micro and medium enterprise in South Africa: supply perspective
… that hinder SMME development and growth is the institutional framework. Institutions are viewed as the platform that could be used to apply formal and/or informal “rules of the game” in society. These institutions play a critical role for the individuals and organisations (our emphasis) to …
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A bottom-up participatory governance institutional framework for sustainable community development in a Malaysian sub-urban area
The concern in governance institutional framework for a sustainable community development has been recognised as being a major social, economic and environment concern which has been a focal point of the United Nation and deliberated in Rio+20 summit. The UNEP (2012) report recognised that the …
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Event-B in the Institutional Framework: Defining a Semantics, Modularisation Constructs and Interoperability for a Specification Language
… constructs for Event-B. In fact, the institutional framework that we have incorporated Event-B into is more accommodating to modularisation than the current state-of-the-art for Rodin. Furthermore, we present institution morphisms that facilitate interoperability between the respective …
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An examination of the Institutional framework, problems and extent of protection of children against economic exploitation in Urban Areas: The case of children in Lusaka City
The study examined the institutional framework, problems and extent of protection of children against economic exploitation in urban areas by looking at the case of children in Lusaka City. In 2006, the Zambian government conducted a review of the 1994 National Child Policy. Following the review, …
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The development of African capital markets: a legal and institutional approach
… economic growth. However the precise legal and institutional framework that would induce rapid and sustainable growth of the newly established capital markets in developing countries appears to continue eluding policy makers and their advisers. As a result, most capital markets currently …
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Diversity in management accounting practice through the ABC paradox : testing an institutional perspective
… the ability of Burns and Scapens' (2000) Institutional Framework, drawn from Old Institutional Economics, to explain diversity in management accounting practice. The framework contends that management accounting practices can shape, and be shaped by, the taken for granted ways of thinking …
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Under what conditions is the management of migratory wildlife resources successful?
… it makes no difference, as long as the same institutional framework applies to all the disjoint areas. We however reason that from a conservation perspective, it is better to have a single transfrontier park due to economies of scale attainable from a larger reserve. We also investigate the …
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