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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"Local development"”.
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Labor Migration from Uzbekistan: Social and Economic Impacts on Local Development
… labor migration and incoming remittances on local development in Uzbekistan. The study consists of seven chapters, where a thorough analysis of existing literature and studies in field was done and based on empirical analysis and survey results and case study findings graphic models of the …
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Participation by place-based community organisations in local development: case studies from East Cork
… the centre of social, economic and environmental development processes. To this end, policies grounded in a Third Way approach have sought to forge stronger linkages between the state and voluntary community-based organisations. Concepts such as active citizenship, social capital, partnership and …
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Global niche markets and local development : clientelism and fairtrade farmer organizations in Paraguay's sugar industry
… to leverage globalization for smallholder development. Paraguay's smallholder sugarcane farmers have been the unlikely beneficiaries of these new global market niches, as the world's largest exporters of Fairtrade and organic sugar. Two Paraguayan cane farmer organizations share similar …
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Community Land Trusts: resilient in a crisis and a potential model for local development in the Outer Hebrides
… they can be seen as a model for sustainable local development.<br/>The evidence gathered for the study indicates that for some communities in the Outer Hebrides, a Community Land Trust has delivered significant community and economic development by providing jobs, community-based initiatives, …
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Chinese Benteng Women’s Participation in Local Development Affairs in Indonesia: Appropriate means for struggle and a pathway to claim citizen’ right?
It had been more than two decades passing by aftermath the devastating Asia’s Financial Crisis in 1997, subsequently followed by Suharto’s step down from his presidential throne which he occupied for more than three decades. The financial turmoil turned to a political disaster furthermore has led …
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Towards a paradigm shift in social enterprise: taking the mystery out of social enterprise in voluntary and community sector local development agencies
… theory study of Voluntary and Community Sector Local Development Agencies (LDAs) as they attempt to support groups who want to start a social enterprise. The research was informed by the work of an Action Research Group (ARG) which was undertaking action research into how to develop a regional …
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Rehabilitation of traditional heritage and local development. The role of the transmission of traditional construction knowledge and the empowerment of local communities in the reactivation of marginal places. A case-study approach
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Theorising neo-liberal reforms and the shifting contours of local governance in Dublin: A case study on the metamorphosis of the local partnership model under the 2000-2006 Local Development and Social Inclusion Programme
… Partnership Companies (APCs) under the 2000-2006 Local Development and Social Inclusion Programme (LDSIP) by means of an empirical case study. It analyses how governance changes and associated impacts on funding arrangements for APCs are experienced, perceived and explained by individuals from …
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Analyzing the Politics of Development Funding, Competition, and Corruption in the Ch’orti’ Maya Area
… thesis is a study of the obstacles that prevent development practitioners from prioritizing beneficiaries’ needs when implementing development projects in the Ch’orti’ Maya area. Historically, structural dynamics have prevented the Ch’orti’ population from meeting their basic needs. While working …
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Rimesse e sviluppo locale nel sistema migratorio del Golfo Persico
… view, the migration process in connection with development issues, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa region. Adopting a south-south perspective of migration flows, which is focusing on migration from the Maghreb and Mashreq towards the GCC, the research focuses on the linkage between …
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DESENVOLVIMENTO LOCAL NAS COMUNIDADES SITUADAS EM ÁREAS DE INFLUÊNCIA DA PETROBRAS NO ESTADO DO ESPÍRITO SANTO
… reconsidered from the perspective of sustainable local development, on the premise that no civil society organization, for profit or not, can survive in an unstable environment and unequal. At the same time, companies have increasingly assumed the role of providers and have been called to social …
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Local matters: Regulating economic development in two Indiana cities
<p>Since the 1970s, local governments have utilized similar redevelopment tools to counteract economic dislocations but cities often experience divergent development pathways. This project explores why these divergences occur through a comparative case study of a college town and factory town in …
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Educação ambiental como estratégia de desenvolvimento local: um estudo de caso
… Education projects with a strategic vision of Local Development, understood as a dynamic process of transformation, towards the building of endogenous power so that a particular community is capable of managing itself, developing its socioeconomic potential, maintaining its environmental …
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The politics of local government and development in Sri Lanka: An analysis of the contribution of non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
… decentralising powers to provincial and local levels, have been proposed, but none have been fully implemented. The Sinhala nationalist parties and groups which have supported successive governments have generally rejected all decentralisation proposals. Moreover, the political elite has …
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Development transformation and freedom : critical perspectives on development, transformation and freedom, with reference to a social and economic history of the state, markets and civil practices in the Western Cape of South Africa, c. 1910-1984
… evolution with particular reference to regional development and planning. Regional and local development and planning practices emerged, offering possibilities for more efficient resource allocative arrangements that distinguished not only between sectors, but also provided the promise of its …
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An Investigation into the Role of Local Government in Enhancing the Public Participation in Sindh, Pakistan: Policy and Practice in Service Delivery
… that the primary role of the decentralise local governance is to establish closer relationship between rural communities and the governing authorities in local development. In Pakistan, the system of local governments has always been introduced by the non-democratic forces. The …
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Developing resident leadership : theory and practice in Boston's neighborhoods
… in response to encroaching government policy and local development. The South End's Villa Victoria housing complex is a testament to the work of Puerto Rican residents to gain site control and save the area from demolition under Urban Renewal in 1968. In the 1960s, residents in several communities …
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Trasformazioni urbane e sviluppo locale. Elementi di competitività tra città.
… i processi di sviluppo socio-economico a livello locale. Si è cercato in primis di analizzare le tendenze contemporanee dominanti riguardanti lo sviluppo urbano e le reali dinamiche che stanno alla base dei cambiamenti intervenuti nell assetto urbano soprattutto negli ultimi trent anni. …
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Willingness to pay for industrial recruitment: A look at local decision-maker activity versus citizen preference
Academic research in the area of economic development policy is overwhelmingly critical of industrial recruitment, recommending instead that resources be directed towards strategies such as business retention and expansion, fostering local entrepreneurship, and amenity development. This research …
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SAPERI LOCALI E ATTIVITÀ D'IMPRESA COME BENI POSIZIONALI PER LO SVILUPPO TERRITORIALE. INDAGINE SU UN CAMPIONE DI IMPRESE NEL COMPARTO DELLE CONSERVE ALIMENTARI.
Saperi locali e attività d’impresa come beni posizionali per lo sviluppo territoriale. Indagine su un campione di imprese del comparto delle conserve alimentari In questa tesi vengono analizzate le caratteristiche delle imprese del comparto delle conserve sottolio nelle Provincie di Ragusa e …
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