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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Standards of living"”.
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A Study of Thirty Sub-Standard Homes in South Omaha
… the necessarily limited economics, the results of the various standards of living reflect themselves in social life in various ways. Most particularly in cities do we see the reflection of what economists call the various standards of living. By a summary of the living conditions in thirty …
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Political ecology of inequality in tourism development in rural Mongolia.
Tourism is often advocated as a means of poverty reduction in the developing world, despite limited evidence about its effectiveness. There is even less research on tourism's wider effects on standards of living and general inequality in developing countries. This study explores the views of …
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Community social status effects on migration outcomes
Using the geocoded version of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79), this study examines patterns of internal migration in the United States by investigating individual residential mobility between low socioeconomic and high socioeconomic counties. Specifically, through the use of …
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Distributional impact of health care finance in South Africa
… health insurance contributions and direct out-of-pocket payments. These mechanisms impact differently on different households. While there are empirical evidence in developed countries, the distributional impact of such payments and methodological challenges in such assessments in the context …
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Two County Down towns, Newcastle and Castlewellan: a comparative study in social geography
The purpose of this thesis is to illustrate certain trends in urban development in Ulster in the period from 1600 to the present time as shown by two small Co. Down towns - Newcastle and Castlewellan.<br/><br/>Altogether there are four main points of discussion in this study. The first topic is the …
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Managing the welfare impacts of urbanization in Zambia: A case for a composite district performance index
This paper looks at the evolution of urbanization in Zambia. The country has a population of just over 15 million people with about 35% living in urban areas. The population in the urban areas is projected to increase driven by both natural population growth and rural-urban migration. This …
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Elemental - Connecting the User with the Planet through Architecture
The modern world has forgotten a crucial part of what historically has been a beautiful experience in our homes: its connection to the planet. This thesis proposes a mix-use building that acts as an instrument to connect the users with the planet while maintaining contemporary standards of living. …
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De-Westernizing The Far East
… forests; lifestyle unchanged for hundreds of years. However, with globalization causing an exposure to western standards of living, in conjunction with the country’s predisposition towards all things foreign, the people of Yunnan have begun forgoing generations of vernacular architecture in …
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The contribution of literacy education in raising the standard of living: A case study of two Namibian informal settlements
The Ministry of Education Arts and Culture in Namibia has historically invested resources into adult literacy education to ensure the realization of both national and international undertakings. However, despite such efforts, scores of Namibian citizens are still in need of a literacy education …
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The contribution of literacy education in raising the standard of living: a case study of two Namibian informal settlements
The Ministry of Education Arts and Culture in Namibia has historically invested resources into adult literacy education to ensure the realization of both national and international undertakings. However, despite such efforts, scores of Namibian citizens are still in need of a literacy education …
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Sustainability with Globalization: An Unsustainable Proposition
… Sustainability, the capacity to maintain high standards of living through generations, is at stake. This paper examines the problems of sustainability with globalization from several perspectives. High statistical correlation between indices of globalization and environmental degradation (r2 = …
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The Role of Private International Financial Capital Flows in Support of Development for Emerging Market Countries
… market economies as they seek increase their standards of living. Financial globalization, innovation and international financial capital flows are prominent factors influencing macroeconomic stability and the pace of growth and development around the globe. This dynamic has become even more …
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Thomas Morley and the business of music in Elizabethan England
… middle classes. Rising literacy and improving standards of living in English cities helped to develop a society in which amateur music-making became a significant leisure activity, providing a market of consumers for printed recreational music. His visit to the Low Countries in 1591 allowed him …
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Transnational Migration and Political Exile in Laos
The failures of development efforts in underachieving countries bring into question the effectiveness of the structures and mechanisms that govern policymaking. Laos, in particular, is a small country located in Southeast Asia that has recently gained prominence in spheres of international …
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Capacity Building in Income Generating Activities among Old Aged Social Groups in Ngarenaro Ward, Arusha
This project was initiated as a result of participatory community assessment conducted in the areas of Community, Economic, Environmental and Health Spheres. Through ranking exercise community members identified Income Generating Activities for the elderly as priority number one to be solved. The …
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We All Want to Change the World: How Behavioral Insights Can Help Reduce Carbon Emissions
<p>The world is in the midst of an unprecedented environmental crisis driven primarily by human behavior. As the world has globalized, countries have developed, and standards of living have improved, global pollution has skyrocketed and has resulted in a wide range of environmentally destructive …
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'Sick, aged and infirm': adults in the new Birmingham workhouse, 1852-1912
This study has explored the role of a large urban workhouse and its separate infirmary in Birmingham in the provision of indoor medical care for adult paupers between 1852 and 1912. Due to the difficulty in distinguishing between the medical and social care of older people, it has examined the …
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Causes of perinatal deaths in Ga-Rankuwa Hospital Obstetrics Unit : an autopsy study of 100 cases
… Perinatal mortality is regarded as an indicator of the social status and obstetrical care within a given community. The developed world has witnessed a dramatic decline in perinatal mortality as standards of living improved. Unfortunately, this turn of events has not been seen in the Third World …
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Consuming, producing, defining halal : halal authorities and Muslim consumers in South Africa
… authority was the Muslim Judicial Council of Cape Town and the product was Flora-margarine. The certification of a non-meat product signaled a major shift in halal in South Africa. It represented the development of a halal consciousness that extended beyond the realm of purely meat products …
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Analysis and design of household rainwater catchment systems for rural Rwanda
… systems to improve the quantity and quality of water available and therefore achieve higher standards of living for the Bisate village. Given the climatic and geographic characteristics of Bisate, rainwater harvesting represents one of the most appropriate solutions to improve water supply. …
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