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Showing 1 to 20 of 147 for “"and Human Development"”.
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Governance and human development in Sub-Saharan Africa
… governance, democracy, resource dependency, and human development in Africa. Specifically, the Human Development Index (HDI) and six governance indicators from the WGI database are employed to estimate a dynamic panel model on forty-eight sub-Sahara African countries throughout 1996 to 2019 …
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Essays on inequality of opportunity in health and human development
… essays on inequality of opportunity in health and human development. Chapter 2 proposes an empirical implementation of the concept of inequality of opportunity in health and applies it to data from the UK National Child Development Study. Drawing on the distinction between circumstance and …
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Gender equality and human development in Macedonia during transition (1991-2006)
… rights to which citizens are entitled and by the means of the evaluation of their capabilities to exercise these rights. Gender equality, as one of the main strongholds of the concept of human development is measured through the application of nine gender relevant capabilities in a Case …
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Spatiality and Human Development in the Western Cape of South Africa
This study explored how spatiality influenced human development in the Western Cape and specifically Cape Town, in the post-apartheid era. It argued for the incorporation of the spatiality dimension into the traditional Human Development Index (HDI), while focussing on pertinent strategies to …
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The Consequences of Conditional Cash Transfers for Political Behavior and Human Development
<p>The Global South, and particularly Latin America, experienced a remarkable expansion in conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in the last fifteen years. Although a large literature examines the effects of CCTs on human development, the political behavioral consequences remain underexplored. …
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An Exploration of Nature and Human Development in Young Adult Historical Fantasy
… historical writing focuses on the cause and effect of human action, assuming that it is the historian’s responsibility to recount the ebbs and flows of human progress. In the process of laying hold of the past as a narrative of human action, historical writing has developed the tendency …
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Management of the brain drain and its relationship withdemocratisation and human development in Libya
This thesis explores the brain drain and its relationship with democratisation and overall human development, including political development, using Libya as a case study. However, its implications are applicable to a wider region of developing countries, especially the Middle East and Africa. The …
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Is China the Answer? The Effect of Chinese Engagement on Economic and Human Development in Africa
<p>Though the relationship between China and Africa dates back to the 1950s, China's ever-increasing demand for energy sources has garnered newfound attention from scholars, coinciding with the rapid expansion of the Chinese economy over the last fifteen years. In order to fuel its economic …
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The effectiveness of protected area funding for forest conservation and human development in the Peruvian Amazon
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Digital Transformation Practices in the College of Education and Human Development at University of Minnesota Twin Cities
The continuous and massive pressure for innovation, as well as the impacts of COVID-19, have accelerated the demand for digital transformation (DT) in every sector. DT refers to fundamental change brought about by the adaption and integration of digital technologies that enhance workplace culture …
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Leadership in Africa: A hermeneutic dialogue with Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere on equality and human development
This study deals with leadership and 'humanness' and compares the perceptions of human equality of two outstanding African leaders, 'fathers of their nations', Kwame Nkrumah, first president of Ghana, and Julius Nyerere, first president of Tanganyika, later Tanzania. Leadership is a key issue for …
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Effects of Maternal Depression on Childhood Overweight and Obesity: Findings from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study.
<p>Overweight and obesity among children and youth in the United States is a serious public health concern. The longitudinal relationships between maternal depression and childhood overweight and obesity were examined using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development …
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An Epidemiological Study of Maternal Depression: Findings from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development.
… data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. Maternal depression was assessed with the Center of Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. The prevalence of maternal depression was highest at 1 month, decreased at 6 months, and then kept fairly stable to 36 months. The …
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From Dependence to Global Integration for Development: A Case Study of Vietnam—from 1975 to Present
… the process of Vietnam's global integration for development in order to conclude that Vietnam has been able to achieve economic development and human development by joining regional and global institutions and working closely with multilateral international development agencies.</p> <p>With …
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Does Aid Really Help? The Nexus Between Development Aid and State-Society Resilience in Fragile Situations
<p>This study aims to determine how development aid impacts state-society resilience, and how such resilience impacts aid flows in fragile situations. It particularly examines if development aid builds state-society resilience in fragile situations listed in the harmonized list of World Bank, …
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Effects of Foreign Aid in SADC Region: A Case for Malawi
… countries continue to receive Official Development Aid, and Malawi is not an exception. This research paper examined the effect of Official Development Aid on the Gross Domestic Product and Human Development Index in Malawi, using annual time series data from 1990 to 2018. In addition, …
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The Impact of State-Promoted Participation in Democracy and Development: A Comparison of Venezuela and Mexico
… a useful alternative to address high inequality and lack of meaningful political representation allowed by clientelist politics in various parts of the world. This project explores the question: what is the impact that state-promoted participation has on democracy and development, the two key …
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Ghost Forests of the Mid-Atlantic : how sea-level rise is killing our coastlines
Up and down the eastern seaboard of the United States, ocean levels are rising at rates faster than just about anywhere in the world. Coastal forests are dying off as a result-an early warning, if people will pay attention, of the disruptive changes in store for both natural ecosystems and human …
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The Impact of Development Aid on Human Development
… dissertation examines the relationship between development aid and human development in recipient countries. The primary function of this research is to determine which types of aid are most effective in improving human development. To accomplish this goal, I use a fixed effects regression …
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