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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"development institutions"”.
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Continuities and discontinuities in urban development institutions : a case study of Lahore Development Authority
City development authorities are one of the key institutions in urban development and planning in South Asian cities. Pakistan and India share a history and have experienced the similar trend of Town Improvement Trusts established by the British transforming into Development Authorities. Both these …
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Hedging to Safety: A Political Economy of Derivatives, Risk and Agriculture in the Developing World
… become common for researchers and international development institutions to recommend the use of derivative instruments to developing country farmers and policymakers as a means of insuring agricultural incomes against the threats posed by volatile global commodity prices. Despite such …
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Opportunity in Haiti : women as agents of resilience in post-disaster reconstruction
… sixteen months, as international and national institutions struggled to respond in an effective and efficient manner, Haitian women, and their organizations, have served a central role in cultivating stability within affected communities. As institutions and communities seek to reconstruct the …
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Production upgrading and skills development in the Western Cape clothing sector: are industry requirements being met by institutional policy implications?
… presents an overview and analysis of skills development in the Western Cape clothing sector in the context of production upgrading. The analysis touches on the broader South African skills development framework and industrial policy towards the clothing sector, notably the shift from mass …
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Visual and textual representations of childhood by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 1999 to 2003
… their persuasiveness. As regards arguments that development institutions export ideal notions of childhood specific only to western societies, the paper finds that while such ideals certainly are present in the representations, the proper ideal is by no means the sole embodiment of exported …
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Comparative assessment of matching grants and microcredit interventions in improving livelihood of peasant farmer in Mazabuka District, Zambia
… level significantly among peasant farmers. Development Institutions and government deploy various financing models to fund peasant farmers as a means of intervention to alleviate poverty. This study assesses and compares two financing model i.e. matching grants and microcredit in order to …
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Independent power projects in Africa : balancing development and investment outcomes
… loans from multilateral and bilateral development institutions, and a push for improved efficiency in a state-owned utility sector that was considered to be underperforming. This dissertation reviews how IPPs developed across both North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis …
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Participatory communication in decentralised planning: community participation in development planning in Zambia
… attachment on communication in district development planning. It outlines the context in which communities communicate and take action to improve their livelihoods, and describes the extent to which institutions strive to help communities participate in planning for their own development. …
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Participatory communication in decentralised planning: community participation in development planning in Zambia
… attachment on communication in district development planning. It outlines the context in which communities communicate and take action to improve their livelihoods, and describes the extent to which institutions strive to help communities participate in planning for their own development. …
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The development of a support framework for informal entrepreneurship in uMhlathuze Local Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa
… municipality and 4 officials from financial development institutions (FDIs) were sampled and interviewed using in-depth format. The findings indicate that most informal enterprises in uMhlathuze local municipality are owned by black females who are motivated by the high unemployment rate to …
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Pentecostalism, Politics, and Development in Nigeria: Understanding Investment in Nigerian Development in the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)
… RCCG movement is its conceptual engagement with development in Nigeria. Over the course of the RCCG's organisational history, its investment in Nigerian development has increased commensurate to its religious worldview prioritising prosperity over holiness. Today, the RCCG invests in a range of …
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Strategic issues in sustainable development
The paradigm of sustainable development has moved center-stage in the development community and strategies for achieving sustainable development are proliferating. However, the capacity of institutions to support sustainable development in non-industrialized countries has not been adequately …
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On the Economic Effects of Policy Responsiveness: The Role of Candidate Selection for General Elections
… because it is a determinant of growth and development: Institutions that make governments more inclusive favor economic progress and factors that make governments more exclusive inhibit prosperity. Growth-enhancing policies likely to please the citizenry include policies that ensure the …
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“Impact is our true North”: a relational approach to the global distribution of U.S. foundations’ philanthropic gifts
… relation to other sets of actors: the agendas of development institutions and foreign governments; the presence of potential grantee organizations; and the behavior of peer foundations. In doing so, foundations may ultimately shy away from funding those causes and organizations whose needs are …
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Analyzing the influence of financing and governance on cross-sector social partnerships (CSSPs) value creation. A key focus on CSSPs involved in water sustainability in South Africa
… from the study include grant funding from development institutions and private sector companies was identified as the main source of funding for CSSPs; there is a shift from partnership funding to project-based funding in CSSPs involved in water sustainability as the funders preferences …
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Effect of transaction costs on international remittance flows from developed countries: A Sub-Saharan context
… study tested the first hypothesis that financial development, banking concentration and financial risk of a migrant's home country influence transaction costs. Secondly, the study tested the hypothesis that transaction costs have a negative relationship with remittance inflows into the countries. …
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Institutions, Government, and Development
After an introductory chapter on growth, development, institutions, and transition, this thesis presents three chapters on how institutions, government's policy priorities and policy responses affect economic development. Chapter II explores how various institutions are related to each other, what …
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Institutions, Government, and Development
After an introductory chapter on growth, development, institutions, and transition, this thesis presents three chapters on how institutions, government's policy priorities and policy responses affect economic development. Chapter II explores how various institutions are related to each other, what …
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Configuring Local Resilience to Coastal Erosion in Togo
… conversation with public policy on resilient development.</p>
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Making the Maasai Schoolgirl: Developing Modernities on the Margins
… Project). This delegation defined The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the primary set of metrics that serve as benchmarks against which development, the world over, is to be measured. Of these eight goals, one focuses specifically on education and four relate to women and girls’ …
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