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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"political empowerment"”.
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Technology-enabled political empowerment
Political participation and community involvement in the United States have declined steadily and significantly over the past four decades, and some attribute the fall to new media, such as television and the Internet. This thesis is a study of new technologies and their impact on political and …
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Essays in Economic Development and Political Empowerment
… 2: Do the poor revolt? A study on Income and Political Freedom in the context of the Egyptian Revolution. The study revisits the income-political freedom connection using data from Egyptian nationals in 2008, The study investigates the relationship between an individual's income level and …
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Utilizing mass media in the political empowerment of Egyptian women
… This is done by interviewing female members of political parties, NGOs and a governmental women’s organization, as well as using archival research to analyze the information available in the publications of these organizations. Other methods employed in this study are critical discourse analysis …
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Racial Threat, Black Empowerment, and Civilians Killed by Police: An Analysis of the Largest US Cities in 2015
… This study examines how Black demographic and political empowerment, as well as policy comprehensiveness impact killing rates of civilians. Findings suggest that greater Black demographic and political empowerment are associated with reductions in killings rates for Blacks as well as for Whites …
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Women Empowerment Through Self-Selected Groups: The Case of LAPO Microfinance Bank Ltd.
In contemporary times, the concept of women empowerment has become an issue of key importance in the development discourse across the world. Studies on the impact of microfinance on women empowerment has shown conflicting results- with some studies presenting empirical evidence of its positive …
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On Education and Social Power: The Educational Theories of W.E.B. Du Bois and Their Relevance to African -Centered Education
… the impetus towards cultural, economic, and political empowerment. Moreover, his theory of education anticipates key themes within the African-Centered paradigm of education as it emerges in the late 20th century.
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Microfinance and women empowerment in Bangladesh: Impact in economic, social and political dimensions.
… services on women’s economic, social and political empowerment in Bangladesh. Microfinance is alternative financial services for poor people, predominantly for women as they are more poverty-stricken and discriminated in Bangladesh. These services are more likely to be flexible than formal …
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The Volunteers 1778-1793: Iconography and Identity
… to 1793 represent one of the most widely studied political and military movements of eighteenth century Ireland. The Volunteers were undoubtedly of central importance to the political life of this period, but were also of great significance to the tradition of amateur military service in Ireland, …
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Women's Political Participation in China
… in politics. However, the development of women's political participation in China lags behind women's political participation in Western countries. In the Chinese political field, public positions tend to be gendered, and the authority of female officials is marginalized. In this paper, I examine …
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Impact of the level of women participation in the workforce on economic growth in Kuwait
… of Population Growth, Exports, Human Capital, Political Empowerment, and Technology) significantly affect the women level in the Kuwaiti workforce, which in turn affects the dependent variable (Kuwaiti economic Growth).
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Decentralization, Democracy and Development : Examining the potential and limits of subnational empowerment
… set of interrelated economic, social, and political variables, an important conclusion has been that sustainable and inclusive development requires not only economic and social policies, but also political empowerment to foster a deliberative and participatory development process. The state …
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The Effect of the Sunni-Shi'a Conflict in Shaping Arab Countries' Response to the Shi'a Crescent and a Nuclearizing Iran
… and a revolutionary Shi'a Iran. Sunnis have politically dominated every country in the region, except non- Arab Iran, since their initial victory over the Shi'as in the 7th century. However, Shi'as rose to power in place of Sunnis within an Arab country for the first time in Arab-Islamic …
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Interpreting Racial Politics: Black and Mainstream Press Web Site Tea Party Coverage
… journalists interpreted the tea party and black political empowerment, and the degree of racial implicitness in the discourse. To my knowledge, no work has coupled resonant myth with racial implicit frames while analyzing online media discourse in the mainstream and the black press. While many …
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Capacity development for local participation in community based natural resource management of Namibia : the #Khoadi //Hôas conservancy experience
… they enhance local participation by promoting political empowerment, trust, ownership, and positive attitude towards living with wildlife. However, if such conditions are not met, local participation is reduced, while intra-community conflicts from marginalization to nepotism and members’ …
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Sustainability, Empowerment, and Resident Attitudes toward Tourism: Developing and Testing the Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale (RETS)
… constructs of psychological, social, and political empowerment and developing them into reliable and valid measurement scales. After validation, the three sub-scales were tested in a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), which demonstrated them to be construct valid based upon tests of …
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Exploring the influence of interest free microfinance programmes on empowerment of the participating women borrowers in Pakistan : an interpretative inquiry
… the influence of interest free microfinance on empowerment of the women borrowers, which is one of the two main objectives of microfinance interventions. This study has also highlighted that extant microfinance literature has ignored the contextual and subjective nature of women empowerment in …
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Essays in Labor and Development Economics
… in India.</p> <p>In the first chapter, "Political Inclusion and Educational Investment," I investigate whether political empowerment can affect the human capital investment decisions of children. By using exogenous variation in the implementation of the policy, nationally-representative …
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Critical examination of the ethics in research involving Indigenous peoples
… that impede Indigenous Peoples' social and political empowerment and the ethical issues revolving around such scholarship. The objective of this thesis is to uncover the assumptions, motivations, and values of Western research and scholarship involving Indigenous Peoples. The research …
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The Dawning of the Black New South: A Geo-Political, Social, and Cultural History of Black Atlanta, Georgia, 1966-1996
… is a City representing the highest educational, political, and economic aspirations and achievements of African Americans over the past century and yet home to some of the roughest and most destitute black ghettos in the South and nation. As such it represents various interconnections and …
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Reframing citizenship by decentralizing development under India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
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