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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"role of government"”.
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Female participation in research and development: the role of government and defense spending
… and development (R&D) institutions and the path of technological change in a specifically gendered way. Military considerations have long played a significant role in the development of science, technology, and industry. The large role played by military spending in shaping R&D has biased R&D …
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The role of government in housing in developing countries: The case of Egypt
… is a theoretical and empirical analysis of housing problems and policies in less developed countries using Egypt as a case study. It evaluates the Burns and Grebler model that associates levels of housing investments to level of economic development, levels of urbanization, and natural …
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The growth of cultural industry and the role of government : the case of Korea
The 21 st century is the age of culture. Cultural industry is rapidly internationalizing and a number of countries seeking a new source of economic growth are now turning their attention to cultural industries. In Asia, there is a phenomenon called the "Korean wave," which refers to the popularity …
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The Role of Government and Community in Supporting Street Children Access Education in Arusha City
This study investigated the role of government and local community in supporting street children access education in Arusha city. The study had three objectives: assess the effectiveness of the existing policies on the rights of children in assisting street children to access education on the …
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The Red River Flood Of 1997: The Role Of Government Agencies In The Flood Plain
<p>This study attempts to identify the roles of three federal agencies in the Grand Forks Flood of 1997. The three agencies were selected for the scope of their impact on the disaster as well as their impact on the community. The United States Army Corps of Engineers, National Weather Service, and …
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An analysis of the role of government in the locational decisions of Cambridge biotechnology firms
This dissertation examines the validity of what Prof. Noam Chomsky has referred to as the central role of the dynamic, entrepreneurial state sector in economic development. Through an examination of the role that government at three levels-local, state, and federal-has played in the locational …
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The drivers of foreign direct investment in telecommunications among developing countries : the role of government
During the late 1980s, globalization of the world's economies and technological development created the conditions for the expansion of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in telecommunications. This tendency has been further boosted by different economic reforms that countries have implemented, which …
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A THREE PART ESSAY ON THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES ON FIRM LEVEL INNOVATIVE CAPACITY A SYNTHESIS OF EFFECT, PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFITABILITY.
… contains three essay that look to the effect of innovations given a diverse set of measures. The purpose of the first chapter, which is divided into two levels, is two-fold. First, via a Probit model, we assess the effect subsidies have on firm level innovation and determine if these effects …
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Realignments of Doxa in U.S. American Politics: Tracing the Rhetorical Histories of Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama
This dissertation is a study of political realignment from a rhetorical perspective. Specifically, I use the lens of doxa to rhetorically explore how basic assumptions regarding the role of government shift over time, and how crisis narratives are used to usher in these doxastic transformations. I …
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Government Wage Policy, Wage Determination, and the Development Process: A Case Study of Tanzania
This is a study of the role of government wage policy (GWP) in economic development and labor market behavior with special reference to Tanzania. GWP includes not only direct action on wages, but legal and institutional changes which indirectly affect labor market processes and industrial relations.
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Investments in watershed services: understanding a new arena of environmental governance in the western United States
… managing freshwater resources are one of the most challenging and timely issues affecting the globe. In response to rising social and ecological complexities, decision makers are faced with designing new policies and programs to effectively govern water resources. This shift towards new …
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The influence of decentralisation on tourism development in decentralised rural communities
… and participation, financial mechanisms, and the role of government. This thesis examines the influence of decentralisation on tourism development in decentralised rural communities, focusing on the dimensions of power, finance, community empowerment, and participation. These dimensions, …
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The politics of scientific practice in Taiwan: the hepatitis B control program
… dissertation discusses the political dimensions of scientific practice in Taiwan from two perspectives: the social contingencies of scientific knowledge and the role of government in medical science. The history of Taiwanese hepatitis B control program from 1980 to 1993 provides a valuable case …
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Factors affecting public support of transportation policies : using an international survey and hybrid discrete choice modeling
… policy support? Detangling people's support of transportation policies is a way to understand public needs, to understand how the public evaluates and envisions the role of government in shaping the current as well as future urban transport system, and to anticipate difficulties of …
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Baptist environmentalisms : a comparison of American Baptist and Southern Baptist attitudes, actions and approaches toward environmental issues.
… during the critical second and third waves of environmental history. With the birth of the modern environmental movement as a logical starting point, Southern Baptist and American Baptist attitudes and actions concerning key environmental questions in American political and environmental …
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The impact of the Great War on a local community: the case of East Lothian
This is a study of the impact of the Great War on one local community - the Lowland Scottish county of East Lothian. The thesis examines the economic, social and political consequences of the war in the short term of the war years and in the longer perspective of the first pre-war decade. The …
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Is the conservation of classical liberal thought inherent in the doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
The thesis of this paper is that the conservation of classical liberal thought is inherent within the doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; I initially define the political concepts of classical liberalism and conservatism to determine a standard by which to measure the …
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Delinquency and default in ARMS: The effects of protected equity
This research takes advantage of the use of compulsory retirement savings to finance the purchase of housing in Singapore and the regulatory protection conferred to the savings used to conduct a natural experiment to investigate the role of government and the role of protected borrower equity in …
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Commercialisation of academic research: an evaluation of government and institutional commercialisation of academic research in Malaysia
Governments have realized the increasing importance of the role of universities play in creating and diffusing knowledge as part of the process of innovation. Similarly, universities are now recognised as the seed bed for business firm formation. This has led to the commercialisation of academic …
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William Colmer and the Politics of the New Deal Labor Legislation 1933-1940
… Roosevelt and his New Deal began to reshape the role of government in the United States. While the New Deal's efforts to combat the Great Depression proved popular in the beginning, by 1935 many congressmen, especially southerners, began to distance themselves from the administration's attempts …
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