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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"socioeconomic development"”.
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National culture and socioeconomic development : the Venezuelan case
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1986.
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Land reform, regional planning and socioeconomic development in Brazil
In this dissertation, we examine the socioeconomic impact of land reform schemes and discuss the policy implications of combining aspects of both state-led and market-based approaches to land reallocation through regional planning. We focus on land reform settlements in Northeast Brazil, where both …
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Why Oil Production has a Negative Impact on Socioeconomic Development in Chad?
… condition that oil revenues would be invested in socioeconomic development projects. Furthermore, the World Bank emphasized that oil revenues should be used in a transparent and accountable matter.1 Oil production started in Chad in 2003 and brought billions of dollars to the government. …
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Using Multi-Source Data to Assess the Dynamics of Socioeconomic Development in Africa
… and rapid spatially explicit assessment of socioeconomic development is critical for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at both national and global levels. In the past decades, scientists have proposed many methods for monitoring human activities on the Earth’s surface on …
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Governance and socioeconomic development in Zambia : an analysis of survey data and development indicators
… relating to governance and changes in Zambia’s socioeconomic development. With the aid of survey data compiled by the World Bank’s Worldwide Governance Indicators, and perceptions of governance amongst Zambian citizens obtained from Round 5 of the Afrobarometer survey, this study used …
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The Role of National Social Security Fund to socioeconomic development in Tanzania; A case of Dar Es Salaam Region
… analysing the role of NSSF in the socio-economic development of Tanzania. The Data collected was analyzed by Frequencies and Multinomial Logistic Regression tools and hence the study findings were sorted and coded using SPSS software. The researcher used questionnaire as a tool of data collection. …
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Does income inequality reduce individual subjective wellbeing? A cross-national, multilevel analysis of 53 countries and nearly 80,000 individuals, 2008-2014
… a key potentially confounding variable, socioeconomic development and using appropriate multilevel techniques, demonstrating a null or positive relationship. Yet the issue demands further exploration because income inequality has soared recently and the Great Recession has thrown …
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Beyond the resource curse : mineral resources and development in Guinea-Conakry
Natural resource endowments are no guarantee of socioeconomic development. Many developing countries are rich in natural resources (minerals, oil, gas, hydropower), and yet many of their citizens remain in poverty and their economies have failed to grow; the "paradox of plenty". Despite its natural …
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The United Nations Fund For Population Activities: Changing The Direction Of The Total Fertility Rate In Developing Nations
… and services. Second, foreign aid, the level of socioeconomic development, and the extent of females’ education are all hypothesized to have negative relationships to TFR. That is, all else constant, as foreign aid increases, TFR is expected to decrease. All else constant, as the level of …
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Gender parity and the 'usual suspects' in South African education
… which, if scaled, can act as a catalyst for socioeconomic development. However, there are many gender inequality factors that prohibit girls from accessing and succeeding in educational pursuits. This report explores the South African example, looking specifically at the Cape Area Panel …
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The Famished Road: Oil Dependency and Socioeconomic Underdevelopment in the Niger Delta
… resources and its implication for the general socioeconomic development of the Nigerian State. It investigates the correlation between the broader issues of sociocultural sovereignty, representation of ethnic minorities in the body politic and infrastructural development of the country. …
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Structures Strike Back: Their Significance for Our Models of Opinion Formation
… by engaging with the structural impact of socioeconomic development on elite directed opinion formation at the individual level in MENA countries. I use survey data collected by three waves of the Arab barometer between 2010 and 2016 to show that socioeconomic development reverses the …
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Patterns of elite-mass conflict in Soviet-type systems: 1948-1989
… argues that shifts in the levels of a country's socioeconomic development and enduring social cleavages will, in large part, account for the specific types of collective action (legal, extra-legal, illegal) and elite response (accommodation, reform, repression).
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Implications of floodplain dynamics for reservoir operation
… scales but influences processes, such as socioeconomic development, that occur over much longer time scales and in turn feedback to influence reservoir decisions. Recent and ongoing progress in understanding coupled social-hydrological systems provides a path to begin pro-actively managing …
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The interaction between public procurement policies and international investment agreements: challenges and legal implications in Kenya and South Africa
… in their public procurement framework to promote socioeconomic development of their nationals.
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Gender Inequality and Terrorism: An Analysis of the Effects of Socioeconomic Gender Inequality on Terrorism
… to drive the phenomenon. Authors often tie socioeconomic development to reducing terrorism. Among structural explanations of terrorism, however, authors generally neglect the effect of gender inequality, though studies show that gender inequality increases the risk of international and civil …
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A Tainted Opportunity: Palestinian Practitioners Navigating Development Work in Occupied Jerusalem
… Jerusalemites who work for an Israeli-led socioeconomic project relate to their role within a racialised development apparatus. Specifically, it discusses the tensions that shape the social lives of young Palestinian workers from Jerusalem (aged 23-35), situated within broader structural …
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A strategic vision of AVCS maglev and its socioeconomic implications
… assessing economic viability, and determining socioeconomic impacts of the system. Also, the National Development Model (NDM) is developed and analyzed to obtain a deeper understanding of the rational policy formation about the U.S. SOCioeconomic development of the next century, based on the …
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