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Browsing Masters Theses by Thesis (Discipline) "International Development Studies Program"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1999)In exploring the relationship between physical planning and national development objectives, the thesis of this study is formulated upon the premise that planning decisions must be factored into the development process in ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2000)The purpose of the study is threefold. Firstly, the study is intended to recognize the empowerment approach provided by the government of Indonesia to increase number of women's education attainment. Secondly, it is to ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1997)This thesis compares two world views represented on the one hand, by the modernization paradigm with its growth orthodoxy and on the other hand, by the ecological economics paradigm which advocates limits to growth. It ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2007)With a changing world order leaning gradually toward neo-liberal practices, fewer resources are being allocated for community development. More and more urban and rural communities are being told to take an increasingly ...
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An chua? (Have you eaten yet?) : assessing non-formal education for street youth in Hanoi, Vietnam (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2006)Many citizens of the developing world do not receive or have limited access to some of the most basic resources and of these citizens some of the most vulnerable are street youth. The numbers of youth on the street are on ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2004)In this study, I evaluate microfinance in regards to the role it plays in development. The essence of the newest debate in the field is on how to carry out microfinance so it is more effective. There are two approaches: ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)Emissions from greenhouses gases (GHGs), especially carbon dioxide (CO2), have driven anthropogenic climate change. In response, global policymakers have promoted carbon trading and its subset, carbon offsetting, as ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)The debate surrounding land reform is back on the development agenda with a consensus that the severe unequal distribution of land in developing countries is the main cause of persistent levels of poverty and inequality ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1994)It has been recognised that a number of health development projects and programmes have failed as a result of the unreflecting way in which community members have been left out of development processes and treated as mere ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1995)In El Salvador, the situation of the rural community is one of profound impoverishment and environmental deterioration, as a consequence of historical neglect by the state and twelve years of civil war. This has increased ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)As women micro-entrepreneurs in Ghana have been gaining increasing access to economic opportunities through community development initiatives focused on microenterprises, one would expect that this should enhance their ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2005)The search by most individuals in South Africa for a healthy sexuality comes with recognizing that HIV/AIDS is now the leading cause of death. As such, their lives, the relationships that they establish and their efforts ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)Inequality has been rising since China’s economic reform. This thesis analyzes inequality in terms of urban-rural income differences that caused by the combination work of global forces and national policies. In particular, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)This thesis examines the role that CSR plays in the relationship between mining and development and asks whether and (if so) how CSR works as a possible means of pacifying opposition to mining. The research focuses on a ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)Across the developing world, globalisation is forcing tremendous change on the economies and societies that it encounters; the small agricultural economies of the Caribbean are no exception. The globalisation of governance ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This thesis will examine the distribution of philanthropic corporate funds that are directed towards development projects. It assesses different strategies in which a corporation can choose to distribute its earmarked ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)Different countries have different priorities in their development approaches. For China, the precondition to development is social stability. This paper highlights, theoretically and empirically, how development and news ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)The sharp rise in global demand for biofuels and food has prompted widespread land grabbing in the Global South. In the case of Indonesia, it has prompted an unprecedented expansion of oil palm plantations that are expected ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1996)Modernization theorists in the 1960's designed the theory with basic tenets that implied development and progress. Though their major focus was on economic growth, subsequent socio-cultural and political development was ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1994)It is safe to speculate that there are numerous underlying obstacles facing breastfeeding women today, not just in North America, but globally. Factors, such as the socio-economic status, support, education, and the role ...
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