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Browsing Theses & Dissertations by Thesis (Discipline) "International Development Studies Program"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)In an era where "partners" for development is a common buzzword among the development community, levels of interaction and coordination between stakeholders are measurements for evaluating the collaboration efforts of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1998)Existing data for Economic, Social and Environmental indicators are analysed. Costs for these indicators are defined and discussed. Cost estimates are provided for all three sets of indicators. This framework is used to ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1994)This thesis examines the politico-economic and legal structures surrounding the informal sector, and the effect these structures have on the organizational potential of workers in this sector. A case study of a particular ...
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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, 2019)Uganda has what is widely regarded by the international community to be a progressive approach to refugee management, outlined in the state’s 2006 Refugee Act which provides refugees with the right to land, free movement, ...
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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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