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Browsing Honours Theses by Thesis (Discipline) "International Development Studies Program"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been plagued with conflict as a result of an extensive history of political instability. As a result, many actors have attempted to respond to the conflict by engaging in ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)This thesis examines the therapeutic aspect of education that can be pivotal in the rehabilitation of refugee children. The focus of the research is on Turkey and the lack of attention that has been paid to the rehabilitative ...
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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, 2015)Conditional Cash Transfer (CCTs) programs are increasingly becoming the new face of poverty reduction in the global South. Often called a magic bullet, the most common goals of a CCT is to break the intergenerational cycle ...
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(Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.), 2019)This thesis focuses on poverty alleviation and development in Ethiopia related to Poverty Reduction Strategy Plans, the Millennium Development Goals, and to a lesser extent, the Sustainable Development Goals. Issues debated ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)One of the great challenges facing policy makers is finding effective strategies that contribute to active and sustainable economic development. As arguments and evidence cumulate against the efficiency of neoliberal regimes ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)The globe is rapidly urbanizing and over 1 billion people live in slums. These communities are characterized by their vulnerability to sudden economic shocks and other factors such as the environment. Around the world slums ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Since the Fast-Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in 2000, Zimbabwe has changed from being mostly maize self-sufficient to being dependent on maize imports to provide food for the country. The FTLRP is seen as largely to ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Water quality is a crucial element in ensuring a water-secure world. In many developing countries, poor quality or contaminated drinking water is a major source of water related illness, which leads to millions of preventable ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)This thesis examines the current inefficiencies in approaches towards global mental healthcare. The focus of this research is placed on the global community and their failure to adequately alleviate the suffering of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Starting approximately in the 1960s, large waves of migration from Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries - Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala - has resulted in a 'crisis' at the US Mexico border, where US border ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)The global market is incredibly interconnected and interdependent. However, massive inequalities in wealth and poverty exist throughout, with the richest 1% gaining 82% of the wealth produced last year, while the poorest ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)This thesis examines the relationship between collective remittance leveraging programs and community development in the Global South, with a focus on the case of Mexico’s 3x1 Program for Migrants. I will show that Mexico’s ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)Education and educational frameworks have been at the forefront of global initiatives as a transformative tool to combat women and girls‘ inequalities. This paper analyzes the relationship between pursuing a distributional ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Poverty alleviation has directly and indirectly played a major role in development theory and projects over time. In recent years, microfinance became a popular poverty alleviation tool, incorporated as part of the Poverty ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)Urbanization is irreversible and has proven to be the future of the world. What also comes in this process is the increasing number of the urban poor and growth of informal settlements as 1 in 4 people will be living in ...
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Patent law and international justice : making pharmaceuticals accessible to the underdeveloped world (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)An examination of the current system of intellectual property law and the application of the Rawlsian methodology of justice to evaluate the current pharmaceutical patent system. The Thesis then explores the Health Impact ...
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Remote sensing, GIS, & peri-urban settlements : the case of ger districts in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)The world is at the brink of an urban crisis. Several hundred million poor people will be born in nations throughout the global South by the middle of the century, mostly in impoverished urban communities in less developed ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Brazil is a massive country in both size and population, and is considered an economic and political leader in Latin America. However, it suffers from many development issues faced by other developing countries around the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Child marriage (CM) is understood to indicate marriages under the age of 18. Although it affects both boys and girls, it is predominantly girls that are married off at a young age and suffer more serious consequences. ...
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