This is a research case study of an International Higher Education Partnership (IHEP) between Vanguard University of Southern California (VUSC) and the University of Duhok (UoD) in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq funded by the British Council DelPHE-Iraq project targeting …
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The first essay, entitled “Sectoral Adjustment Costs and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics in a Two-Sector Dependent Economy,” investigates dynamics of real exchange rates in a two-sector model with both capital accumulation and capital reallocation. Instead of choosing one of the ext…
This document analyses economical convergence in Africa by using the real PIB per capita like measure of income per capita. The study considers all African countries, except Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Liberia, Libya, Mayotte, Reunion, Sao Tome and Principe and Somalia…
This thesis examines the role of human capital in the growth and convergence of the Iberian countries. Using a newly computed series for human capital at the NUTS III level for the Portuguese regions, the comparison between Portugal and Spain suggests a positive role for human c…
This thesis examines the determinants of institutional quality and the process of convergence in the ECOWAS in order to inform policy about the region's deep integration scheme. The first part of the thesis examines the historical changes that took place in the development of co…
In common with other countries India has been drawn into a global trend of standardising national accounting practices with international norms to enhance its ability to attract inward foreign investment and gain increased access to global capital markets. In 2004, India committ…
Much of the theoretical literature on corruption and economic growth suggests that corruption harms growth, yet the empirical literature is ambiguous. One highly cited paper, Mauro (1995), estimates that corruption has a moderately harmful effect on growth, yet once more recentl…
This dissertation examines Uighur family change in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uighur. Autonomous Region, during the period from the founding of the Peoples' Republic of China in 1949 to the present. I argue that the process of Uighur family change among the educated urbanit…
The unifying theme of this dissertation is spatial inequality, or regional disparities, driven by two primary motivations. First, spatial inequality can contribute to the overall inequality across households or individuals. Second, spatial inequality can jeopardize the fabric of…