In general, the Kurdish people, an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group in Iraq, have a positive attitude towards the English language, and English is more highly appreciated than Arabic. Since achieving autonomy in 1991, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) has taken some dramati…
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This thesis reveals how eleven years at war and thirteen years of economic sanctions followed by invasion and occupation led to the degeneration of Iraq's health infrastructure and the health of a nation. It further argues that waves of internal and external displacement, omnipr…
Spending on infrastructure accounts for several percentage points of gross world product, reflecting its perceived importance to growth and development. Previous literature has made limited progress in providing unbiased estimates of its impacts, or causal evidence about policy …
The U.S. Virgin Islands is experiencing an economic recession, manifested through social disorders such as abandoned and vandalized houses. Research points to social disorders and lack of community engagement as key factors inhibiting community development efforts. In order to s…
In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) education is widely understood to play a key role in promoting gender equality and economic empowerment. In the MENA region generally, and Egypt in particular, "early-marriage" is implicated as one of the main barriers to educational ac…
What can an indigenous Egyptian paradigm for social evolution that represents the composite of bio-cultural diversities of Egypt and multiple bio-regions within it look like? With such exploratory inquiry in mind, this dissertation research focuses on analyzing the practice of d…
This study examines the performance of the longitudinal media exposure measures used in the 1958 Passing of Traditional Societies in the Middle East by Daniel Lerner and the 1966 cross-sectional study of Causes and Consequences of Individual Change in Six Developing Countries by…
This dissertation is comprised of four distinct essays in the general fields of empirical development and transition economics. The first essay concerns poverty change in Indonesia over the period 1984–1996 and measures the extent to which poverty change is correlated with overa…
Documenting Development: Stories of Sanitation, Population and Information Technologies, uses short stories written by Rosa Maria Britton, Fionna Barr, Taufiq Ismail, Mahasweta Devi, Nadine Gordimer and Subcomandante Marcos as springboards to launch a detailed analysis of the ma…
International development nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) are a particularly good example of how transnational accountability commitments present challenges to producing credible accounts to diverse and at times competing stakeholder groups. This dissertation examines acco…
The expansion of financial services to the poor, now widely referred to as microfinance, quickly saw tremendous success in Bangladesh beginning in the 1970's and was exported to a number of other countries. For a time microfinance was spoken of as a panacea, in part because it i…
What causes different income levels and development paths among countries? This dissertation investigates the role of human capital in the process of development. In particular, this dissertation focuses on how human capital is formed, i.e. how altruistic parents make human capi…
During the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961), development became an essential part of the strategic vision of containment in the Middle East. In 1953, Eisenhower attempted to use a plan created by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United Nations c…
In just 30 years microfinance has transformed from a credit-based rural development scheme that has claimed to reduce poverty and empower poor women, to a 70 billion financial industry. In the process, the traditional NGO-led model has given way to commercialized institutions, r…
In northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina there was widespread overharvesting of the fisheries resources before the outbreak of war in 1992. Close to four years of war in the country put even greater pressure on the fisheries, mainly due to a lack of food and general lawlessness. I…
The criteria for assessing the success or failure of development process in Kuwait reside in determining the extent to which the development outcomes are successful in bringing more economic diversification and preparation for the anticipated non-oil future. The dissertation arg…
This dissertation examines the relationship between anthropology, international development, and tourism in the fieldwork space of anthropology. Attempts to transform international development and tourism into anthropological objects must recognize the place these practices inha…
This study probes the linkages between the institutional framework of an economy and the outcome of financial liberalization. It argues that institutions and institutional quality are crucial to avoiding the crises often precipitated by financial liberalization. This issue is ex…