This study examines the effects of both current and past Sudanese government policies regarding Islamization and Arabization on the roles and status of Nuban women. Societal ills that have resulted from the war such as slavery, discrimination, displacement and rape are discussed…
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This dissertation is concerned with measuring of the effects of trade policy changes in oligopolistic differentiated product markets. At the heart of the dissertation is a structural partial equilibrium model of the Turkish automobile industry. This model belongs to the class of…
This dissertation explored the Sudanese civil conflict from 1969 to 1985, focusing on the role played by the leadership in the resumption of civil conflict in 1983 between the people of southern Sudan and the government of Sudan. The analytical process focused on leadership-rela…
This study investigates the forecast experiences of the western and central provinces of Canada during the period 1971 to 1996. It discusses the issue of informational efficiency and the behavioural approach to revenue forecasting. The study is undertaken (a) to assess the forec…
This field project promotes the viewpoint that opportunities created by globalization can be actualized when there are sound policies and institutions to promote technology adoption and nurture communities of knowledge. Pervasive use of technology will result in faster economic …
The purpose of this dissertation is to describe and analyze how drama television content is managed in Malaysia. By looking at the production process of local drama television programming, this study examines the interactions among the three major players—the Barisan Nasional re…
Indonesian palm oil producers are potentially effected by six factors. These six factors are: (1) changes in domestic palm oil sales and competition for hectarage from other domestically produced crops; (2) international demand for and supplies of palm oil and its substitutes; (…
To become an independent nation after the Soviet Union's collapse, the ruling Kazakh elite and Kazakh language medium school administrators struggle to restore ethnic nationality consciousness, consolidate the Kazakhs' political power at the government and school levels, and imp…
This thesis is the first critical examination of the Canadian government's decision-making in relation to its contributions of troops to the Somalia peace operations in 1992. An international assistance effort was mounted because all government in Somalia had collapsed, and the …
What is the object of elections, and what are their objects? By carefully documenting the production of democracy on the one hand, and the things that democracy produces and normalizes on the other hand, this dissertation argues that through international intervention and apolit…
Collaboration between faith-based organizations and local governments provides an opportunity for projects to be fulfilled when budgets fall short of meeting all of a community's demands. Concerns arise, however, regarding the working relationships of government entities and fai…
Medicaid is a joint federal-state health insurance program targeting the low-income population. The program covers nearly 20% of Americans and accounted for 592 billion in 2017. Medicaid was originally introduced in 1965 as an optional program without mandatory financial eligibi…
This dissertation presents three essays on the relationship between technology adoption, government intervention and total factor productivity growth. In the first essay, we examine the relationship between investment in human capital and technology adoption decisions of entrepr…
This study will explore the factors that led Aziz Sidky, Minister of Industry under Jamal Abd al-Nasser's regime (1954–1970), to turn development of Egypt's metallurgical industries from an economic undertaking into what became essentially a political one. The early part of the …
The impact of the turnover tax and the value-added tax systems on resource allocation and international trade is examined when intermediate goods are introduced into a general equilibrium model. The value-added tax allows tax credit on sales tax paid on intermediate good while t…
This dissertation explores evidence and provides insight to secrecy-related information actions that can and are sometimes used as a method to circumvent established government policy and law. These information actions may also be used to cover up such circumventions after the f…
This dissertation involves a content analysis of public discussion by government officials involved in the debate over the use of force against Iraq. Elite participants in government made public announcements to justify policy positions to constituents, educate interested partic…
Since the end of the Cold War, the United Nations and Western states have responded to severe internal crises of conflict-ridden territories by intervening and directly managing their internal affairs with the purported aim of strengthening state capacity. In some instances, ext…
Literature of participatory democracy in STS has reached a point where most works are either speculation from specific academic theory traditions or they focus on one small technology or policy that is isolated from the larger context. This work aims to move beyond this, by prov…