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This thesis examines the primary principles of Japan's development assistance - jijo, meaning self-help. Japan's development assistance is most commonly presented as economic cooperation, and much less is understood about its social and human development programmes at the commun…

This thesis looks at the nature and evolution of communal responses to socio-economic problems in imperial Italy and Gaul. Ancient analysis of this topic tended to view any popular expression of discontent as the result of the moral failings of the plebs, or, somewhat more gener…

SSCB’nin dağılması ile birlikte toprak alanın küçülmesi, nüfusun azalması ve önemli askeri ve ekonomik altyapıların toprak dışında kalması nedeniyle eskisine nazaran zayıf kalan ve uluslar arası alanda “büyük güç” statüsünü kaybeden Rusya önemli iç problemlerin yanı sıra dış pol…

There have been many studies conducted on the topic of Idir – a self-help traditional association in Ethiopia that supports families financially, materially and emotionally in a time of bereavement. The origins have been debated and how it will evolve in the coming decades has b…

Over the last several decades, the practices and philosophy of Sufi mystics from former Soviet Republics Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have spread into Russian society, and from there to much of Eastern Europe. Through the efforts of individuals such as Mirzakarim Sanakulovich Norbe…

Despite searching for work under similar economic conditions, white-collar unemployed workers in Israel and the United States engage in different job search practices, and ultimately come to distinctive subjective understandings of their difficulties in finding work: Israelis ul…