The concept of microfinance is based on the assumption that given a reasonable period of time, poverty can be considerably reduced if poor people are given access to capital and guided properly in implementing and managing income generating business enterprises. The main objecti…
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This study examines a recent policy proposal that as a way out of poverty, third world countries should reform their present land policy to incorporate a cadastral system. The proponents of this policy reform have argued that the poorest nations of the world require formalizatio…
In this thesis, I examine associations between measures of intimate partner violence and sexual behaviors, particularly behaviors that increase the risk of infection with HIV or another sexually transmitted infection (STI), including failing to use condoms, having multiple sexua…
The aim of our research is to study the changing dynamics of poverty and solidarity in the context of economic crisis in the capital city of Dakar. It is based on qualitative data and a theoretical framework primarily founded on the emergent "sociology of the new African individ…
This research will identify consequences, intended and unintended related to international service-learning on the partner organizations in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The literature focuses heavily on impacts on students participating in the experience or impacts on universities. This …
After traveling to a small country in West Africa last summer, I became interested in learning more about the maternal, infant, and child death rates of that particular region of the continent. For the purposes of this paper I limited the number of countries that would be includ…
This study investigates how the different ideological interpretations of the principle of neutrality affect the practices of humanitarian aid organizations in conflict situations. Specifically, I study the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Médicins Sans Frontiè…
This thesis attempts to explain the sources for failures in the humanitarian aid system. It breaks down humanitarian relief into two main categories, that of aid during natural disaster and that in complex emergency. In order to better understand the field of humanitarian aid th…
The study investigated Nigerians' overall attitudes toward people with disabilities, attitudes toward employment and people with disabilities, attitudes toward living arrangements and people with disabilities, and attitudes toward people with mental disabilities and other groups…
This dissertation looks at the relationship between agro-food markets, social networks and welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa. Economists have long recognized the importance of information for the efficient functioning of markets. Due to limited or costly information, excess price di…
Scholarly attention on the global progress and measurement of democratic consolidation has recently included assessing the experience of the African states. Yet, more than a decade after the third wave of global democratization broke in Africa's shore there is still a dispute ov…
This thesis examines the transformation of informal housing settlements, namely the gecekondus (squatters) of Turkey. The occupation of public land and the construction of illegal housing units by the immigrants have served to protect the livelihood of the society and maintain i…
This dissertation investigates how wartime stressors are related to the physical and emotional health of post-war Persian Gulf veterans and explores the ways in which these war stressors, social location, demographic factors and personal resources jointly relate to the adjustmen…
The primary purpose of this dissertation is to assess the extent to which household characteristics and behaviours exert their effects both directly and indirectly on childhood mortality through the more proximate factors that can be measured within the context of society. A chi…
This study investigates the determinants of motivation which result in voluntary participation in screening programs for the detection of the Tay-Sachs Disease (TSD) carrier trait. Participants (n = 2856) had been screened in ten Massachusetts health-based facilities over a nine…
The objective of this dissertation is to examine the agricultural trade policies of Turkey and determine the impact of various relevant policy scenarios on the welfare and distribution of income within the agricultural sector as well as between producers and consumer groups. The…
This project is a comparative study of late industrialization in two classic cases of "statist" industrialization, India and Turkey. The research uses social services as an analytic lens to examine the shifting social bases of economic change and to elucidate the varied mechanis…
This Thesis explores the welfare response to wife abuse in the Muslim community of Metropolitan Toronto by employing a qualitative interviewing methodology. The Thesis identifies the need to conduct qualitative sociological research to properly understand and respond to the chal…
This study reviews the policy and practice of Islamic social welfare efforts in Indonesia. Findings from this study suggest that Indonesian Islamic welfare policies are ambivalent. The ambivalent character is due, in part, to the need of the government to maintain the status of …