The health services and programs promoting the well-being of adolescent girls as described in international declarations, covenants and conventions that have been signed by countries around the world are not available to most young women. A feminist cultural studies approach is …
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Al-Habalah Village is located in the Asir region of southwestern Saudi Arabia. The villagers were relocated to King Faisal Model Village in late 1979. The main objectives of this study were to: (1) identify the reason for relocation; (2) assess the outcome of relocation in terms…
This thesis is an investigation of the perceived causes and consequences of the drug abuse on the rural community of Khorog in MBAP, Tajikistan. The problem of drug abuse in Khorog developed to a considerable extent since the 1990's following the collapse of the Soviet Union and…
This study makes an assessment of the needs of the Bangladeshi families living in New York City, with mentally retarded (MR) relatives, and gathers information about the services currently available for them. Recently there has been a significant increase of Bangladeshi people i…
The Villa Prototype Campaign, sponsored by the Ministry of Public Works and Housing and managed by the Real Estate Development Fund in Saudi Arabia, will house more than 15,000 families by its completion date of 1997. This study investigated the success of the only occupied deve…
This research provides a comprehensive analysis of Arab countries barriers to intra-regional imports. In view of the Pan-Arab Free Trade Area (PAFTA) liberalization initiative, it assesses welfare gains and losses, terms of trade benefits to domestic producers, the impact on tar…
This study measured and compared the perception of consumer satisfaction with primary health care at the existing conventional health system and the family practice system in the State of Kuwait. Weber's bureaucratic theory was employed to explain the varying levels of consumer …
There are several Community Art Programs in the United States. These art programs often provide after-school and weekend art activities, for youngsters living within the neighborhoods where they are located. This dissertation discusses how a Community Art Program influences the …
A survey aimed at assessing the nutritional impact of resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) was conducted in Northern Iraq between July and November 2000. The sample consisted of 301 households in the collective town of Dyana, representing the IDPs, and 282 househo…
This dissertation explains the recent transformation of the Turkish welfare system, in which income-based social assistance policies have supplanted employment-based social security policies. This transformation is part of a global neoliberal turn which has replaced the welfare …
Ethiopia is an old agrarian society endowed with a skilled and hard-working peasantry that carries a rich fund of agricultural knowledge. Yet Ethiopian peasants have been the main victims of the cyclical droughts and famines. Recurring famines helped to bring about the 1974 revo…
This study undertakes a quantitative investigation of the distributional and welfare consequences of a sharp reduction in inflation in a small open economy. In the first chapter, a monetary model of a small open economy with uninsured idiosyncratic earnings risk is analyzed. In …
This dissertation is a study of welfare services provided to Algerian migrants in France from the end of World War II through the Algerian War. The brutal war ending in Algerian independence in 1962 fell in the midst of thirty years of French industrialization fueled by the arri…
Research with several species has demonstrated that individual differences in behavior or temperament influence behavior, well-being and economically important characteristics such as meat quality. In particular, differences in fearfulness are related to feather pecking in layin…
The dissertation examines the relief operations by private American philanthropic organizations among Ottoman Greek refugees who were forced to migrate from Turkey to Greece in the aftermath of World War I. The American humanitarian organizations, namely the American Red Cross, …
The United States signed the Universal Declaration on December 10, 1948. Today, it is referred to as customary international law. It consists essentially of three sets of rights: civil and political; economic, social, and cultural; and solidarity. By examining relevant social th…
The success of an administrative tool like decentralization is helped by the presence of certain key political and administrative factors. These indicate to what degree a government is committed to decentralization, and how effective its operationalization might be. In order to …
The project, using the world culture theory, explores how modern international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) which provide humanitarian charitable relief assistance have enacted, innovated, and adapted to changes in the broader world culture over the past half century. …