The coast of Bangladesh, comprising the complex delta of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river system has immense resources for development. In the concept of present development efforts, this zone is among the most neglected in Bangladesh. It is very often affected by natural cal…
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Since the time of Aristotle, scholars of politics have contemplated the betterment of the welfare of human kind. Building on the traditional and often conflicting views of human welfare attainment, this dissertation seeks to expand understanding of how the human condition is det…
This dissertation explores the goals of Jesuit missionary activity and the organizations through which those goals were achieved by focusing on three of the first Jesuit confraternities founded in the 1540s in Rome. These confraternities administered houses for reformed prostitu…
Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust reveal interweaving tensions of universality and particularity in the Exodus and Sinai events. They express the universality of God's concern for all people and the particularity of God's covenant with the chosen people of Israel. Wh…
This dissertation advances this literature on health care demand in lower income nations on several fronts. The first essay focuses on multinomial provider choice. It begins with a theoretical model where consumers make discrete choices among health care facility alternatives in…
Estimating the value of preventing an episode of illness is a valuable part of the information base supporting the design and assessment of disease control policies and programs. This research measures the value people place on preventing malaria in themselves and members of the…
Observers of the Nigerian transition to civilian rule accused the Nigerian media early in the transition of playing the “politics of confusion” in the country for undermining their role as the voice of the common people and the watchdog of government. They supported their view b…
This study investigates the impact of infant and child mortality on fertility level in Niger. In the first part of the study, proportional hazards models are used to assess the relative risk of having a birth in one and two year intervals. The main results are, first, that at an…
This research examines the living arrangements and social support of older persons in Egypt. Traditionally, social support of the elderly is the responsibility of the family, and especially the children. Continuing declines in fertility and mortality levels are contributing to t…
Treatment of emotionally disturbed children in the least restrictive environment, usually interpreted as the child's home, is consistent with current federal and state child welfare policy and professional social work practice because treating children outside the home is very c…
An exploratory study was conducted to determine the level of knowledge of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and its resulting disease, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), among students at Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. Purposive sampling was used and the…
This study is designed to examine the impact of riverine hazards and displacement upon displacees, both males and females, in Bangladesh. The specific objectives of the study are to: (a) determine the magnitude of psychological distress associated with riverine hazards and displ…
The purpose of the study was to determine if, how, and to what degree the Niger Community Center and its Inter-organizational Relationships (IORs) elicited community participation in program decision making. The research used the qualitative methodology, specifically interviews,…
Current Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation (DPM) best practices stress the importance of integrating political, economic, social and institutional vulnerability reduction measures into ongoing development work. Disaster reduction measures should therefore be multi sectoral and…
In most Sub-Saharan African countries, reliance on government financing for health care services has become increasingly untenable due to the fiscal crisis of the African state. International assistance for such services has also fallen since the global recession of the eighties…
This research examines the hierarchy of values that has operated in the modernization histories of Africa, with Ethiopia and Tanzania as case studies. Particular focus will be on analyzing the status that has been given to accessibility to food, and how African leadership has de…
This Dissertation looks at the interactive relationship between welfare transfers, income distribution, and political stability. The main question is whether welfare transfers tend to reduce income inequality, while they enhance political instability, controlling for critical de…
Liberation and critical theories of education believe in the political nature of all types of education. ‘The school’ in the third world is ‘oppressive’ because it creates and perpetuates ‘western-style’ class hierarchies. As such, nothing good will be secured at the marginalize…
This case study analyzes the process of policy formulation in Israel's water domain during a ten-year period of policy impasse (1990–2000) and the following two years of initial policy change. 1990–2000 was a crucial period in Israel's water sector. The chronic regional water sh…