Labour migration has been hailed by the Philippine government administrations as saving the depressed economy and policies had been channeled towards the economic benefits reaped from this phenomenon. However, the experiences of workers disclose the risks and social costs that c…
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The growing engagement of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in humanitarian crises has been largely uncontested in the post-Cold War era. This expanded presence has been particularly apparent in the international response to the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where more than…
Both highly developed and developing countries share the common problem of how to maximize the health and welfare of their populations within a context of ever-tighter budgets for public health expenditures. In such situations, it becomes crucial for governments to identify effe…
Indonesia's national school feeding program (SFP), launched in 1996, represented an innovative approach to school feeding involving Multiple participants and beneficiaries in community-based implementation. In 1997/98 Indonesia was struck by Asia's economic crisis that raised fe…
This thesis attempts to detail and analyze the key factors in applying an affordable housing strategy in Trinidad and Tobago. The question that is posed is, “how can the affordable housing strategy of Trinidad and Tobago be improved?” A political and economic history of Trinidad…
The main purpose of this study was to provide a basis for and facilitate the development of strategies and programs based on actual life experiences of the refugee families and their children and on present needs and resources in the Kitchener-Waterloo community. The participant…
Cette recherche avait pour objectif d'évaluer la contribution des mutuelles à l'amélioration de l'accessibilité aux soins de santé pour les populations surtout pauvres, à travers leur mode de fonctionnement, la disponibilité et l'accessibilité des soins offerts. Elle porte sur d…
This thesis analyzes the schools project for child garment workers under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the International Labour Organization, UNICEF, and the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association. The MOU schools project is viewed as an exa…
The first chapter explains the magnitude of human suffering from the intifada in the Palestinian Territories. Large numbers of people were killed during the intifada and most of them were in their productive years. The Israeli military incursions and policy of closures increased…
Mortality and morbidity rates in developing countries are dominated by infectious and parasitic diseases, mainly excreta-related. Policy makers in developing countries have relied heavily on oral rehydration therapies, with a relative neglect of other approaches, including inves…
Men living in a shelter was examined from the perspective of the individual. The research encompasses three main areas: (1) attribution of causes which lead to homelessness, (2) the homeless' own definition of their situation, and (3) the subjects' future plans relating to their…
This thesis is a qualitative analysis of the Winnipeg Credit Circle program from a feminist perspective. The Credit Circle program is a Community Economic Development (CED) strategy, based on the peer lending model developed by the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. The program compris…
How do poor rural households in Bangladesh deal with bad weather, floods, and other idiosyncratic income shocks? Do existing social institutions help poor households smooth their consumption by mitigating these shocks? Does the existing rural social structure call for special po…
Aid and welfare agencies typically target transfers to the poor and attempt to exclude the rich. But checking whether an individual is rich or poor is costly. This dissertation proposes mechanisms that use local information to save on audit costs. A cross reporting mechanism ind…
The Indonesian government has long promoted development programs, including efforts to improve the health of the country's population. However, Indonesia's infant mortality rate is still much higher than those of neighboring countries, such as Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philipp…
This study explores the ways an international norm prescribing that states have a moral obligation to provide assistance to countries suffering from famine has shaped American foreign policy. This is accomplished through the detailed study of US humanitarian policy toward three …
This dissertation examines the politics of Ottoman welfare system and philanthropy during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876–909) and the Second Constitutional Period before World War I (1908–1914). The study first focuses on the Hamidian system of benevolence, a monarchica…
The dissertation explores the process of social reconstruction by women in a Bosnian community. It looks at how Bosnian women 'pick up the pieces' of their lives in the aftermath of a three and a half year war. The focus is on women's practices and survival strategies, and their…
Cigarette advertising has been a controversial issue that has been keenly debated among the interested groups such as the tobacco industry, politicians, government agencies, health groups and academicians. In recent years, the transnational tobacco corporations of the industrial…