L'objectif de la présente étude était d'évaluer les effets du programme Accès des Femmes Sénégalaises Aux Services Financiers (AFSSEF) sur les conditions de vie des femmes bénéficiaires, au regard de leurs problèmes socio-économiques, de leur statut social et de leur pouvoir au …
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This thesis is an examination of the discourse of four nongovernmental organizations which work in the area of Nigerian widows' rights. These organizations are Federacion International de Abogadas (International Federation of Women Lawyers), International Human Rights Law Group,…
This written thesis accompanies three television public service announcement spots. Two of the spots are 60 seconds and one of the spots is 45 seconds in length. I produced this public service television advertising campaign to highlight the issue of child illiteracy in Pakistan…
Alvin Ratz Kaufman was an Ontario-based industrialist, philanthropist, and eugenicist, active in the field of birth control from the early 1930s until the late 1970s. For almost fifty years, and concurrent with his domestic efforts, Kaufman promoted the delivery of birth control…
This dissertation extends the ancient Hebrew and Christian ethic of hospitality to vulnerable strangers. The dissertation develops a mutually critical correlation between the fact of the Christian ethical centrality of hospitality and the contemporary situation of geographical a…
The problem of this study is to rate the perceptions of ex-participants on the effectiveness of the National Youth Service Corps of Nigeria. The purpose is to provide a research base for determining the operational effectiveness of the NYSC. Six hypotheses were formulated to tes…
The dissertation is a study of a major and complex problem of our time: drought and famine compounded by the civil strife in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian-Eritrean war. Without studying the nationality movements in Ethiopia and the war of liberation in Eritrea, one can hardly grasp…
This thesis examines the issues raised by the promulgation of an explicit population policy in Nigeria, a country characterized by immense ethnic, religious, economic and socio-cultural diversity. The thesis addresses the question of whether there can be an equitable population …
This study is a sociological analysis of anti-drug legislation during the last one hundred years within the United States. Anti-drug legislation is explored with regard to specific substances, as well as in general, and compared to anti-drug legislation of today. The conflict pe…
Since the early 1970s the Government of Morocco (GOM) has used consumer price subsidies to transfer income to the poor and to keep urban wages poor. The fiscal crisis the subsidies has engendered has led to pressure for their removal. This thesis uses a demand model with a funct…
Ethiopian famine and relief during 1984-1986 are analyzed by contrasting the postures of donor and recipient governments. Propositions from the dependency paradigm are assessed, examining predictions of food power, normative and diplomacy theories through Ethiopian food policy, …
This study examines the impact of rural or local radio broadcasting on the health practices of rural communities in Oyo State of Nigeria, with particular reference to the communities that have direct and easy access to Radio O-Y-O on-the-Move. The focus is on determining the dif…
The scarcity and inaccessibility of land in urban areas has become a major obstacle in the provision of housing to low-income groups in developing countries. This thesis studies the land policies and practices in Metropolitan Kano, Nigeria, and investigates the issues and proble…
Probably one of the most salient phenomena in the modern history of Saudi Arabia is the emergence and dramatic expansion of its welfare state. In the course of a half century, it has become an integral part of the institutional framework of that nation. It accounts for more than…
It is predicted that the poverty population may be composed solely of women and their children by the year 2000. Given that womens' caregiving work is critical to society this thesis asks how it is that income support policies apparently support these households more poorly than…
The major purpose of this study was to identify the predictors of the course of disability in schizophrenics in four countries during the two years following a first time diagnosis of the disorder. The study cohorts in Mannheim, Khartoum, Ankara and Sofia consisted of persons pa…