Este estudo visa avaliar os riscos relacionados com as alterações climáticas em diferentes cenários, principalmente os riscos de se tornar num sistema financeiro sustentável, impulsionado pelo acordo de Paris, metas europeias e agendas estratégicas locais. Bem como avaliar a lim…
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Despite increasing changes in the business environment, the results of the studies reveal that management accounting systems do not change or change at a much slower rate than expected. This failure has raised much debates at the topic of management accounting research during th…
As restrições financeiras têm sido um tópico de pesquisa constante na literatura. Para micro e pequenas empresas o seu impacto é particularmente importante, considerando a sua dependência de crédito para sobreviver. Estas empresas são responsáveis por grande parte do dinamismo d…
This thesis investigates the effects of income inequality on Total Factor Productivity (TFP). The thesis also aims at empirically exploring the specific channels through which those effects transit. To this end, two levels of empirical analysis are carried out with time series c…
Malnutrition and infectious diseases among preschoolers feature prominently among the major public health concerns in developing countries. Existing evidence tends to support the view that despite the dramatic improvement in human health in the past decades, the gap between rich…
This dissertation addresses a basic question of nonviolent, state-society interaction in the developing world: under what conditions do nascent civil associations in non-democratic or semi-democratic contexts successfully lobby the state yet maintain their autonomy and avoid coo…
Grouping existing providers under a franchised brand, supported by training, advertising, and supplies, is a potentially important way of improving access and assuring quality to some types of clinical medical services. While franchising has great potential to increase service d…
Organizations are embedded in a multilevel institutional environment where institutions at each specific level do not necessarily have uniform impact on various functions of organizations. In other words, institutionalization should not be viewed as a macro process that only aff…
This dissertation will examine in detail the transmission of real economic growth from: (1) OECD countries to less developed countries (LDCs); (2) United States to Western Hemisphere LDCs; (3) Japan to East Asian LDCs; (4) United States to selected Western Hemisphere countries; …
Understanding macroeconomic fluctuations is vital for the enhancement of economic prospects for developing countries. Despite the fact that these countries might experience larger and more significant fluctuations than their developed counterparts, there exists a shortage of rel…
This research argues that the United States' version of the Least-Cost Planning (LCP) for electric power long-term development is insufficient to fully accommodate the problems associated with planning for this sub-sector in the Least-Developing Countries (LDC's). This insuffici…
This thesis consists of three essays that analyze issues of external shock, adjustment, finance and real exchange rates in a group of developing countries—Sudan, Egypt, Pakistan and the Philippines. The first essay, “External Shock, Non-Adjustment and Finance: The Experience of …
This study was to evaluate the development level of Clinical Engineering Departments (CEDs) in hospitals in developing countries. The method of data collection was a survey done by structured questionnaire sent by Email and Listserv. In total, 61 responses (9% response rate) wer…
This thesis has two objectives. The first is to analyse the consumption, saving and borrowing behaviour of agricultural households. Specifically, by using the permanent income hypothesis (PIH) as a theoretical framework, and secondary data sources, this thesis argues that consum…
The markedly different financial structures of firms in the developing and industrialized countries provide the motivation for this dissertation. What explains the financial structure choice of firms in developing countries? Many theories in Finance have been developed to explai…
When the resources in health sector are limited, the incorporation of sound epidemiological information into the decision process can promote efficient allocation of resources for development and provide a sound basis for evaluation of directed strategies for health care and dis…
Although the two essays included here focus on the economy of Lebanon, a country unique in the Middle East due to both its political and economic characteristics, the study is instructive even in the context of other developing economies. The first essay attempts to explain grow…
In this dissertation, I analyze the impact of employment with respect to real exchange rates in developing countries. Previous studies focus on only developed countries such as OECD countries. But country characteristics and industry characteristics in developing countries are v…
Developing countries and the poor within them (i.e., the other) receive scant attention in management and organization studies (MOS). The field, thus, suffers from both ethnocentric and class biases. This research effort seeks to reduce these biases, particularly in the conversa…