Given the amount of electrical consumption associated with living in contemporary society, renewable energy technologies that offer a distributed and cost effective means of generating electricity need to be further developed and researched. Small wind turbines have the capacity…
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Corporate reporting has evolved in scope from purely financial accounting and reporting in the past to sustainability reporting today. Sustainability reporting has a much wider scope that encompasses reporting on economic, environmental and social issues. Sustainability reportin…
This thesis poses a singular but challenging question for comparative history. Why did two pre-industrial economies, faced with the same level of depopulation from the Black Death, respond so differently to the same external shock? While England recovered, Egypt collapsed. Focus…
This study examines the impact of economic policy on economic growth in Nigeria between 1970 and the mid-1990s. It analyzes Nigerian policy to determine whether policy has, indeed, promoted growth during the period under review. In this study, policies that help create macroecon…
Despite amounting to a mere one percent of the population of the Byzantine Empire, the Jews there left a lasting mark on the economic development of the region, particularly in the sector of textile trade and production. At the same time, the Jews engaged in an entire set of pro…
The demand for social housing has grown recently more than its supply, particularly in the United Kingdom (UK). The existing literature addresses the lack of a sustainability policy and its contribution to the lack of political intent to support the achievement of social housing…
This thesis explores the commercial links between Scotland and France in the long seventeenth century, with a focus on the Scottish mercantile presence in France’s Atlantic ports, particularly during periods of domestic and international upheaval. This study questions long-held …
The effectiveness of economic sanctions as a foreign policy tool is debated among policymakers. However, a rising tide of international support for sanctions gives today's sanctions against the Iranian government more hope than ever before. With the United Nations Security Counc…
Problem. The primary purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of the rounds of sanctions imposed on Iran's import and export industries, and to determine the successful adaptation of particular industries to a new series of imposed policies. The current study was de…
This study will take an economic historical approach to the Arab Spring in an attempt to discover why citizens across the Middle East and North Africa rose up against their respective governments and demand change. The study will focus, more specifically, on Egypt and Tunisia wh…
In recent years the number of Free Trade Zones (FTZs) or Export Processing Zones (EPZs) has rapidly grown. Close to fifty countries have now established EPZs to stimulate and diversify their industrial growth. The efectiveness and performance of EPZs is an important topic of int…
The Economic Relationship between Patron and Freedman in Italy in the Early Roman Empire explores how economic and productive relationships between patrons and freedmen continued after manumission in Roman Italy during the early Principate. This dissertation surveys a range of a…
Interstate 73/74 (I-73/74) is a corridor that has been designated as nationally significant by the United States Congress, as it will connect the Great Lakes/Midwest with the Carolinas’ coast. The Corridor consists of two interstates, Interstate 73 and Interstate 74, and once co…