The present dissertation aims to contribute to research on relationships between foreign capital, domestic savings and output by improving on the previous empirical investigations in terms of methodology as well as in terms of treatment of the data under investigation. The South…
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The dissertation seeks to present, examine and evaluate the policies, processes and conditions that have facilitated the Maldives to confront and adapt to the opportunities created by and challenges posed by economic globalization. It examines how the vagaries of economic global…
Coral reefs are bioherms whose structure comprises a dynamic mixture of geologically inherited and environmentally forced morphologies. The major debate of coral reef history is over the relative importance of antecedent, erosional and recent, constructional processes in control…
This thesis explores a youth cultural movement in Male', the Capital Island and urban center of the Republic of the Maldives. I will focus on the dialectic between the strict social control over society enforced by penal tactics and the censorship of expression in a social conte…
This dissertation attempts to assess the developmental experience of the Maldives, a small island state in the Indian Ocean, since the inception of tourism, in 1972. By the standard most commonly used (GDP per capita growth), this experience has been perhaps the world's most suc…
While many of the effects of climate-induced sea level rise on continental coastlines are predicted for the future, rising waters are already causing damage to the low-lying island nations of the Maldives, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, and Tuvalu. Low-lying island nations face…
The Maldives atolls, the very top of one of the largest modern carbonate platforms, occupy the central and largest part of the Chagos-Laccadives ridge located in the equatorial Indian Ocean. In the central part of the archipelago, the large atolls form two parallel north-south r…