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…
This study focuses on the economic and political transformation of the Egyptian state after it applied neoliberal structural adjustment policies in May 1991, as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank had required in return for foreign debt restructuring. It dem…
Globalisation denotes economic liberalisation and deregulation, the intensification of international economic relations and interdependence, and changes in the mode of production and the nature and exercise of state powers. In this context, business corporations also implement g…
Numerous informational studies to identify Information Systems (IS) management issues in various countries have taken place worldwide. It has been found that the ranking of the IS management issues varies from one country to another. Also, it has been observed that the attention…
Egypt has very limited surface water resources, perhaps surprisingly the country has quite plentiful water available from shallow wells. If water could be lifted from these wells, much more of the country could be used for growing crops. Lack of capital investment and expense of…
In this dissertation I evaluate the family support for the elderly in the aging developing countries. I argue that well-being of the elderly cannot be ensured by the family alone for two reasons: the burden will increase in the future and elderly are not necessarily taken of wel…
In the process of an inflation rate increase, there is commonly a shift away from the use of domestic money toward the use of foreign money. The reason for this shift is that foreign money provides more appropriate services in terms of performing the functions of money, which ar…