Many scholars have enthusiastically looked for ways to improve informal housing conditions in Cairo, Egypt. Some of them called for policy upgrading, architectural improvements, budget allocation, and sustainable development. By connecting different sectors together to serve the…
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Rural access infrastructural development projects in post 2001 Afghanistan represent a vital component of the economic recovery of the state. This thesis examines four of the most prevalent of these projects implemented by the World Bank, and in doing so substantiates the signif…
This dissertation comprises three chapters which cover two main topics. The first chapter provides a study on the quality of life of cities in Senegal, and the last two chapters analyze the effects of the adoption of value-added taxation on manufacturing firms in Ethiopia. Rapid…
In general, the Kurdish people, an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group in Iraq, have a positive attitude towards the English language, and English is more highly appreciated than Arabic. Since achieving autonomy in 1991, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) has taken some dramati…
The U.S. Virgin Islands is experiencing an economic recession, manifested through social disorders such as abandoned and vandalized houses. Research points to social disorders and lack of community engagement as key factors inhibiting community development efforts. In order to s…
In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) education is widely understood to play a key role in promoting gender equality and economic empowerment. In the MENA region generally, and Egypt in particular, "early-marriage" is implicated as one of the main barriers to educational ac…
This thesis investigates the capacity of the newly introduced Chinese Special Economic Zones in Africa (CSEZAs) to deliver ‘cooperation' and ‘mutual development' to China and Africa. Referring to existing scholarship on other forms of liberal spatial economics, it addresses the …
Beyond the conventional meaning of CSR as a voluntary obligation for enhancing the social, economic and environmental wellness of the society, the developmental-oriented CSR is emerging and requires exploratory and empirical investigations. This research attempts to fill the gap…
A critical re-examination of the liberal peace is conducted to explore the ways in which certain ideas around peace have come to dominate and to be regarded as “common sense”. The foundation of my critique comes in the personalisation of peacebuilding through the stories of peop…
This thesis builds on the recent developments in methods of panel estimation to investigate four questions in the economics of growth and development, concentrating on the effects of three variables of interest - ad-valorem tariff rates, military expenditure shares and natural r…
Literature review abstract Background: Domain-general processes, such as working memory (WM), short-term memory (STM), and attention, have been found to be related to mathematical performance in children. The relationship between these abilities, however, is not well understood.…
The present study undertook to address two questions: (1) are there any age-relatable relationships between the spoken and written syntax of adolescent students within a mainstream secondary school? (2) are there any relationships associated with the educational attainment of th…
This dissertation explores a variety of issues in the microeconomics of development, specifically in terms of labor and human development in the Middle East and North Africa. The three essays in this dissertation address a diverse array of development challenges through microeco…
Indonesia is experiencing a reemergence of economic nationalism in recent national development policy. Agriculture and trade, in particular, are sectors targeted by recent protectionist legislation. This study explores this phenomena, combining qualitative methods and a politica…
The world changed, in a multitude of ways, the day of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon. The impact of this day reverberates beyond the countries of Iraq and Afghanistan, where the United States has engaged in a controversial a…
Households from the rural areas of developing countries often lack many markets of interest, leading them often to tradeoff their long-run wellbeing for short-run survival priorities. Such situations create pressures on the limited volumes of natural resources available to them,…
This dissertation examines how, why, and to what effect private voluntary organizations (PVOs) partnered with the U.S. federal government on projects aimed at fighting overseas hunger, disease, and poverty. Detailing the period between World War II and the passage of the 1973 Fo…
Social science discourses on migration and development emphasize migrants' altruism or self-interest as the determinants of their remitting practices, which is countered by alternative explanations focusing on social culture and structure. Due to the dichotomy of structure/agenc…