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Khan, Maria Ishaq – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation explores the allocation patterns of the official development assistance (ODA) by the World Bank (WB) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in eighteen developing countries of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and South Asia (SA) for the time-period, 1990-2015. Differing perspectives have been…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Technical Assistance, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Tyler Remick – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation focuses on microeconomic topics in the fields of public, labor and education. Particularly, this dissertation evaluates state policies in higher education and develops a global measure for job quality. Chapter 1 studies how state merit aid programs affect undergraduate degrees earned in Science, Technology, Engineering and…
Descriptors: Microeconomics, State Policy, Higher Education, Bachelors Degrees
Fletcher, Jordan L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Developing nations are poised to spend billions on information and communication technology (ICT) innovation in 2020. A study of the historical adoption of ICT in developing nations has indicated that their adoption patterns do not follow typical technology innovation adoption models. This study addressed the weaknesses found in existing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged, Information Technology
Isabalija, Stephen Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Although e-medicine, just as with all information technology (IT), was developed and piloted in developed countries, it has not been successfully applied to address pressing medical problems in SSA (Mbarika & Okoli, 2003; Maher, et al., 2010). There is a lot of research that has been conducted in the last decade on telemedicine in sub-Saharan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Knowledge Management, Medicine
Blimpo, Moussa Pouguinimpo – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Education is a powerful tool to improve lives and enhance the prospect of innovation and development of nations. While primary school enrollment has increased considerably over the past few decades in Sub-Saharan Africa, learning and the retention rate have remained low. The first two chapters of this dissertation analyze two dimensions in a bid…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Trust (Psychology), Economics
Etim, Alice Sunday – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The global environment is a complex network of people who are grouped using different types of information. In each country, people are grouped based on such information as age, race, ethnicity, educational qualification, income, occupation, and net worth. These socioeconomic descriptions of people have relevance in our current Information Age.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Electronic Learning, Poverty