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Foreign policy controlling choices, minds and bodies : the case of the Mexico City Policy by the United States of America

2005

abortion fundingthe United States development fundingdevelopment policiesthe United States foreign policyreproductive rightswomen's positiondeveloping countriesabortionYhdysvallat
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E-government in Tanzania: Current Status and Future Challenges

2012

Article from the book: Electronic Government. Also available from SpringerLink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33489-4_17 The public sector plays an important role in the economic growth and development of developing countries. The application of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) may help improve the public sector by contributing to new services and processes that address citizens as well as government-to-government services, involve citizens more directly in decisions being made, and contribute to streamlining work processes and standardizations needed to develop a well-functioning public sector. Research focusing on E-government in developing countries is still …

biologyE-Governmentbusiness.industry[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciencesPublic sectorMedia studiesDeveloping countryE-governmentPublic relationsbiology.organism_classificationTanzaniaTanzaniaWork (electrical)VDP::Social science: 200::Library and information science: 320Information and Communications TechnologyComputerSystemsOrganization_MISCELLANEOUS[INFO]Computer Science [cs]BusinessDeveloping Countries
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The current state of research on eGovernment in developing countries: A literature review

2012

Published version of a chapter in the book: Electronic Government. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33489-4_1 This paper reports a review of literature on eGovernment in the context of developing countries published between 2005 and 2010. The insights emerging from this review may guide researchers in their continued investigation of eGovernment implementation, especially in the context of developing countries. From a review of 108 papers, the study found some substantive changes in the field of eGovernment research. These included increased adoption of interpretive paradigm and increased use of theories in the research. Some future research directio…

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Sport and Quality of Life

2022

Negli ultimi trent’anni lo sport ha assunto un significato molto rilevante nella vita delle persone e, seppure con notevoli differenze, sia nei paesi a sviluppo economico avanzato, sia in quelli in via di sviluppo. A livello individuale, esso ha costituito un’area di investimento identitario quando ha assunto la forma di sport spettacolo del quale fruire, alimentando la pratica del tifo e il fandom o costituendo il modello di uno stile di vita vincente; ma anche quando ha assunto la forma di pratica del tempo libero attraverso la quale tenersi in forma, facendo crescere, in questo caso, la diffusione di una cultura della salute e del benessere. Si tratta di due modalità di approcciare al co…

but also when he took the form of free time practice through which to keep fit making grow in this case the diffusion of a culture of health and well-being. These are two ways of approaching the consumption of sports by spectators and actorIn the last thirty years sport has taken on a very significant meaning in people's lives and albeit with considerable differences both in advanced economic development countries and in developing countries. On an individual level it constituted an area of identity investment when it assumed the shape of “sport spectacle” to be enjoyed fueling the practice of cheering and fandom or constituting the model of a winning lifestyleand the two ways of use can be strongly related to the perception and assessment of the quality of life. The “semantic universes” which however connote sport and “free time sports” have often appeared polarized. Commercial sport and sports professionalism are intertwined with the institutions of economics politics and culture which above all stress its “spectacularity” in order to capture first and foremost the audience. But also the sport of leisure time is intertwined with the actions of the institutions of economics politics and culture with the difference that these stress above all its “healthy value” aimed at the “healthy and rational” investment of time in an activity which improves the quality of life in the short medium and long period. This polarization between the consumption of sport entertainment - commercial sport - and the consumption of sport as a leisure activity - sport for all - has become increasingly interconnected precisely because of the increased collective identity demand via sport. In other words we have witnessed the spread of shape of sports entertainment that recall the importance of sports for psychophysical well-being for integration and social participation for the reduction of social inequalities ethnic and cultural differences and in which the importance assumed was weakened in the show from agonism from competition from the physical confrontation between two contenders or two teams. A sport in which we act with competitors as well as against competitors. And on the other hand we have gradually witnessed the spectacularization of sports in our free time to the point that the sharing of the results obtained through the declination of a competitive spirit that presents itself as directed no longer against other contenders but against its own performance limits it has become the way in which each person makes part of his or her own life spectacular the one he often considers most authentic. The aim of this work is to describe how the intertwining between the commercial/professional dimension of the sports show and the playful/recreational dimension of sports practice are fueled by a demand and an offer of social identity that characterizes these two “semantic universes”.Settore SPS/07 - Sociologia Generale
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International Assessment Surveys of Educational Achievement in Developing Countries

2015

This paper reviews the most known international assessment studies that are conducted in the context of poor countries and highlights the lack of empirical evidence on the degree to which the contents of the tests really match countries' curricula. To illustrate, the paper evaluates the sensitivity of an international testing instrument by comparing the responses of students in two consecutive grades on the same battery of tests. Using propensity score matching to control for student and teacher characteristics, the results show that the tests are not grade sensitive, which raises the question of the validity of many empirical works that are based on similar instruments.

content validityeducation[SHS.EDU] Humanities and Social Sciences/Educationdeveloping countriesinternational achievement tests
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Etats de santé et systèmes de soins dans les pays en développement. La contribution des politiques de santé au développement durable

2004

The aim of this article consists in measuring in which way health policies in developing countries are contributing to sustainable development goals. Firstly, a return on the terminology and the abstract contents of the sustainable development allows us to identify it with the cumulative and circular process, according to which the economic growth generates human development. We put secondly in motto the crucial role of health in the maintenance of this virtuous circle, to appreciate the opportunity of health policies in the way they lead to reinforce links between economic growth and human development.

developing countries. <br />health policysustainable developmentsystèmes de soinsdéveloppement durable[ SHS.ECO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economies and financespolitiques de santéhealth policydeveloping countries.pays en développement[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance[SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
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Horizon 2000 : prévisions des dépenses d'éducation primaire dans les pays en développement

1990

The aim of the present article is to provide a statistical assessmentof the amount of public money developing countries will nedd to spend in order to meet the estimated demand for primary education in the year 2000 and to evaluate the cost of providing universal primary education by that date.

education expenditureEconomic growth050204 development studies[SHS.EDU]Humanities and Social Sciences/Education[SHS.EDU] Humanities and Social Sciences/Education0507 social and economic geographyPrimary educationDeveloping country050701 cultural studiesEducationEducational finance0502 economics and businessEconomicsdépense publique[ SHS.ECO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economies and financesyear 2000dépense d'éducationPrimary education[SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and FinancePays en développementAn 2000ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUSDéveloppement de l'éducation05 social sciences1. No poverty[ SHS.EDU ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Educationdeveloping countries[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and FinanceEducational researchJEL : I - Health Education and Welfare8. Economic growthÉducation pour tousJEL: I - Health Education and WelfareAnalyse prévisionnelleForecast
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Examining the impact of visa restrictions on international tourist flows using panel data: Un análisis con datos de panel

2016

Using newly panel data on visa restrictions for the years 2000 and 2010 in a theory-grounded gravity model, we find a robust, causal negative impact of visa restrictions on international tourist flows. By destination, the detrimental impact of this type of barrier is observed for tourists going to developing countries (with the exception of East and South Asia), but not for those to developed ones. By country of origin of tourists, the impact of visa restrictions appears to be the same for tourists coming from developed and developing countries. These findings have important consequences in policy terms for tourism management at a regional level.

gravity modelEconomics and EconometricsSouth asiavisa restrictions05 social sciencesHospitality management studiesDeveloping countrydeveloping countriesInternational economicsCountry of originpanel dataGravity model of trade0502 economics and businessDevelopment economicsInternational tourismBusiness050207 economics050212 sport leisure & tourismTourismPanel dataEstudios de economía
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Institutional entrepreneurs: The driving force in institutionalization of public systems in developing countries

2013

PurposeWhile institutional theory is used widely in the information system (IS) literature to study implementation of systems, the actual process of institutionalization has received less attention. The purpose of this paper is to address this gap in the literature by using three concepts drawn from the theory, namely, institutional isomorphism, institutional logic and institutional entrepreneurship, and the interplay between them to explore the role of the dominant institutional entrepreneur in the institutionalization of a public system, as an instance of e‐government initiatives.Design/methodology/approachIn an interpretive case study, this study examined the institutionalization process…

institutional logicEconomic growthGovernmentInformation Systems and ManagementPublic AdministrationInstitutionalisationProcess (engineering)Developing countrydeveloping countriesE-governmentComputer Science ApplicationsE-procurementInstitutional logicpublic systemsinstitutional isomorphismIndonesiainstitutional entrepreneurshipVDP::Social science: 200::Political science and organizational theory: 240SociologyOrganizational analysisInstitutional theoryinstitutional theoryE-procurement
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Assessing the Commodity Market Price and Terms of Trade Exposures of Macroeconomy in Emerging and Developing Countries

2021

This paper provides novel evidence on commodity market exposure, i.e., the impacts of commodity price and terms of trade fluctuations on macro performance amongst 46 emerging and developing countries (EMDCs) in Africa, Asia and the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. We estimate the exposure of six macroeconomic variables to the commodity prices and terms of trade. Our results indicate that in overall terms, there is a strong and statistically significant long-run relationship between the vector of analyzed world trade prices and macro variables in all EMDCs. However, based on the short-term reactions, only about 10% of the macroeconomic variation amongst the EMDCs is due to commodit…

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