Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'National Capital Development Commission'

This research study focuses on the way the Namibian public sector plans and implements capital projects, mainly in the Ohangwena region, and the Ministry of Health and Social Services in general. The research results show that the planning and project process is not clear and that options need to be considered for the improvement thereof. It is observed that often some of the identified and approved capital projects are not implemented and, if implemented, this is typically done in two or three years. Most parts of Ohangwena are comprised of sandy roads, especially the north-eastern area of Ohangwena which represents a large part of the region. Distances between health facilities and the scarcity of transport make it difficult for the community to easily reach the nearest health facility. The primary objective of this study is to perform an assessment of the planning process in the public sector for the implementation of capital projects and its effectiveness with regard to the planning and implementation of identified capital projects. From the outset, the critical issue is not only implementation, but also how the Ministry plans its capital projects for successful implementation. Interestingly, no research has been done before on this topic in Namibia. Against this background, officials (planners) that are directly involved in capital projects design were interviewed at the district, regional and national levels of the Ministry. The research investigation found that, in general, the planning and project processes in the Ministry are good, but a number of weaknesses were observed in the implementation process. The findings of the study showed that capacity in the Ministry, in terms of skills and technical expertise, are among the main causes of delay in the implementation of capital projects, particularly in the region and in the Ministry in general. The research found that lack of technical expertise in the Ministry and the limited capacity of those responsible for capital projects initiation and implementation, especially at the District and Regional level, have a substantial influence on most of all the weaknesses observed in the system. In this regard, specific recommendations were made regarding the prioritization of the necessary posts and building capacity at the operational level

The temporal and spatial variability in wind speed and direction was investigated in a study of the mesoscale wind fields in the Canberra region. The statistical description of the winds was based on twelve months of three-hourly data at seventeen sites obtained in a joint program carried out by the Division of Land Use Research, CSIRO, the National Capital Development Commission, and the Bureau of Meteorology. The statistical analysis proceeded in stages. The first two stages were concerned with the determination and examination of averages and measures of dipersion. Information on the temporal variability in regional wind, defined as the average of the winds at the seventeen collection sites, provided the first insight into the important determinants of winds in the region. The data were then categorized on the basis of the information thus obtained, and the averages over time for each site were analysed in each category. The variation between sites revealed the extent of the spatial variability in the region. For each category, for each site, there were perturbations around the average state, and in the last stage of the study, the analysis examined how the perturbations were related across sites using correlation coefficients. Generalized Procrustes Analysis was used, followed by the extensive use of cluster analysis. Linear modelling techniques were used at all stages of the study, not only for wind speed, but also for wind direction which is an angular variate and thus required different modelling procedures. The models related the variables of interest to terrain features such as position, elevation and surface roughness. These models allowed an informed judgement to be made on the likelihood of accurately estimating the winds at other locations in the region using interpolation techniques.

Master of Science
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
LaBarbara J. Wigfall
Community Capital Framework often provides a foundation for analyzing community development in cities and neighborhoods (Flora & Flora, 2008). However, the relationship between cultural heritage tourism and individual community capitals has been little studied in southern, Arizona. Therefore the primary objective of this study is to determine the most influential capitals at a renowned cultural heritage site in Arizona, Saguaro National Park. For this case study an assessment system will be established to assess the most influential capitals. Robert Stake’s The Art of Case Study Research was used as the research model to examine the relationships between cultural heritage tourism and the individual community capitals at Saguaro National Park. Results from this case study indicated that natural and cultural capitals appear to be the most influential because much of the monument’s development and community outreach revolve around the protection of the site’s Saguaros and their importance as a cultural heritage resource to the indigenous people of the Sonoran desert.

Magister Educationis (Adult Learning and Global Change) - MEd(AL)
Scholars argue within a human capital perspective that generic employability skills such as critical thinking, computer literacy, independent thinking, problem solving, communication skills must be included in human capital development. Employers are demanding that education and training institutions enable students to develop generic employability skills so that they can be 'work ready' for employment in the 'new knowledge economy'. As a consequence, the implementation of generic employability skills programmes can be found in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges worldwide. Framed within a human capital perspective, this research paper focuses on an investigation into the extent to which the National Certificate (Vocational) Life Skills course, offered at a TVET college in the Western Cape, enables students to develop the required generic employability skills of communication, problem solving, teamwork, leadership and critical thinking. Findings reveal that the NCV Life Skills course was both successful and unsuccessful in enabling participants to develop generic skills which make them 'ready for work'.

Magister Administrationis - MAdmin
The essence of the study is to examine progress in the transformation of public service under fiscal and constitutional contraints. The thesis focuses on the implementation of affirmative action and human resource development programmes. The emphasis is on linking the transformation of the public service with the attainment of RDP goals and objectives. The reform of the public service should create opportunities for the employment of new staff to improve the representativeness of the civil service, whilst at the same time increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of government, and generating significant savings to help reduce the fiscal deficit and release resource for productive investment.

Masters in Public Administration - MPA
The buzzword in recent development policy-making is PM&E. The notion is that; participatory approaches have the appropriate remedy to curb the problem of exclusion. That notwithstanding, the approach has become rhetoric in certain quarters rather than practical as admitted by some scholars who hold the principle in high esteem. Inferences from the concept of empowerment as put forward by Narayan (2005), might be the premise for rethinking the debate surrounding the inclusion of beneficiaries in participatory monitoring and evaluation because of its undulation positive effect on project outcomes. Over the past two decades, Ghana has initiated and implemented a good number of national policies and strategies that are youth-centered. The majority of these youth programmes are usually delineated in most public policies on thematic areas such as employment, education, health, among many others. A total of 120 respondents (project beneficiaries) were randomly selected for questionnaire administration, and 1 in-depth interviewed was conducted for this study. Using a Participation Perception Index (PPI), developed to assess the youth perception of the extent to which they were involved in the PM&E, the following were ascertained. It was evident that the youth were only made to actively participate in the data collection (as respondents) process. Evidently, the primary objective of the implementing agency was to secure the youth (beneficiaries) job rather than involving them in the project PM&E. The qualitative analysis also highlighted other critical factors affecting both the implementing agency and the youth (skills or know-how, cost, lack of beneficiaries' interest, non-existence of beneficiaries' associations) to ensure active participation. The study concluded that the end goal of the youth intervention programme is tied into the ideas of project sustainability which can be achieved when the various stakeholders are all on board in the PM&E.

The thesis seeks to study through a qualitative text analysis how strategic policy concepts from three different policy documents concerning the use of the European Regional Development Fund can be said to align with two theoretical concepts from the field of regional development. Furthermore this paper aims to analyse how the theoretical- and policy-concepts are operationalized in the project that received funding in accordance with the policy concepts in one of the policy documents.

This study examined the effects and expectations of external economic dependence on foreign investment policy outputs with particular reference to the Nigerian experience between 1954 and 1980. Three basic kinds of external economic dependence were studied: foreign investment, the penetration of the Nigerian economy by foreign capital through the agency of the multinational corporations (MNCs); foreign trade, a measure of the Nigerian economy's participation in the world market; and foreign aid (loans and grants), a measure of Nigeria's reliance on financial assistance from governments and international financial inst itutions. For the most part, the level of Nigeria's economic dependence was very high. However, economic dependency is not translated into changes in foreign investment policy in favor of the foreign investors in Nigeria as is predicted by the dependency paradigm. The Nigerian case casts doubt on the dependency paradigm as a framework for fully explaining factors that may determine foreign direct investment policy changes that occur in a less developed Third World country. In other words, the dependency paradigm has a limited explanatory power; there is a factor independent of the economic factor operating out of the control of global capitalism (the center of the center in alliance with the center of the periphery); and that factor is the political process in Nigeria. The web of the Nigerian political process involves the various aspects of its internal functioning such as the manner in which needs, interests and demands are conveyed from the individuals and groups in the country to those performing state duties. Thus, Nigerian policy makers were more influenced by those elements than pure economic considerations treated in isolation.

This thesis explores the role of expert-led policy processes in addressing water quality. It does so by drawing on the ‘peri-urban' as a setting which exemplifies contemporary social and environmental challenges associated with river and groundwater pollution, as well as the health and livelihood implications for the poorest citizens in peri-urban areas. The peri-urban area of Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of New Delhi, provides a good reference point for understanding those challenges, while India's environmental regulatory agency (the Central Pollution Control Board) demonstrates how policy experts influence such a setting by enacting their institutional role and mandate. The thesis examines the ways in which problems associated with deteriorating water quality in peri-urban areas are often neglected in expert-led policy processes, and the consequent implications for peri-urban poor communities. It argues that expert-driven policy approaches to addressing water quality are formulated almost exclusively on scientific grounds, while underlying ‘non-scientific' decisions and choices, emerging from actors operating at levels from policy framing to policy implementation, are not awarded the same importance, thus ignoring issues that pertain to the social, environmental and political implications of the problems. By drawing on qualitative research, the thesis focuses on two case studies. One examines the Central Pollution Control Board's framing of policy initiatives while the other follows the implementation of such policies in peri-urban Ghaziabad. The thesis demonstrates how the scale of monitoring water quality is heavily biased towards national rather than local level priorities. This leads to an understatement of important water quality problems that affect peri-urban areas in favour of large-scale analyses of pollution in river basins. This has the effect of understating important water quality problems that affect peri-urban areas in poorer localities such as villages within the Ghaziabad district. The centrality of technical discourses in the articulation of and response to water quality problems makes it difficult for non-technical perspectives (derived directly from those people who are exposed to pollution) to feed into formal decision-making. This research also identified the key influence of a number of actors (municipal engineers, public health officials and district magistrates) in shaping and implementing policy outcomes on the ground in local contexts (i.e. peri-urban areas), even though their roles are often not recognised formally. The thesis is original in its attempt to merge insights from policy studies and science technology studies (STS) and apply them to the domain of water quality, a field that has not traditionally been subjected to critical social science inquiry. It also unpacks ethnographically the Board's dual role as both a policy advisor and regulator, and further illustrates how the enactment of these roles can lead to contradictory outcomes on the ground, particularly for the poorest periurban citizens.

There is still very little known about network dynamics (Bell et al., 2006), especially when focusing on interorganisational networks (Provan et al., 2007). There is also limited empirical evidence on leadership within these complex network contexts (Davenport, 2005; Osborn et al., 2002). This thesis addresses these limitations by developing a theoretical framework for process leadership in the complex, often unpredictable and turbulent context of the interorganisational networked ecosystem. Understanding the complexity of networks and leadership is crucial to advancing network research, which this study aims to accomplish. Although previous studies indicate leader characteristics and behaviours (Huxham & Vangen, 2000), less evidence on the processes and dynamics of leadership within networks exists. Few studies have longitudinally examined the multiple boundaries and multi-level interactions within a complex interorganisational network, as the unit of analysis, as this thesis achieves. Moreover, little research has been conducted to understand network leadership processes, which represents a major gap in the network theory and complexity leadership literatures. In order to address these gaps as well as the gap between the two literatures, this thesis presents a comprehensive, longitudinal case investigation of network process leadership (NPL) within an interorganisational network embedded in the British National Health Service (NHS). By analysing processual dynamics, this thesis’s contribution is the foundation of a preliminary NPL framework. Based on analysing a public sector healthcare network over time, the findings emphasise four dominant thematic constructs surrounding NPL that emerged as highly significant: leveraging strategic system stressors and turbulence; adopting focal and non-focal roles; maximising social proximity; and the complementary, reciprocal formal and informal coproduction of leadership. These constructs provide the empirical and analytical grounds to help explain the critical leadership processes that drive a complex, interorganisational public sector network. Significantly, social capital dimensions underlie these interrelated higher order themes; thereby affecting wider inter-organisational network processes. As a primary contribution of this thesis, I argue that social capital is the critical concept linking network and complexity leadership theories, in order to provide a better understanding of NPL. The findings suggest network leadership calls for NPL and its relational, collective, facilitative approach involving social capital among multiple participants in a complex interorganisational network context. This is highly differentiated from studying unidirectional effects of a hierarchical, central leader within a single organisation. Theoretically, I argue the importance of social capital in the complex nature of leadership processes within interorganisational networked contexts. The research contributes to an understanding of how networks and social capital can be adapted or created by formal and informal leaders within networks to reflect changing processes to shape practices and network-wide development over time. Finally, I offer several operational mechanisms policymakers and network leaders could pragmatically employ to manage, lead, and facilitate interorganisational network processes. Overall, the significance of this study involves: filling gaps in the literature, offering a longitudinal case study on an interorganisational network over time, providing a foundation for theoretical development on leading in networks, illuminating insights into professional leadership within networks, and identifying policy and practical implications for leaders and managers.

A pesquisa analisa os discursos e as representações sociais mobilizadas na abordagem de certo segmento midiático brasileiro – as revistas semanais de informação geral CartaCapital, Época, IstoÉ e Veja – às atividades da Comissão Nacional da Verdade (CNV), entre maio de 2012 e dezembro de 2014. Essas publicações alinham-se a diferentes posicionamentos político-ideológicos e ao mesmo tempo influenciam e reproduzem, em maior ou menor grau, o debate político nacional dentro e fora das instituições oficiais. O objetivo é discutir a temática dos direitos humanos a partir da questão da memória e da verdade, operada mediante mecanismos de justiça de transição engendrados após traumas políticos como a ditadura brasileira 1964-1985 – regime para o qual parte da mídia nacional prestou apoio. Além de um exame panorâmico do corpus de 240 textos que tratam da CNV (temas orbitais abordados, distribuição dos textos no tempo e sob as diferentes coordenações do colegiado, comparação com a cobertura da mídia em geral), utiliza-se o instrumental teórico-metodológico das representações sociais e da análise de discurso de matriz francesa, com especial atenção à noção de formação discursiva e à construção do discurso midiático, para esmiuçar uma amostra de 20 matérias ilustrativas das diferentes fases narrativas da cobertura das revistas. Observa-se nesse recorte uma marcada dicotomização das representações sobre a questão da memória e da verdade. Essas representações expressam posicionamentos divergentes quanto à relação entre verdade e justiça dentro do processo justransicional brasileiro, com reflexos diretos sobre as possibilidades de alcance da reconciliação nacional – um dos objetivos expressos pelo Estado com a criação da Comissão. Essa divisão remete também a debates travados internacionalmente no campo da justiça de transição, em que se contrap
The research analyzes discourses and social representations mobilized in the approach of certain Brazilian media segment – such as weekly magazines of general information CartaCapital, Época, IstoÉ and Veja – over the activities of the National Commission of Truth (CNV, in Portuguese), between May 2012 and December 2014. These publications are in line with different political-ideological positions and at once influence to and reproduce the political debate inside and outside the official institutions. The objective is to discuss human rights based on the issue of memory and truth, operated through transitional justice mechanisms engendered to deal with consequences of political traumas such as the Brazilian dictatorship 1964-1985 – a regime for which part of the national media provided support. In addition to a panoramic examination of the corpus of 240 texts referring CNV (orbital themes covered, temporal distribution of the texts, comparison with media coverage in general), it is analysed a sample of 20 texts representing the different narrative phases of magazine coverage, for what is fundamental the theoretical and methodological contribution from social representations theory and French discourse analysis, specially the notion of discursive formation and the construction of the media discourse. In this setting of texts is observed a remarkable dichotomization of representations on the issue of memory and truth. These representations express divergent positions regarding the relationship between truth and justice in the Brazilian Transitional Justice, with direct effects on the possibilities of national reconciliation – one of the CNV‟s objectives. This division: also refers to debates in the field of transitional justice around the world, in which an idealist, universalizing, punitive, and another realist, contextualizing, appeasing, positions are opposed; is intensified by ideological disputes

Este estudo tem por objetivo analisar e reconstruir os fundamentos da Teoria da Tributação e do Direito Tributário que regem a incidência do Imposto de Renda sobre operações conduzidas nos mercados financeiro e de capitais. Examinam-se, num primeiro momento, os preceitos norteadores da eqüidade, eficiência (nos seus dois vieses de neutralidade e desenvolvimento), simplicidade e conveniência, verificando-se em que medida o ordenamento jurídico-tributário posto está em consonância com a Teoria da Tributação. Na seara da Teoria da Tributação, destaque é dado ao trade-off (ou dilema) entre eficiência e eqüidade relativo à tributação da renda auferida nos mercados. Em momento subseqüente, analisam-se as regras constitucionais e complementares que moldam a incidência do Imposto de Renda e a maneira pela qual princípios e mandamentos constitucionais, concernentes à seara tributária ou não, atuam em relação à tributação da renda obtida nos mercados financeiro e de capitais. Nessa toada, papel de relevo possui a relação conflituosa existente entre o mandamento da tributação conforme a capacidade contributiva e a possibilidade de instituição de normas tributárias indutoras visando a objetivos extrafiscais.
This paper aims at analyzing and reconstructing the fundamentals of the Taxation Theory and of the Tax Law that guide the assessment of the Income Tax on transactions carried out within the financial and capital markets. At a first moment, we examine the guiding precepts of equity, efficiency (in its two aspects of neutrality and development), simplicity and convenience, then verifying in what measure the legislation in force is adequate in light of the Taxation Theory. In the field of the Taxation Theory, we highlight the trade-off between efficiency and equity in relation to the taxation of the income obtained in the markets. Afterwards, we analyze the constitutional and complementary rules that shape the assessment of the Income Tax and the manner by which tax and non-tax constitutional principles and guidelines act as regards the taxation of the income obtained within the financial and capital markets. In this sense, a paramount role shall be attributed to the conflictive relation between the ability-to-pay rule and the possibility of enacting tax norms aiming at non-fiscal purposes.

L’Homme représente la vraie richesse de la nation, car il poursuit le progrès social tout en cherchant son bien-être personnel par le biais d’actions concrètes pour améliorer son mode de vie. C’est pour cela que le Maroc a lancé à travers le discours du Roi Mohamed VI, l’Initiative Nationale pour le Développement Humain (INDH), le 18 mai 2005, pour lutter contre l’exclusion sociale, la précarité et la pauvreté et se hisser au rang des pays avancés. Notre étude de l’INDH prend appui sur l’évaluation du programme de lutte contre la précarité dans la région Chaouia-Ouardigha. Celle-ci est une des régions du Maroc qui a été étudiée de plus près pour avoir bénéficié de projets dans ce cadre. L’Initiative Nationale pour le Développement Humain est donc un vaste chantier permanent qui met l’Homme au centre du développement, et assure la durabilité de ses projets. Le développement humain a un caractère à la fois économique et social. Il suppose une politique publique active. C’est pourquoi, il n’aurait de raison d’être sans l’Etat, qui s’est affirmé dès la fin des années 1990, conformément aux travaux de A. Sen mettant l’accent sur le rôle de l’Etat dans le développement humain
Man represents the true wealth of nation, as he persues social advance while seeking his personal well-being by means of concrete actions to improve his life style. That is why Morocco has launched the National Initiative for Human Development through king Mohamed Vl’ s speech on the 18th of May 2005, to fight against social exclusion, precariousness and poverty and to raise itself to the position of advanced countries. Our NIHD study rests on the evaluation of the fight program against precariousness in Chaouia-Ouardigha region. This is one of Morocco’s most closely studied regions, since it has benefited from projects within this framework. The National Initiative for Human Development is therefore a vast and permanent field which puts man at the heart of development and ensures the durability of his plans. The human development has both an economic and a social nature. It requires an active public Policy. That is why there would be no more reason for it to exist without the state, which asserted itself from the end of the nineties in accordance with A. Sen’ s Works which emphasize the role of the state in human development

У дисертації поглиблено дослідження наукового ландшафту визначення ролі та місця державної міграційної політики в системі управління національним господарством, що здійснено з використанням бенчмаркінг-інструментарію (Scopus Tools Analysis, Web of Science Analyze Results і Google Ngram Viewer) та бібліометричного аналізу (VOSviewer v. 1.6.13) у таких вимірах: змістовному (кластеризовано наукові патерни досліджень залежно від тісності їх взаємозв’язку), часовому (визначено періоди зростання публікаційної активності та основні етапи еволюції наукового доробку), просторовому (виявлено та описано інтернаціональні наукові альянси). Обґрунтовано напрямки реформування державної міграційної політики в Україні на основі формалізованих причинно-наслідкових зв’язків між рівнем чистого міграційного приросту та сукупністю параметрів розвитку національної економіки (рівні урбанізації, експортно-імпортного й бюджетного потенціалів, соціального та інфраструктурного розвитку, інноваційності, ефективності системи охорони здоров’я, фінансової стабільності) на основі результатів когнітивного моделювання. У роботі обґрунтовано основні напрями реалізації державної міграційної політики відповідно до Цілей сталого розвитку і ключових стейкхолдерів, що здійснено на основі виявлених фільтром Баттерворта флуктуацій часових рядів зміни індексу чистого міграційного приросту та ключових індикаторів досягнення Цілей сталого розвитку, а також засобами кореляційного аналізу – співпадіння/неспівпадіння виявлених трендів; Виявлено часові лаги, ретроспективні та прогнозовані зміни кількості вітчизняних емігрантів, обґрунтувати, що серед їх мотивів пошук можливостей працевлаштування домінує над потребами в зростанні добробуту. Для цього розроблено методологію дослідження трендів та структури еміграційного потоку у контексті таргетування регуляторних інтервенцій державної міграційної політики на основі результатів сценарного прогнозування (модель авторегресії та розподіленого лага ADL) динаміки зміни кількості емігрантів з України залежно від зміни рівнів безробіття та доходів на душу населення. Це дозволило виявити часові лаги, ретроспективні та прогнозовані зміни кількості вітчизняних емігрантів, обґрунтувати, що серед їх мотивів пошук можливостей працевлаштування домінує над потребами в зростанні добробуту. У роботі обґрунтовано впливу бренду країни на динаміку чистого міграційного потоку, що базується на поєднанні тестувань ANOVA, Шапіро – Уїлка та Левене, врахуванням емоційних уявлень та обізнаності потенційних мігрантів про країну, орієнтацією не на статичну, а на інтервальну оцінку сприйняття бренду країни її зовнішніми стейкхолдерами. Це дозволило на даних України та європейських країн емпірично підтвердити наявність динамічного тренду еміграційних потоків у ті країни, які сприймаються нерезидентами як такі, що демонструють більш високий потенціал, якість життя, культурні цінності та традиції. Розроблено методологію встановлення ролі конкурентоспроможності національної системи вищої освіти як детермінанти зміни міграційних процесів, яка впливає на залучення нових трудових ресурсів до країни та зменшення їх відпливу за кордон. Для цього у роботі розроблено дворівневий підхід, який на першому рівні передбачає кластеризацію європейських країн за інтегральним показником, що комплексно оцінює як кількісні, так і якісні характеристики системи вищої освіти, а також рівень її інтернаціоналізації, а на другому рівні – за допомогою logit- та probit-моделювання визначає ймовірність зміни інтенсивності міграційних процесів для кожного кластеру країн. Поглиблено наукові засади сценарного прогнозування динаміки чистого міграційного приросту населення залежно від характеру змін рівнів грамотності населення, його залученості до неформальної освіти, що на відміну від існуючих базується на поєднанні регресійного аналізу та імітаційного моделювання. На основі цього обґрунтовано напрямки синхронізації державної міграційної політики з освітніми реформами, зокрема щодо розвитку неформальної освіти та освіти впродовж усього життя. Розроблено методологічний інструментарій оцінювання впливу інтенсивності міграційних процесів на рівень економічної конвергенції України з країнами-членами Європейського Союзу, що засновано на дворівневий підхід дозволив: на основі поєднання модифікованої моделі Кобба – Дугласа та індексу Херфіндаля – Хіршмана довести, що для України та країн Вишеградської четвірки домінуючою міграційною детермінантою довгострокового економічного зростання є збільшення обсягів грошових переказів емігрантів у країну їх походження, а не зміна концентрації і поляризації населення цих країн у наслідок припливу іммігрантів; на основі моделей !- і "-конвергенції оцінити швидкість та час, необхідний для економічної конвергенції національної економіки з країнами-членами Європейського Союзу з урахуванням впливу інтенсивності міграційних процесів. Розвинуто науково-методичний підхід до оцінювання динамічного інтегрального індексу соціального прогресу як рефлектора державної міграційної політики, що базується на чотириетапному підході та передбачає оцінювання показників соціального розвитку (відібраних на основі Національної економічної стратегії на період до 2030 р.), визначення їх вагових коефіцієнтів ентропійним методом, а також дозволяє врахувати динамічний характер інтегрального індексу соціального прогресу, забезпечити однорідність та узгодженість у процесі порівняння рівнів соціального прогресу різних країн. Поглиблено методичний інструментарій оцінювання взаємовпливу індикаторів державної міграційної політики та рівня соціального прогресу країни у системі управління національної економіки, що здійснено шляхом оцінювання (узагальнюючим методом моментів Ареллано – Бонда) взаємного впливу міграційного приросту та інтегрального динамічного індикатора соціального прогресу. Це дозволило емпірично підтвердити високий рівень синхронізації державних міграційної та соціальної політик країн Вишеградської групи та відсутність такої узгодженості в Україні, обґрунтувати напрямки використання відповідних кращих бенчмарків під час реформування державної міграційної політики в Україні.
The dissertation is devoted to developing the theoretical and methodological basis for justification of the determinants and reflectors of efficiency of the government migration policy implementation, causal relationships between them, which identified the role and place it in the national economic management system. The thesis provided the bibliometric analysis using the benchmark-instruments Scopus Tools Analysis, Web of Science Analyze Results, Google Ngram Viewer and software VOSviewer v. 1.6.13. It allowed investigating the development of the scientific landscape of the role and place the government migration policy. The assessment of causal relationships (FCM-analysis) between net migration rate and indicators of economic growth (urbanization, export-import and budget potentials, social and infrastructural development, innovation, efficiency of the health care system, financial stability) confirmed the positive and negative interaction between them. The thesis developed the approach for justification of the core direction of government migration policy considering the sustainable development goals and stakeholders. It was based on Butterworth filter fluctuations of time series of the net migration rate changes and key indicators of the sustainable development goals, and the correlation analysis – coincidence/discrepancy of the revealed trends. Furthermore, the author developed an approach for assessing the links between migration and globalization processes in the reform of the government migration policy, which formalize causal relationships between the immigrants and the globalization processes (social, economic, and political dimensions) through complex a combination of ANOVA testing, least squares method and Granger test. It allowed to refute the hypothesis of globalization as a reflector of migration processes, but to confirm that political and social globalization are essential determinants of their activation, and on this basis to justify the socio-political targets of government migration policy reform in Ukraine. The author improved the methodology for studying trends and structure of emigration flow in the context of targeting regulatory interventions government migration policy, based on using scenario forecasting (autoregression model and distributed lag ADL) of emigrants from Ukraine depending on changes in unemployment and per capita income people. The author developed methodology and methodological tools (the principal components analysis and correlation-regression analysis) to assess government efficiency (both as a whole and on its separate components) as determinants of government migration policy. The hypothesis that the intensity of migration processes contributes to the acceleration of Ukraine's integration into the European community is empirically confirmed. The developed two-level approach allowed: 1) based on a combination of the modified Cobb-Douglas model and the Herfindahl-Hirschman index to prove that for Ukraine and the Visegrad countries, the dominant migration determinant of long-term economic growth is an increase in remittances and emigration and the polarization of the population of these countries due to the influx of immigrants; 2) based on the models of !- and "-convergence to estimate the speed and time required for economic convergence Ukraine with EU countries, considering the impact of migration processes intensity. Using the ANOVA test, Shapiro–Wilk and Levene tests, the methodology of justification of the country's brand impact on the net migration flow was developed. The proposed approach considers the emotional perceptions and awareness of potential migrants about the country, focusing not on static but interval assessment of the country's brand perception by its external stakeholders. It allowed empirically confirm the dynamic trend of emigration flows to those countries that non-residents perceive as those that demonstrate higher potential, quality of life, cultural values and traditions for Ukraine and European countries. The hypothesis that the competitiveness of the national higher education system is an important determinant that affects the attraction of new labour resources to the country and reduce their outflow abroad was confirmed. For this purpose, the two-level approach was applied. The first level involves the clustering of European countries by integrated indicator, which comprehensively assesses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics of higher education and its internationalization. At the second level – logit- and probit-modelling determines the probability of changing the intensity of migration processes for each cluster of countries. The scientific principles of scenario forecasting of the net migration rate of the population depending on the changes in literacy rate, population involvement in nonformal education, which is based on a combination of regression analysis and simulation, was developed. It allowed substantiating the directions of synchronization of government migration policy with educational reforms, particularly regarding the development of informal and lifelong education. The author developed the methodology for assessing the social progress of Ukraine and the Visegrad countries, which was based on a four-stage approach and involves assessing social development indicators (selected based on the National Economic Strategy until 2030), determining their entropy weights method, and also allows considering the dynamic nature of the social progress index, ensuring homogeneity and consistency in the comparing the social progress of the countries. Besides, the methodology for studying the coherence of government migration policy and social policy was improved. It assessed (using the Arellano-Bond method) the mutual influence of migration growth and social progress index.

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This research inquity to analyze the importance of managing interorganizational networks as a catalyst for local and regional development. Therefore, the methodology used was content analysis in two important cases of public policies aiming at territorial development in Brazil, and analyzed the data collected in connection with the existing theory on development and networks. The results showed that in the implementation of policies by this research, the network management influences positively the effective reach of its objectives and is an extremely strong tool support, having an outstanding importance among the factors that stimulate development.
Esta pesquisa busca analisar a importância da gestão de redes interorganizacionais como catalisadora do processo de desenvolvimento local e regional. Para tanto, utilizou-se a metodologia de análise de conteúdo em dois relevantes casos de políticas públicas com vistas ao desenvolvimento territorial brasileiro, e analisaram-se os dados coletados em conexão com a teoria existente sobre desenvolvimento e redes. Os resultados apontaram que, na implementação das políticas estudadas neste trabalho, a gestão de redes influencia positivamente o alcance efetivo dos seus objetivos e constitui-se em uma ferramenta de apoio extremamente forte, tendo uma importância de destaque entre os fatores que impulsionam o desenvolvimento.

While much has been written on the Australian film and television industry, little has been presented by actual producers, filmmakers and technicians of their time and experiences within that same industry. Similarly, with historical documentaries, it has been academics rather than filmmakers who have led the debate. This thesis addresses this shortcoming and bridges the gap between practitioner experience and intellectual discussion, synthesising the debate and providing an important contribution from a filmmaker-academic, in its own way unique and insightful. The thesis is presented in two voices. First, my voice, the voice of memoir and recollected experience of my screen adventures over 38 years within the Australian industry, mainly producing historical documentaries for the ABC and the SBS. This is represented in italics. The second half and the alternate chapters provide the industry framework in which I worked with particular emphasis on documentaries and how this evolved and developed over a 40-year period, from 1970 to 2010. Within these two voices are three layers against which this history is reviewed and presented. Forming the base of the pyramid is the broad Australian film industry made up of feature films, documentary, television drama, animation and other types and styles of production. Above this is the genre documentary within this broad industry, and making up the small top tip of the pyramid, the sub-genre of historical documentary. These form the vertical structure within which industry issues are discussed. Threading through it are the duel determinants of production: ‘the market’ and ‘funding’. Underpinning the industry is the involvement of government, both state and federal, forming the three dimensional matrix for the thesis. For over 100 years the Australian film industry has depended on government support through subsidy, funding mechanisms, development assistance, broadcast policy and legislative provisions. This thesis aims to weave together these industry layers, binding them with the determinants of the market and funding, and immersing them beneath layers of government legislation and policy to present a new view of the Australian film industry.

Сибірцев, В. В. Державне регулювання інституціональних змін національного ринку праці : дис. ... д-ра. екон. наук : 08.00.03 / В. В. Сибірцев. - Харків, 2018. - 584 с.
Дисертацію присвячено вагомій науково-прикладній проблемі поглиблення наукових засад організації державного регулювання інституціональних змін національного ринку праці. В основу її вирішення покладені визначення змісту інституціональних змін ринку праці та поглиблення теоретичного обґрунтування структурної побудови інституціонального простору співробітництва суб’єктів національної економіки. Сформовано концептуальну основу реформування національного ринку праці та розвинуто методологічні засади державного регулювання інституціональних змін національного ринку праці. Розширено підґрунтя формування та розвитку людського капіталу в умовах постіндустріального суспільства. Проведено аналіз стану національного ринку праці та визначено етапи еволюції системи його державного регулювання. Представлено систематизацію соціокультурних факторів впливу на формування та розвиток соціального капіталу суспільства. Розроблено інституціональне забезпечення підтримки збалансованості розвитку національного ринку праці та обґрунтовано взаємозв’язок ринку праці з економічною безпекою країни. Розвинуто науковий підхід до формування інформаційної мультиагентної системи організації взаємодії учасників ринку праці. Запропоновано напрями адаптації системи соціального партнерства до умов інституціональної трансформації національної економіки та вдосконалено підхід до оцінювання потенціалу розвитку інституту соціального партнерства. Удосконалено організаційно-методичне забезпечення стимулювання розвитку людського капіталу суспільства на основі безперервного підвищення кваліфікації та перепідготовки кадрів. Розвинуто теоретичні положення формування інфраструктурного забезпечення державного регулювання регіональних сегментів національного ринку праці
Диссертация посвящена важной теоретико-прикладной проблеме углубления научных основ организации государственного регулирования институциональных изменений национального рынка труда. Основу её решения составили определение содержания институциональных изменений рынка труда и расширение теоретических основ структурного построения институционального пространства сотрудничества субъектов национальной экономики. Сформировано концептуальное обоснование реформирования национального рынка труда. Разработана методология государственного регулирования институциональных изменений национального рынка труда. Получил дальнейшее развитие теоретический базис формирования и развития человеческого капитала в условиях постиндустриального общества. Проведен анализ состояния национального рынка труда и определены этапы эволюции системы его государственного регулирования. Представлена систематизация социокультурных факторов влияния на формирование и развитие социального капитала общества. Разработано институциональное обеспечение поддержки сбалансированности развития национального рынка труда и обоснована взаимосвязь рынка труда с экономической безопасностью страны. Получил дальнейшее развитие научный подход к формированию информационной мультиагентной системы организации взаимодействия участников рынка труда. Предложены направления адаптации системы социального партнерства к условиям институциональной трансформации национальной экономики и усовершенствован подход к оцениванию потенциала развития института социального партнерства. Усовершенствовано организационно-методическое обеспечение стимулирования развития человеческого капитала общества на основе непрерывного повышения квалификации и переподготовки кадров. Получили дальнейшее развитие теоретические основы формирования инфраструктурного обеспечения государственного регулирования региональных сегментов национального рынка труда.
The thesis presents author's approach to solving a significant scientific and applied problem of broadening scientific principles of the organization of state regulation of institutional changes in the national labour market. Theoretical substantiation of the structural framework of the institutional mechanism for increasing the efficiency of cooperation of participants in social and economic relations on the national labour market is presented. The implementation of this mechanism is aimed at streamlining a complex integrated set of state interests and priorities for the development of the labour market. The systematic and reflexive paradigm of the organization of interaction of the labour market members, aimed at promoting the necessary level of development of productive forces and parameters of industrial relations, is presented. Formalized representation of the interests of participants in social and economic relations is used as the basis for the development of the structural and logical scheme for regulating national labour market. The regularities of creating a social and economic environment for the formation of human capital were determined. The theoretical and methodological basis for the formation of the state strategy of activating the institutional dynamics of the development of the national labour market has been arranged. The hypothesis about the necessity to distinguish between the processes of functioning and development of the national labour market and the corresponding selection of the methods and instruments of state regulation is proved. The specific features, patterns, principles and methods of the formation of the integral institutional space of cooperation of participants of social and economic relations in the national labour market are determined. The conceptual basis for the reform of the national labour market has been formed. The evolution of the system of state regulation of the national labour market was studied and the characteristics of the modern stage of its development were given. Organizational structuring is considered and the principles of formation of the system of state regulation of social and labour relations in the national economy are presented. The basis of this system is the complex of state planning and administrative operations for the formation of institutional support which is focused on the socialization of social and labour relations. The social and cultural factors that influence the formation and development of social capital of society are systematized. The institutional support for balancing the development of the national labour market has been developed. The content of the notion of balancing the national labour market has been expanded by introducing the additional list of relations between the separate parameters of its functioning and development. In order to regulate the level of strategic balance, institutions of the labour market with an identified system of strategic gaps, formalized through the guidance of the concept of a balanced system of indicators, are linked. The orientation towards the concept of the balanced system of indicators allowed the latter to present a separate institution supporting the implementation of state target programs. Using the architectural approach enabled identifying causal relationships between the forms of manifestation of the imbalance of the labour market and the components of determining its economic security. Disparities in the development of the labour market are presented as a threat factor for the expanded reproduction of the labour potential of the country. The scientific approach to the formation of the information multi-agent system for organizing the interaction of the participants of the national labour market is substantiated. This system is understood as a single, coordinated open self-regulatory system based on the balance of expectations and the competitive and cooperative interaction of economic agents. The peculiarity of the proposed multi-agent system is to use the theory of fractals to develop the methodological basis for institutional reform of the state regulation system of the national labour market. This proposal allowed taking into account the differences in the nature and quality of economic development of various sectors and branches of the national economy. The disclosure of the fractal logic of the process of organizing information and institutional support for state regulation of the development of the national labour market was carried out using the apparatus of Petri Networks. The directions of adaptation of the social partnership system to the conditions of the institutional transformation of the national economy are suggested. During the formation of the social partnership system, the reflexive component of the subordination of economic parameters and qualitative characteristics of the activities of the partners in the national labour market was addressed by the tasks of state regulation of the economy. The formation of the holarchy system of the national labour market has made it possible to adapt the activities and parameters of the interaction of social partnership participants to the conditions of the institutional transformation of the national economy. The basis of such an adaptation is the toolkit of architectural modelling of complex socioeconomic systems and the language of architectural modelling ArchiMate. The methodical approach to assessing the potential of the development of the social partnership institute is substantiated. The basis of this methodological approach is the correlation of the levels of satisfaction of the interests of participants in the social partnership, the maturity of the elements of institutional regulation of the interaction of such participants, the effectiveness of business cooperation with agents of labour resources and the previous levels of holarchy system of the national labour market. The results of the assessment of the potential of the development of the social partnership institute were used as the basis for defining the guidelines for re-designing the constituent elements of the institute. The conceptual foundations of organizational and methodical provision of state incentives for the development of human capital of a society are proposed. They are based on proposals for synchronizing the processes of development of the labour market and the market of educational services. The use of hierarchy analysis method is proposed for the purpose of ranking educational institutions while participating in projects supporting the implementation of state target programmes for the development of the national labour market. The theoretical positions of formation of the infrastructure support of state regulation of regional segments of the national labour market are substantiated. Recommendations on simulation of cluster-network interaction of the subjects of the national labour market for the purpose of strengthening the role of self-organization, self-regulation and self-development of the market are given.

Canberra 1954-1980 traces the main themes in Canberra's recent history. Its broad aim is to identify, describe and account for the physical and political changes which in little more than a quarter of a century turned a makeshift village of expedients into a recognisable national capital. The thesis begins with a picture of the township in 1954, the year in which the vitally important Senate Select Committee on the Development of Canberra was established and the crucial decision taken to make Canberra the true centre of government administration. It then deals with the influence of Menzies, the contribution of the eminent London planner, Lord Holford, setting up of the National Capital Development Commission, the transfer of departments from Melbourne, the emergence of the Y-Plan, and the wrangling over the site for a new and permanent Parliament House. Physical transformation of the city is covered in chapters describing the construction of Lake Burley Griffin, the new towns, and national buildings such as the Library, Gallery and High Court. Other chapters concentrate on issues and problems of growth such as the land tenure system and the abolition of land rent, the attempts to wrest more territory from New South Wales, the concept of Canberra as a social laboratory, community struggles with authority, moves towards self-government, and the restraint and recession of the late seventies. The thesis ends in 1980 when the government accepted a design and committed the first funds to build a new and permanent Parliament House, thereby providing the centrepiece for the Parliamentary Zone and conclusively confirming Canberra's status as the national capital.

Thesis (M.M. (Public Policy))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, 2013.
The South African population comprises largely of young people who make up 41.2% of the population (NYDA, 2011). The youth of the country are faced with many challenges such as unemployment; poverty; lack of skills to access the job market; limited access to education and social challenges related to HIV/AIDS; teenage pregnancies; substance abuse and crime. Since the new democratic government youth development has been a key priority for the country. The government made a concerted effort to respond to youth development by establishing the National Youth Commission (NYC) in 1996, the Umsobomvu Youth Fund (UYF) in 2001, and the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) in 2009 which resulted as a merger of the NYC and UYF. The focus of the study was to assess youth development from the NYC to NYDA and whether the NYDA will be more effective in advancing youth development in the country. The study was of a qualitative nature and used semi-structured face to face and telephonic interviews to gather data. Secondary data was also gathered from policy documents, reports, and articles related to the topic. The key findings of the research indicated that the majority of the respondents or participants felt it was the right policy decision by government to merge the NYC and UYF to form the NYDA. It was also indicated that the funding allocated to support the NYDA was not sufficient for it to fulfil its mandate according to the NYDA Act of 2008 to facilitate, coordinate and implement youth development programmes. The majority of the respondents also felt that the NYDA needed to play a more active role to better coordinate and mainstream youth development in all spheres of government.

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國立暨南國際大學
公共行政與政策學系
94
From the 19th Century, the advanced European and American countries have stepped into the line of aging countries in succession, and many developing countries follow them rapidly. In the 21st Century, aging population is a problem that all mankind must face together. According to the estimation of Council for Economic Planning and Development, in Taiwan, the old age population will reach 14% of the total population in 2019, and step into the “aged society” formally. In 2027, the old age population will reach 20% of the total population. Our population’s aging speed is obviously faster than the advanced European and American countries. There will be one old person in every five nationals, and there will be one veteran serviceman in every six old persons. The social effect brought by the increase of old age population is mainly residential, nursing, medical, and attending resources and manpower. Each residential institution of Veterans’ Affairs Commission, Executive Yuan bears the mission of special policy. In the early stages, they were established to help settle down the single veteran servicemen that came to Taiwan from the Mainland China. Later, the service scope has been expanded to the retired servicemen, and the officers and men of permanent disability. The dissertation does not deliberate from the directions of the organizational function, the achievements evaluation, or the manpower resource policy, but starts from the macroscopic angle of national competitiveness, utilizes the viewpoint and thinking way of the entire system, observes the competitive advantages and disadvantages of each residential institution of Veterans’ Affairs Commission, Executive Yuan item by item with the national competitiveness model index by means of the competitiveness models of major countries in the world, and the index concept of Taiwan national competitiveness formulated by Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission, Executive Yuan, and discusses the development and challenges of veteran serviceman residential policy of each residential institution of Veterans’ Affairs Commission, Executive Yuan, expecting to have the forward-looking enlightenment.

碩士
國立暨南國際大學
公共行政與政策學系
100
This study applies the historical structural perspective view to review establishment and development of Executive Yuan National Youth Commission (NYC, 1966-1987) before Authoritarian Transformation. In the 1960s, NYC was organized to provide employment service and vocational tranning to youths natinonwide while the government implementing human resources policies. In the 1970s, NYC started to encourage scholars and students who study aboard back to Taiwan while the government encountering international diplomacy crisis and economic issues. NYC kept its original functions in the 1980s ,however the government still decided to merge it to the other organizations in 1987.

碩士
國立臺灣大學
政治學研究所
100
Taiwan''s National Youth Commission (NYC) established in 1963, conclude its history and to be disassembled after 2010. Over four decades, NYC conduct this country''s youth policy, which altered from time to time for the changing of political economic environment of the society, reflects the transitional role of the state from authoritarian to democracy This thesis not only review the political and economic background during NYC''s establishment, but also collect and organize information in its youth policies and implementation between 1966 and 2000 in order to analyze the result of how government organization coped with the changes of political and economic environment both domestically and internationally. Despite its various policy emphases reflecting the ever-changing needs of the state during Taiwan''s political economic transition, the major policy target of NYC for decades is to maintain the youth''s employment, make sure those young labor forces can be fully utilized according the demand of the economy, so as to keep continuing development and political stabilization of the society. Besides that, as time goes by, NYC''s policy domains also gradually expand to the funding of youth entrepreneur, offer services to youth abroad and overseas compatriot youth, support volunteering services, assist youth engaging in policy making and implementation, learn by travelling, etc. The changes of ministers of NYC reflected characteristics of different periods of the development of Taiwan. By reviewing development of NYC, it will be found that in different periods the direction of policy making and achievements were affected by the changes of domestic and international environments as well as by different concepts of governance of different ministers. Taiwan has stepped into period of democratic consolidation, government’s re-organisation and adjustment might be affected by routine elections and different ruling parties. By reviewing history of NYC could be a reference to possible changes.

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management (in the field of Finance and Investment), 2016
This study examines the determinants of stock market development in a broader sense, in an effort to investigate the positive or negative impact they can have on the establishment of the national stock market in Lesotho. The focus is on the benefits enjoyed by other African countries from the establishment of stock markets, in particular, in Sub-Saharan Africa, whose effects can also be enjoyed by the Lesotho economy. I have concluded that Lesotho can also benefit from the establishment of a stock market and reforms to strengthen the institutional infrastructure are essential.
GR2018

碩士
逢甲大學
科技管理研究所
96
The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of NIS toward human capital through regional development. By means of observing the career selection we tried to figure out the influence of NIS casted to human capital. Due to the influence of NIS to human capital is hard to observe directly therefore we employed the hometown economic status as the bridging variable for the linkage between NIS and human capital. In this study, we employed a dual method. For the institutional data analysis, we collected public data of technological indicator to compare with general indicator. For the statistic analysis, we conducted a questionnaire survey in China in order to acquire first-hand data to test our hypotheses. The economic analysis was operated with Theil index by means of Excel software, and the statistics was processed in SPSS with the method of Logistic regression and nonparametric treatment. There are three major findings in this study, first, the inequality between regions in general economic development was narrowed down while the innovation gap between regions keeping enlarged gradually with time; second, the hometown economic status did influence the determination of career selection; last, the different discipline had significant influence on sectoral selection.

碩士
淡江大學
中國大陸研究所
93
Since the 1980s, in the wave of globalization and information economy, the development of human resources has been shifted to the divisions of labor and the cultivation of professional manpower. The trend has led the world higher education to continue expanding and at same time seek excellence and efficiency. In 2001, the PRC has launched the program for building up professional manpower, in a bid to strengthen national competitiveness. Its major strategy for the early 21st century is to cultivate talented people with international perspectives via the expansion of higher education and building the world-class universities. In addition to the development of graduate education of law and the MBA, the MPA (Master of Public Administration) has been developed rapidly. However, aside from enhancing the quality and quantity of the current manpower, there is another greater challenge, namely unbalanced regional development of higher education. The purpose of the study is to analyze the development of professional manpower in the early 21st century from the perspective of the differences of the regional development of higher education in the Chinese mainland. It has involved three aspects: first, understanding the formation of the new century program for building up the profession manpower and its relations with the higher education; secondly, analyzing the regional differences of manpower in the Chinese Mainland and their relationship with the development of higher education. Third, taking the development of the MPA education as an example, to further understand the regional differences in cultivating the manpower with international perspectives in the Chinese Mainland. The study has led to the following findings. First, the regional differences of the manpower development in the Chinese mainland is attributed not only to the economic development but also to the concentration of the state investment for long time in the so-called key universities, which have mostly clustered together in the eastern coastal areas. The differences have become increasingly widening with the project of building of World-class universities in the late 1990s. Secondly, from the statistics relating to the manpower quality, the eastern provinces evidently have greater competitive advantages in cultivating manpower with international perspective. In particular, the quality of the manpower in Beijing area gets ahead than other areas. The key universities in the eastern areas have also made the best of their abundant resources to attract first- rate students and the talented people to advance their academic research and development. In comparison, those universities in the inner provinces, including ordinary college and local schools, have lagged far behind for the lack of adequate resources. Thirdly, regional differences have evidently affected the development of the MPA education. Even in Beijing City, differenced can be observed between elite Qinghua and Zhongguo Renmin Daxue, and the rest five universities in the recruitment of students. The differences would be all the more prominent between the former and those in the inner provinces. All these have shown the limitation of the state in solving the regional differences in higher education.

Mozambique is undergoing intensive socio-economic reforms to reconstruct war damages and develop the nation. The reforms consist of economic liberalisation through structural adjustment and monetarist economic stabilisation, e.g. government withdrawal from economic activities, privatisation, deregulation, reduction of tariff levels on imports and tax on investments, cuts of expenditure on social services, restrictive credit system, focus on monetarism, increased taxation on individual income, etc. The nature of these reforms, on the surface, leads to morally questionable conditions. There is social chaos and disintegration, high indices of corruption, subtle recolonisation, decline of civil services, etc. At the bottom lie the market ethics and fundamentalist theological discourse by dint of which the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund deny historical consciousness, lack institutional memory, vest themselves with unquestionable international authority, dictate and impose policies without accountability for the social consequences. If there is any hope for Mozambicans, it lies in development ethics which relies heavily on the liberation motif, historical consciousness, and African Heritage.
Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology
M. Th. (Theological Ethics)

Dissertação de mestrado em Relações Internacionais
One characteristic of postmodern democratic reading of citizenship is the idea of the citizen as politically, socially, culturally, ecologically empowered and active. A complete citizen is thus one who enjoys his/her freedoms and rights, who fulfils his/her civic obligations, and who has equal opportunities to enhance his/her skills as a multifaceted individual. Within such rationale, the result of this citizen’s action shall be stronger and better democracy in an inclusive society where human rights are effectively respected. Ghana´s democracy is young and continuously defied by complex challenges. Among such challenges, there are traditional cultural and socio-political sets of beliefs and practices that conflict with the common practices of Western democracy. In this work, we argue that although citizenship in Ghana has made some improvements over the last decades, its construction and enhancement as a policy and as a set of social and cultural experiences still face severe constraints. The constraints are mostly caused by the prevalence of embedded traditions regarding the conception of power structuring and of power relations, which limit the development of democratic practices in the management of citizenship. Until these bottlenecks have been removed, citizenship will keep close to inequalities and abuse of human rights (especially of the most vulnerable, such as women, children, and the physically challenged), reflecting more the prevalence of traditional logics of power, than of democratic values in favour of human dignity. In light of this, we argue, education for a new understanding of citizenship is a fundamental path.
Uma característica da leitura democrática pós-moderna da cidadania é a ideia do cidadão como um ser politicamente, socialmente, culturalmente, economicamente e ecologicamente capacitado e ativo. O cidadão completo é aquele que goza e desfruta dos seus direitos e liberdades, que cumpre o seu dever cívico e tem oportunidade para aperfeiçoar, promover, melhorar e reforçar os seus dotes, as suas competências, as suas capacidades inatas ou habilidades como individuo pluridimensional. Na logica desta racionalidade, o resultado desta ação do cidadão será potenciadora de uma melhor e mais eficiente democracia, numa sociedade integradora, onde há respeito pelos direitos humanos. A democracia Ganesa é nova, intrincada e continuamente confrontada com desafios complexos. Somos confrontados com várias crenças e práticas da cultura tradicional e sociopolíticas incompatíveis com as práticas comuns da democracia ocidental. O nosso argumento e nossa postura neste projecto é que, apesar de considerarmos que existe algum progresso no conceito da cidadania nas últimas décadas no Gana, o seu aperfeiçoamento, valorização e construção como uma política e conjunto de experiências sociais e culturais enfrentam graves condicionalismos ou limitações. Em geral, os constrangimentos na sua maioria parte são causadas por prevalência do conceito da estruturação de poder e das relações entres os poderes enraizados na tradição, que limitam o desenvolvimento das práticas democráticas na gestão da cidadania. Enquanto estes obstáculos ou constrangimentos existirem, o conceito da cidadania manter-se-á, perto da desigualdade e abuso dos direitos humanos (especialmente dos mais vulneráveis, como as mulheres, as crianças e os fisicamente e mentalmente incapacitados), refletindo mais na prevalência da logica tradicional do poder, em vez dos valores democráticas em favor da dignidade humana. Portanto defendemos a ideia de que a educação para uma nova compreensão da cidadania é a trajetória fundamental.

This study is non-empirical and is based on the conceptualisations and theoretical foundations that gave rise to the global issue of sustainable development. It also traces the evolution and meaning of sustainable development in the South African socio-cultural context, and shows how the legacies of colonialism and apartheid contributed towards the national policy of sustainable development. This study explains the reasons for the presence (or lack) of sustainable development paradigms in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, as well as their implications for the future development of the country as a whole. There is also an analysis of the effects of the liberalisation of the water sector on the citizenry, and how this can disempower millions of poor South Africans. Finally, this study offers solutions for the lack of sustainable use of water in South Africa. Amongst the findings and conclusions are the deleterious effects of employment equity, cut-backs in municipal funding that resulted in the outsourcing of critical services such as water provision, and the deployment of party cadres to local councils.
Human Resources
M.A. (Development Studies)

Orientador: Rui Miguel Loureiro Nobre Baptista
O aparecimento dos primeiros sinais de recuperação da crise 2007 / 2010 permite aos investigadores a análise dos dados disponíveis registados no decurso da crise e a contribuição para o estudo da problemática Investimento em Inovação / Desenvolvimento Económico, especialmente em períodos de crise. Tendo sido esta uma crise financeira originada também por uma crise no crédito imobiliário, coloca-se a questão de saber qual o comportamento do Investimento em I&D com as variações do desenvolvimento económico, suas crises, abrandamento e recessão e se este comportamento difere em cenários de crises com tipologia diferente: de mudança tecnológica, desindustrialização e deslocalização, crises locais motivadas pela globalização, energéticas, alimentares, ecológicas. Esta dissertação coloca a hipótese e investiga o papel da Inovação na superação das crises de acordo com a tipologia das crises. Crises financeiras são superadas com alterações nas medidas financeiras e em inovação na regulamentação e nos procedimentos de supervisão financeira. Crises de produção, e/ou produto, por inovações nos processos e nos produtos. A ―percepção social da ineficiência do estado-da-arte‖ é apontada como o ponto de partida para a actividade inovadora, ainda antes da formulação da ―Ideia‖ e da consciencialização da ―Oportunidade‖. A ―percepção social da ineficiência‖ do mecanismo automático de mercado e da competitividade no desenvolvimento da própria Inovação, da transferência tecnológica, adopção e difusão da Inovação aparece como ponto de partida para o apoio institucional à actividade inovadora.
The appearance of the first signs of recovery from crisis 2007 / 2010 enables researchers to analyze the available data recorded during the crisis and contributing to the study of Investment in Innovation / Economic Development problematic, especially in times of crisis. Have been this one a financial crisis caused also by a crisis in housing credit, raises the question of knowing what is the behavior of investment in R & D with changes in economic development, its crises, slowdown and recession and whether this pattern differs in scenarios with different crises types: technological change, deindustrialization and relocation, local crises driven by globalization, energy crisis, food, or ecologic ones. This work raises the hypothesis and investigates the role of innovation in recovering from crises according to the typology of crises. Financial crises are overcome with changes in financial measures and innovation in the rules and procedures in financial supervision. Product and / or production crises are overcome with process and products innovations. The "social perception of the inefficiency of the state of the art" is seen as the starting point for innovative activity, even before the formulation of the "Idea" and awareness of the "Opportunity". The "perception of social inefficiency" of the market automatic mechanism and competitiveness in developing their own innovation, technology transfer, adoption and diffusion of innovation, appears as a starting point for the institutional support for innovative activity.

This thesis focuses on the issue of the development of the Šumava National Park, which is in the long-term determined by external political and social circumstances. In terms of the local development there are defined key actors whose activities and level of their cooperation affects the quality of social capital, which influences the character of horizontal and vertical social networks. An important aspect of the social-economic development of the case study area is the relationship between local municipalities and the Šumava National park management, whose activities are regulated by specific laws. Based on field survey of representatives of local development we identified key factors forming this relationship and affecting the social development of the protected area. Key words: local development, social networks, social capital, local development actors, inter- municipal cooperation, nature protection, the Šumava National Park