Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brunswick University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-99).

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (MA(Sos.))--Universiteit van Pretoria, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-80).

Poverty in Subsaharan Africa and the role of Chine in its solution worries many supporters of current development assistance. Hypothesis: The role of China is markedly different than the help from the rest of the world, it could help the countries to find their way out of poverty but it could also damage their insitutions or worsen unemployment by importing their own labor. Main target of the asian investors is extraction of natural resources, which shows in exports. In first part of the thesis will be discussed theories of poverty and models of its solution, mainly approach of Albert O. Hirschman, Jeffrey Sachs and the World bank. Will be characterized situtation in Zambia, Nigeria and South African Republic. Then will be analysed motives and especially approach of China during its involvement in Africa with focus on beforementioned countries. The point will be to characterize and evaluate impacts of chinese investments and development assistance on economies and poverty in given countries. Mainly, if the rates of growth and structure of exports changed. Will be used databases of UNCTAD and World bank. Main methods will be analysis and iduction.

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Doctoral dissertation. / Format: PDF. Bibl.

This thesis focuses on the phenomenon of remittances (money or products sent by migrants to their countries of origin) and their relation to current development discourse. The volumes of remittances are still growing and this revenue has become especially significant for developing countries. This thesis, therefore, does not only focus on the economic contribution of remittances but analyses them in a broader context. Its aim is to find whether and how do remittances contribute to the overall development of poor countries. This thesis offers a historical overview of developmental discourse and followed by specification of four key concepts of current development (empowerment, ownership, good governance and sustainable development), whereby this thesis constitutes a framework for further analysis. Remittances are substantially connected to the concepts of empowerment and ownership. They enable the recipients to meet their needs more freely and decide how to invest their money. From the point of views of good government concept, it is important, that remittances can help to put more pressure on the democratization of developing countries. Fulfilment of these concepts, as well as the stability of remittances, implies, that this revenue supports sustainable development in poor countries. This thesis is...

Diss. Uppsala : Univ., 2004.

VIANA, Camilla Paiva. Saneamento básico em áreas de vulnerabilidade socioeconômica: uma avaliação do Programa de Drenagem Urbana de Fortaleza (DRENURB). 2015. 118f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós Graduação em Avaliação de Políticas Públicas, Fortaleza (CE), 2015. / Submitted by Gustavo Daher (gdaherufc@hotmail.com) on 2017-05-05T17:42:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_cpviana.pdf: 2321744 bytes, checksum: 3426b61e74584df16dd3b3fb1fa69275 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-05-08T13:12:13Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_cpviana.pdf: 2321744 bytes, checksum: 3426b61e74584df16dd3b3fb1fa69275 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-08T13:12:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_cpviana.pdf: 2321744 bytes, checksum: 3426b61e74584df16dd3b3fb1fa69275 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo estudar as políticas públicas de saneamento básico e, em especial, avaliar o Programa de Drenagem Urbana de Fortaleza (Drenurb), verificando quais foram os efeitos provocados por suas ações no período de 2010 a 2012. O Drenurb corresponde à primeira iniciativa sistematizada da Prefeitura Municipal de Fortaleza para a captação das águas pluviais em meio urbano, visando a minorar os transtornos causados pela incidência de alagamentos. Para a realização desta pesquisa, optamos pela metodologia de estudo de caso ao analisarmos duas obras, priorizando duas perspectivas: a dos moradores que permaneceram no local onde a obra foi realizada e a dos indivíduos em situação de extrema pobreza que foram indenizados para que a obra tivesse prosseguimento. O intuito da avaliação consiste na percepção das transformações positivas e negativas provenientes das ações executadas e suas reverberações no espaço da cidade e na vida dos indivíduos. Para tanto, este trabalho prezou por refazer a trajetória das primeiras ações que constituíram a política de saneamento, até o período atual, contextualizando-a com outras políticas que visam à transformação do espaço urbano. Para alcançarmos os objetivos propostos, foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas e entrevistas em profundidade. Os resultados dessa avaliação apontam para as seguintes questões: (1) a população remanescente reconhece as benfeitorias do programa, no entanto não sabe o que de fato é a drenagem e utiliza as galerias de coleta das águas pluviais para outros fins; (2) não houve, por parte da Prefeitura, o estabelecimento de canais de comunicação ou de avaliação da atuação do programa junto à população atendida; (3) as moradoras indenizadas manifestaram desejo de ter permanecido no logradouro anterior, mesmo que continuassem a residir em habitações extremamente precárias; (4) as famílias indenizadas não foram esclarecidas quanto aos parâmetros que basearam o cálculo do valor a ser pago pela desapropriação de suas residências; (5) o Drenurb atendeu as expectativas da população em relação às melhorias advindas da obra, mas executou as ações de saneamento de modo desarticulado às outras políticas que influenciam a dinâmica de ocupação do espaço urbano.

The use of group lending for poverty alleviation is a widespread feature of modern microfinance. The structure of joint-liability credit - if one member defaults the others are held financially responsible - produces a natural tension between a borrower's social and economic interests. This study integrates theory from economics, sociology, and behavioural experiments to address the question, "How do social and economic mechanisms interact to shape a microcredit group's financial behaviour?" The empirical analysis involves an original dataset from a microfinance institution in Sierra Leone. The total dataset includes 7,025 joint-liability borrowers involved in 47,931 repayment transactions from 2005 to 2011. The empirical methods used are diverse: ethnographic fieldwork, GPS spatial analysis, social affiliation survey design, and multilevel statistical analysis of loan performance data. The original work is structured as three distinct papers. In the first paper, I examine social collateral, the formal use of a borrower's relationships as security against loan default. How does a group's spatial structure affect the efficacy of social collateral? Spatial concentration improves a group's economic performance up to a certain level after which the effect reverses and performance declines. The relationship is driven by a social trade-off between ability and willingness to enforce the loan. Further, groups that consist of multiple spatial fragments produce worse performance. Spatially fragmented groups are prone to splitting into social factions. In the second paper, I question what drives the self-selection process of microcredit group formation. The results show that group leaders prefer members with pre-existing social ties, who are spatially proximate, and have matching business types. The preference for socio-spatial factors is likely motivated by reducing the risk of strategic default by group members. In the third paper, I explore how economic cooperation in small groups evolves over years of repeated interaction. Despite the selective retention of better performing groups, average cooperation rates consistently decline, in terms of contribution and effort. Further, variance across groups continues to increase over 30 months of repeated interaction, suggesting that convergence to a stable cooperation rate has not occurred. Given that group lending exhibits many of the factors found to promote cooperation in laboratory experiments, it is surprising to find such a marked decline in this field setting. Overall, this thesis contributes to economic sociology by dissecting the difficult trade-offs between social and economic motives in group lending and offers policy implications for microfinance institutions regarding group formation heuristics, contract design, and loan management.