This dissertation examines the so-called revival of local traditions in reform-era China. It compares the different paths of adapting local traditions to market transitions and a changing political landscape. Three questions guide this study: 1) given state suppression of tradition, to what extent is power and society in localities still structured by traditional practices? 2) What determines how a particular community can provide support to individual members? 3) Does the cultural legacy of a community constrain how the community can respond to new situations? And how easily can a community reformulate the past to suit the present need? This study argues that local communities have actively used traditional practices to build community strength and deal with a variety of community issues arising from changes in the political landscape and socio-economic situations. Traditional practices are not nostalgia, but are the base for collective action and social organization in rural communities. The revival of traditional practices constructs community identity, defines how one relates to others, and instructs how one experiences the group to which one belongs. This study shows that the same sets of cultural practices and symbols with different arrangements can produce different degrees of community solidarity and strength. Variation on the use of traditional practices for building community in different localities is explained through an interactive model with a number of factors jointly shaping the community strength. These are the local legacy, the state, the new market economy, and interests of individual community members. These factors have different interactive relations in each local community, and result in different degrees of community strength. This study adds to our understanding of reform era China in two particular aspects. The first is to demonstrate how the collective aspect of traditional practices has worked in rural communities. The second is to demystify the effectiveness of Chinese culture on economic development. My study does not treat Chinese culture as a holistic system. Rather, it shows that in economic behavior there is nothing essentially Chinese, such as using lineage or family networks. Cultural utility, such as strong and effective lineage networks, is a result of complex interaction among top-down state forces, the market, local culture, and individual interests, and cannot be duplicated simply out of functional utility and rational calculation. / Sociology

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Political Science, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], ii, 71 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-71).

Real estate market is the topic I have chosen for my thesis. The thesis focuses on the problem of real estate prices in the Czech Republic. The price trend can be tracked just since 1990s. As a result of missing relevant data no complete analysis of real estate market has been published so far. This is also one of the reasons I have chosen this particular topic. The first part of my work covers features and special characteristics of the Czech real estate market. It is important to describe the economic situation and the role of the state before analysing single factors to influence real estate market. Therefore macroeconomic indicators and their development can be found in this part. The financial crisis and its impact cannot be ignored either. The second part of the work is pointed to the analysis of the factors that influence prices on the real estate market. The aim of the work is to describe the development of the factors and assess their importance. The factors can be divided into supply and demand oriented and the majors are: demographics, disposable income, interest rate and building development. Price development on the RE market is also described in the work. At the end of the work the introduced facts are summed up and a try to a prognosis of the future development is made.

This thesis focuses on the problem of real estate prices in the Czech Republic and its progress in context of economic development of the Czech economy. The real estate prices are an important indicator of economic maturity of the country and its incidental adverse development affect strongly banking sector and consequently the whole economy. In the first part of the work are described and analyzed causations of the economic development of the Czech Republic for providing a frame of conditions of our economy. The second part of the work is focused on the Czech real estate market, its specifics in comparison with other markets. There are summarized starting points of the previous economic era and there are described and analyzed economic influences on the real estate market. Further there is given account of the real estate prices development in detail. Preceding findings are synthesized in the final part of the work and in addition there is sketched out possible development of real estate prices in the near future.

The main goal, of this work on the topic The real estate development in The Czech Republic in association with the global economic crisis, is to find out the essential determinants, which can influence the real estate market. In last period we are witness of discussion on the topic price bubble. This bubble should have been to see in date until 2008. In my work I will try to analyze, if it is true or not. The essential output of my work is analysis of relationship of real estate's price development in relation to whole economy. Because of economic crisis is better view of whole analysis.

yes / International tourism is now the predominant industry driving growth in many small island developing states (SIDS). Governments of small islands in the Indian Ocean, Caribbean and Pacific have seemingly put most of their eggs into one development basket – the all-inclusive holiday in a luxury hotel, resort or cruise ship. While this industry generates employment, foreign direct investment, and income for island governments and the private sector, it also brings with it dependencies which are borne from the transnational ownership of these all-inclusive accommodations, the risks from exogenous factors – many of which are tied to the wider security of the global system – as well as the domestic economies in the source markets in Europe and North America. We reflect upon these dependencies and risks through a case study of the Seychelles based on fieldwork research conducted in 2012. Our findings highlight that the international tourism industry in the Seychelles – even in a situation of high or growing demand – creates structurally driven precarity for tourism workers who are predominantly low paid, low-skilled, and increasingly recruited from overseas. These findings provide new evidence that contributes to the growing research into tourism in IPE. Our findings highlight the precarious condition of labour in this fast growing service sector of the world economy and in so doing also adds much needed empirical insights from the South to recent debates about an emerging precariat in contemporary capitalism.

This thesis studies the determinants and outcomes of the skill systems in Mexico and Turkey, two crucial cases of middle-income countries (MICs). Despite the similarities in their previous institutional environments and links to the global economy, Turkey has experienced higher economic growth and better social development compared to Mexico. This PhD project focuses on the Mexican and Turkish skill systems, which have been significant institutions that affect the (different) economic and social characteristics of advanced industrialised countries in the literature on comparative capitalisms (CCs). This study builds its theoretical approach on the arguments of CCs literature and the claims of globalisation, where it draws from the studies on global value chains (GVCs). It scrutinises the patterns of convergence due to globalisation and ongoing divergence because of the variation of institutional structures. It examines the complementarities and outcomes of the skill systems, which will then help to understand the divergence of development experiences between Mexico and Turkey. This PhD project carries out a multi-level research and focuses the empirical study on auto parts-automotive value chains (AACs), which is an important industry for many MICs including Mexico and Turkey. The multi-level research first includes a macro-level study of local institutions in Mexico and Turkey, as well as the convergence patterns through the AACs. This is complemented with a micro-level analysis of firms' strategies to find workers with technical skills in production functions. The findings show that while there is some convergence in the Mexican and Turkish auto parts producers' skill needs, firms from these two countries adopt different strategies to address their needs. The distinctive national institutions in Mexico and Turkey, which are shaped by the differences in the state's involvement, are the main reasons for this divergence. The differences between the Mexican and Turkish skill systems have created different outcomes for both the firms and workers in these countries, and hence are expected to have contributed to their diverging development paths.

工業化為促進經濟發展的主要策略之一，過去為便利興辦工業者取得設廠用地，經工 業主管機關核發工業用地證明書，即可租購工業用地外農地設廠，是項規定雖於民國 六十九年之沚，然零星工廠因擴展工業之需要，依規定仍可申請租購毗連農地變更為 工業使用，零星工廠對農地利用是否造成某種影響？有何防制措施？緣此引發本文之 研究。 本文之內容共分六章﹕第一章緒論，包括研究動機、目的、範圍等；第二章為農地利 用管制法令及農工爭地概況探討；第三章為零星工廠設置緣起及其現況探討；第四章 為零星工廠對農地利用之影響；第五章為防制對策；第六章為結論與建議。 本研究主要目的有三﹕（一）研擬農地變更工業使用之審查準則，確保優良農地（二 ）研擬零星工廠匡導策略（三）對於有污染性的零星工廠，加強其污染防治措施，以 減少其對農生產環境之影響。 至於本文之研究方法係以問卷作實地訪查，並就調查資料輸入電腦作次數分配與實證 分析，茲將本研究之成果摘述如下﹕（一）為維護優良農地資源，零星工廠之擴廠以 使用判近工業區用地為原則，特定農業區農牧用地及農地重劃之農地不得作為擴廠用 地。（二）有污染性的工業其排放廢水系統應與農田灌溉排水設施分離並規定其購置 污染防治設備，審核擴廠之審查小組應增列環保及水利單位（三）屬嚴重污染性工業 ，除開闢必要通路、增設防法污染設備用地外，禁止其擴廠（四）以允許原廠地變更 仗用，免收電力擴建補助費、原廠地出售其土地增值稅按最低稅率減免地價稅、房屋 稅及投資抵減等獎勵措施，鼓勵零星工廠遷廠。

The theme of my diploma thesis is Development Activities of Town of Lomnice nad Lužnicí. The main gain of my thesis is to evaluate activities of the selected period and to elaborate the development activities for the future according the variability of financial resources. I choose the period between 2011- 2018. Conclusions of this diploma thesis can also serve the current management of the town. It could provide them with an overview of the town´s economics situation and its development.

Ever since the military takeover of 1952, the post-monarchic political system of Egypt has been dependent upon a variety of mechanisms and structures to establish and further consolidate its powerbase. Among those, an intertwined web of what could be described as ‘patronage politics’ emerged as one of the main foundations of these tools and was utilized by the regime to establish the fundamentals of its rule. Throughout the post-1952 era, political patrons and respective clients were existent in Egyptian politics, shaping, to a great extent, the policies implemented by Egypt's rulers at the apex of the political system, as well as the tactics orchestrated by the populace within the middle and lower echelons of the polity. This study aims at analyzing the factors that ensured the durability of patronage networks within the Egyptian polity, primarily focusing on the sort of social structural reconfiguration that has been taking place in the popular communities of Egypt in the beginning of the 21st Century. Dissecting the area of Misr Al Qadima as an exemplar case study of Cairo’s popular quarters, the research mainly focuses on examining the role of the lesser notables, those middle patrons and clients that exist on the lower levels of the Egyptian polity within the ranks of the National Democratic Party and the Muslim Brotherhood. Henceforth, the sociopolitical agency of these lesser notabilities shall constitute the prime concern of the writing and, in doing so; this research also attempts to draw some linkage between the micro-level features of the popular polities of Cairo and the macro-level realities of the Egyptian polity at large, in the contemporary period.