Thesis (M.A.I.S.)--Oregon State University, 2010. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-44). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1930. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Diss.--Bremen--Univ., 1996. Titre de soutenance : Politischer Raum und soziale Bewegung in Nicaragua : Liberalismus, Sandino, Sandinismus. / Notes en bas de p. Bibliogr. p.391-414.

Magíster en Gestión y Dirección de Empresas / El presente plan negocios contempla la formación de una empresa facilitadora de turismo médico en Nicaragua enfocado en atender, guiar, recibir y acompañar en el país a pacientes residentes en Estados Unidos que tengan la necesidad de realizarse tratamientos médicos de mediana o baja complejidad fuera de ese país, a través de alianzas con hospitales certificados en Nicaragua. La manera de captar a los clientes será mediante una alianza estratégica con un facilitador médico llamado Health Travel Tours el cual se enfoca en atender a personas de los estados del medio oeste y sur este de Estados Unidos, por lo tanto la fuente principal de ingresos de la empresa serán las comisiones obtenidas de los hospitales a los cuales se les refiera pacientes. Se ofrecerán paquetes de tratamientos médicos en hospitales certificados que a su vez incluirán el hospedaje en hoteles boutique durante el tratamiento, por lo que otra fuente de ingresos será las comisiones obtenidas de los hoteles, y una tercera fuente de ingresos provendrá de las comisiones obtenidas con las tour operadoras. En el primer año se pretende atender a 549 pacientes lo que corresponde a una participación de mercado de 25% en la industria en Nicaragua; y posicionar a la empresa como el facilitador médico con mejor servicio en el país por medio de la oferta de procedimientos odontológicos, de pérdida de peso, oftalmológicos y cosméticos. La oferta de destinos turísticos incluirá tours a playas, volcanes, sitios históricos y lagos y lagunas. Para promocionar el servicio se ha calculado un presupuesto de marketing de $46,552.50 el cual será utilizado para asistir a congresos de turismo médico en Estados Unidos y Europa, además de la creación de una página web, elaboración de merchandising, pagar anuncios en Google Adwords y pautación en revistas de turismo médico. Además de la alianza con el facilitador médico en Estados Unidos, la empresa tendrá alianzas con dos hoteles boutique en la ciudad de Managua, Hotel Contempo y Elements Hotel Boutique, así como con una experimentada empresa tour operadora llamada Nahual Tours. La inversión inicial del proyecto asciende a $196.241 e incluye el capital de trabajo y la compra de mobiliario, equipo de oficina y equipo de transporte, dicho capital tendrá que ser aportado por los inversionistas interesados, ya que el sistema financiero nicaragüense no presta recursos para negocios con menos de 2 años de operación. El período de recuperación de la inversión se ha calculado en 56 meses (4.7 años), con una tasa interna de retorno de 23.5% y un VAN de $19.257 e ingresos promedio para los primeros 5 años de $1.054.546.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Butler University, 1984. / "A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts." "In cooperation with Christian Theological Seminary." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-93).

This masters thesis presents the stories of Doña Eugdocia and Doña Carmen: two parteras empíricas living and working in the area of Estelí, Nicaragua. The stories were constructed from interviews with the parteras empíricas and are influenced by testimonial life history research methods. The stories, complemented by interviews with Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA) trainers, locally available training manuals, and interviews with other parteras empíricas function as a counter-narrative to global (TBA) discourse revealing the important but little understood contributions these women make to their respective communities and health care systems. The stories demonstrate important parallels between the parteras empíricas narrowing role in Nicaragua and global TBA discourse regarding their practices. The stories also dispel the notion of the traditional as signifying incapable of change. Instead, considering the parteras empíricas story within a postcolonial framework using Jordans (an anthropologist) conceptualization of authoritative knowledge demonstrates that the parteras empíricas positioning of biomedicine as authoritative is a survival mechanism and not a devaluation of their own epistemological orientations.

This masters thesis presents the stories of Doña Eugdocia and Doña Carmen: two parteras empíricas living and working in the area of Estelí, Nicaragua. The stories were constructed from interviews with the parteras empíricas and are influenced by testimonial life history research methods. The stories, complemented by interviews with Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA) trainers, locally available training manuals, and interviews with other parteras empíricas function as a counter-narrative to global (TBA) discourse revealing the important but little understood contributions these women make to their respective communities and health care systems. The stories demonstrate important parallels between the parteras empíricas narrowing role in Nicaragua and global TBA discourse regarding their practices. The stories also dispel the notion of the traditional as signifying incapable of change. Instead, considering the parteras empíricas story within a postcolonial framework using Jordans (an anthropologist) conceptualization of authoritative knowledge demonstrates that the parteras empíricas positioning of biomedicine as authoritative is a survival mechanism and not a devaluation of their own epistemological orientations.

Th.--Department of human and economic geography--Göteborg university, 2001. / Bibliogr. p. 295-307.

For over two decades, development practitioners, scholars, and institutions have celebrated microfinance—broadly defined as the provision of small-scale financial services to the world’s poor—as an effective tool for poverty alleviation and local economic development. Critics of microfinance, however, suggest that there is little clear evidence to support the claims that microfinance lifts the poor out of poverty and fosters local economic development. In this thesis, I explore some of the challenges to microfinance in northern Nicaragua by exploring a case study of a group of borrowers who have confronted microfinance and exposed some serious problems. Since 2008, thousands of microcredit clients in Nicaragua have expressed their extreme frustration with microfinance and its detrimental effects in their lives. In this case, Nicaraguans caught up in the microfinance scheme risk losing their homes and livelihoods and falling into greater poverty. These borrowers, organized as El Movimiento de Pequeños Productores, Comerciantes y Microempresarios del Norte (the Movement of Producers, Merchants and Small Business Owners of the North), demand new terms on their microcredit debts and new client protections. I explore the reaction and the demands of these borrowers and their direct and indirect critiques of the microcredit sector, its practices and its alleged goals. I argue that the resistance of the MPCN reveals the political and economic rationale and neoliberal ideology behind microcredit as a poverty alleviation intervention, and their contestation challenges its underlying logic. These critiques and demands provide us with a foundation for rethinking the prevailing market-oriented approaches to development. / text