<p>Today it is well known that institutions have a significant impact on growth and development. Less research has been investigating how institutions and in-stitutional quality affect trade. This thesis will specifically examine the effect contract enforcement has on bilateral trade. Secure property rights and con-tract enforcement are important for a country’s productivity and growth.</p><p>The empirical analysis is based on the gravity model of trade to examine what explains the trade flows and more importantly what impact contract enforce-ment has on the bilateral trade. Instead of using one of the many existing sub-jective measurements of contract enforcement, an objective measurement called Contract-Intensive Money (CIM) is used.</p><p>The results show that contract enforcement of the exporting country has a greater impact on exports than that of the importing country. As expected the institutionally dependent sector of machinery and transport equipment requires a higher level of contract enforcement than the standardized food sector. It implies that the exporting country will have a comparative advantage in export-ing complex products and import simple products. The results also indicates that the effect on exports is higher when there is development of a country’s poor contract enforcement rather than improvement in already high-quality contract enforcement in the partner country.</p>

Thesis (Doctoral)--Universität, Bonn, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

VPU Socialinių mokslų fakulteto Sociologijos ir Politologijos katedros Politinės sociologijos magistrantūros studentas Mindaugas Milašius. Darbo tema - valstybės paramos jaunai šeimai politikos vertinimas (VPU studentų atvėju). Darbo tikslas. Išanalizuoti kaip jaunimas vertina valstybės teikiamą paramą ir kokios paramos labiausiai pasigenda. Uždaviniai: 1. Pateikti paramos jaunai šeimai politikos sampratą; 2. Išnagrinėti paramos jaunai šeimai politiką ES šalyse; 3. Išanalizuoti Lietuvos valstybės teikiamą paramą jaunoms šeimos; 4. Remiantis atliktu tyrimu, nustatyti paramos jaunai šeimai Lietuvoje vertinimą (VPU studentų atveju). Tyrimo objektas – valstybės parama jaunai šeimai. Tyrimo dalykas – paramos jaunai šeimai Lietuvoje vertinimas. Hipotezės: 1. Jaunos šeimos, kurios dar neturi vaikų, menkai domisi teikiama valstybės parama - pasitvirtino; 2. Žinios apie informaciją savivaldybės internetiniuose tinklalapiuose aktualesnės respondentams, kurie turi vaikų - jie dažniau nei respondentai, kurie neturi vaikų bei tokios informacijos gauti nėra motyvuoti, žino apie galimybę gauti lengvatinę paskolą ir dažniau ima lengvatines paskolas būstui įsigyti - pasitvirtino; 3. Respondentai, kurie turi daugiau nei vieną ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaiką, skirtingai nuo respondentų, kurie vaikų neturi arba turi vieną vaiką, svarbiausiomis institucijomis, formuojančių bei įgyvendinančių paramos šeimai politiką įvardina Socialinės apsaugos ir darbo bei Švietimo ir mokslo ministerijas bei teigia... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Mindaugas Milašius, Political sociology master’s degree student of VPU, Social sciences faculty Sociology and political sciences department. The subject of the work is the evaluation of the policy of the polity‘s support to young family (VPU students’ case). The purpose of the work is to analyze how youth evaluate polity‘s support and which kind of support they miss the most. Tasks: 1. To present the policy‘s conception of the support to the young family. 2. To analyze the policy of the support to the young family in the EU. 3. To analyze the support that Lithuanian polity gives to the young families; 4. To ascertain the evaluation of the support to the young family ir Lithuania with reference to the fulfilled investigation (VPU students case). The object of the investigation – the polity‘s support to the young family. The point of the investigation is the evaluation of the support to the young family in Lithuania. Hypotheses: 1. Young families that don‘t have children yet are very little interested in the polity‘s support – was proved; 2. News about information in institution‘s of local administration webs are more urgent to respondents that have children. They more often know about this possibility to get the favourable loan than respondents that don‘t have children and are not motivated to get such information and they take the favourable loans for buying a flat more often – was proved. 3. Respondents that have more than one preschool-children differently from respondents... [to full text]

According to this study, research indicates that there is not a lot of information surrounding the focus on prayer in church polity and therefore attention is lacking in this field during the training of office bearers and thus the content and composition of prayers leaves one untouched. The focus of this study is a theoretical approach to the place and content of prayer in church polity according to the practical ministry of prayer during three consecutive synods of the Reformed Churches in South Africa. The content of chapter one focuses on the idea that both Scripture and theological literature offer material to be integrated into a synthesis of what the ius constituendum imply and where to the practise as ius constitutum is measured with the purpose on an increased focus on prayer in church polity. Chapter two elaborates on the different aspects of prayer in conjunction with church polity in which the communal prayer of church leaders imposes certain requirements to the prayer leader in connection with the use of language, content and agenda that is embedded on the confession that Christ is the Head of and reigns over his Church. In the third chapter the focus is fixed on the four core elements of the church: unity, holiness, catholicity, apostolicity and the implication it has on prayer in the reformed church polity regarding more explicit intercession in prayer. The fourth chapter is an empirical examination of 121 prayers that was recorded during the 2003, 2006 and 2009 synods of the GKSA in accordance to the ius constituendum as discussed in chapters two and three summarised under twenty headings. The final chapter suggests corrections based on hermeneutical interaction between the ius constituendum and ius constitutum and resulting in improved formulated prayers that focus on the affairs of the agenda. Prayer ministry should not be left to the improvisation of the moment, but detail preparation should be done. Errors which were pointed out in this study, should thus be prevented. In church government, prayers should reflect the agenda in all prayer elements focusing on the kingdom of God from within the church with an outward spiral to the whole cosmos. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Church Polity))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011

This thesis is a historical study and evaluation of the form of church government practised by the Particular Baptists of the 17th and 18th centuries, from the years 1650 to 1750. This study is based on confessional statements, the ecclesiological literature, and the extant church books of the Particular Baptists. It is shown that the Particular Baptists practised a definitive form of church government known traditionally as Independency, similar to that expounded by John Owen, minus infant baptism. Under the principle of the autonomy of the church the Particular Baptists practised believer’s baptism, an explicit church membership, and upheld covenant theology. Under the principle of the headship of Christ, they practised the separation of church and state, upheld the divine right of the magistrate, and also believed in the liberty of conscience. Under the principle of rule by elders the majority of the Particular Baptists practised a plurality of elders in which there was a distinction made between the roles of the pastor or minister and the ruling elders, although they occupy the same basic office of rule. However, deviation from a plural eldership took place, leading to the singlepastor- and-multiple-deacons situation, accompanied by the disappearance of ruling elders and the practice of congregational democracy in governance. This arrangement is characteristic of modern Congregationalism. Under the principle of the communion of churches the regional associations of churches accomplished much good, while a number of issues remained unresolved, including open and closed communion, congregational hymn singing, and the training of ministers. In the final chapter, the study attempts to resolve some ecclesiological issues controverted among Reformed Baptists today by applying the lessons learned from the Particular Baptists. To the Particular Baptists, Independency was the jus divinum (divinely ordained) form of church government used by God as the vehicle to carry out the Great Commission with a view to establishing biblically ordered churches, which upheld the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith. These three components of church life − mission-mindedness, biblical church order, and the 1689 Confession of Faith − arose from the thorough biblicism of the Particular Baptists. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Church and Dogma History))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Full text release at OhioLINK's ETD Center delayed at author's request

Thesis (Ph. D. in Religion)--Vanderbilt University, May 2008. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 2006. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-86).

Thesis (Th. D.)--Concordia Seminary, 1988. / Contains Greek, Ethiopic and English translations. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 202-210).

Thesis (Th. M.)--St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, 1977. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 358-369).