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  • Teaching business to the poor : the effectiveness of business development services within microenterprise development

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    Wilson, Taylor Anne
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    Many economic development methods over the years have tried to solve the problem of poverty with varied success. Microenterprise development is a method that works with the poor to create small self-run businesses to increase their income, and therefore bring more freedom from disease illiteracy and discrimination. Within microenterprise development...
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    interest rates that it incurs (Dawson, 1997, p. 3). Some believe that the provision of business

  • A Holistic Model: A risk assessment model for internal conflict and case study of the Democratic Republic of Congo

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    Gharib, Camron I.
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    Internal conflicts are detrimental to a country’s development for a number of reasons. Therefore, it is beneficial to identify the factors that lead to internal conflict. The three perspectives used to understand why internal conflicts occur are the systemic lens, the individualist perspective, and an interpretation that emphasizes the role...
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    . Key Words: Internal Conflict, Democratic Republic of Congo, Civil War, Causes. Corresponding e

  • The Use of RT News in the Projection of Putin's Foreign Policy Narrative

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    Marlega, Alec S.
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    Far from the decimated state it was during the 1990s, Russia has risen to become a key player in many international events, often in opposition to the West. In particular, President Putin and his allies have invested heavily in increasing both Russia’s soft power, or its attractiveness to other countries,...
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    . Key Words: Soft Power, Hybrid Warfare Corresponding e-mail address: marlegaa@oregonstate.edu

  • A Review of Microfinance: What do we know?

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    Lumianski, Erica
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    Microfinance boomed as a development trend in the early 2000s as it was appealing to varying political perspectives and was also seen as a major innovation in poverty reduction policy. Starting with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1976, microfinance spread to Latin America in the 1980s, and later to...
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    Corresponding e-mail address: erica.lumianski@gmail.com ©Copyright by Erica

  • The consolidation of democracy in Mongolia

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    Unitan, Ryan
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    The case of Mongolia’s democratization remains unexplained by the various theories of democratization and democratic consolidation. The purpose of this thesis is to consider the unique case of Mongolian democratization, how well this case is described by various theories of democratization and reach both a description of how Mongolia’s democratization...
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    Corresponding e-mail address: Sarah.Henderson@oregonstate.edu ©Copyright by