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  • Do Community Driven Development (CDD) Programs Improve Social Relationships measured by Perceived Discrimination among Different Ethnicities in Nepal?

    Creator:
    Dhakal, Gunjan
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    Community driven development (CDD) is one of the recent approaches in the development arena that integrates people into mainstream development. Bringing people together into the development prospects through social capital is an important aspect of this approach that harnesses greater social inclusion and wider participation at the grass root level....
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    presented on May 9, 2011 APPROVED: Patrick Emerson, representing Economics

  • Hungary's Declining Democracy : A Study of Organizational Power in Hungarian Politics

    Creator:
    Sandoval, Jonathan
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    Scholars posit that the successful consolidation of post-communist Central and Eastern European democracies can be linked to their subsequent accession to the European Union (EU). This led observers to assume that the continued democratization of Hungarian society was assured due to their integration into EU institutions. However, since the 2010...
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    Sandoval presented on Jun 14th, 2018 APPROVED: Sarah Henderson, representing

  • Entrepreneurial policy in South Eastern Europe : the role of culture, economics and regulation in augmenting MSME development

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    Braybrooks, Melissa
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    MSME development has emerged at the forefront of economic policy, with the majority of policy mechanisms aimed at creating the regulatory and institutional environments, which have historically proven to augment entrepreneurial activity. In the case of Europe a large portion of entrepreneurial policy resides within the European Community framework, however...
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    appreciation to her graduate committee members Sarah Henderson, Patrick Emerson, and Roger Hammer, in

  • The Influence of NGO Strategies on the Sustainability of Biosand Water Filters in Cambodia

    Creator:
    Whinnery, Jaynie L.
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    This essay evaluates the effectiveness of NGO strategies to promote program sustainability using a case study of two NGOs that install biosand water filters in Cambodia. While the ownership-focused strategy of cost-sharing is the most commonly used and studied, there is evidence to suggest that certain more neglected strategies can...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Dr. Sarah L. Henderson This essay evaluates the effectiveness of NGO strategies to

  • Family Planning Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Failure of Policy Transfer

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    Daniel Andrianaivosoa, Landy Miary
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    After Colonization and since the beginning of the globalization era, governments in developing countries have been restricted in implementing certain policies and reforms, often being forced to accept or borrow policies from former colonizers or other developed countries and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Previous studies found that borrowing policy often leads...
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    June 7, 2016 APPROVED: Patrick Emerson, representing Economics Elizabeth

  • Positive graphical lasso estimation of sparse inverse covariance matrices

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    Logan, Paul
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    We explore the possibility of estimating sparse inverse covariance matrices when for scientific reasons the covariance matrix is restricted to be a non-negative matrix. The process mirrors the graphical lasso process developed by Friedman and others(2008) that did not have this additional constraint.Accordingly, the Lasso procedure is done through coordinate...
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  • Donating Democracy: Measuring the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in Central Asia

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    Michaels, Julia
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    The promotion of democracy abroad has become a critical national security objective for the United States. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, newly independent states have received millions in aid to facilitate their transition to democracy. A significant portion of this funding has been administered by the United States...
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    and unconditional emotional support; the Michaels family; Dr. Sarah Henderson, for giving me so much

  • Applying a Collaboration Model to Collaboration Corvallis

    Creator:
    Dugan, Dennis
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    Oregon State University and the City of Corvallis have recently embarked on a three-year series of meetings and forums (‘Collaboration Corvallis’) designed to increase collaboration between the two organizations and other relevant stakeholders as well as find solutions to worsening problems in the areas of parking, noise and student population...
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     recent  definition  of  collaborative  governance  has  been  offered  by  Emerson

  • Translating the Animal

    Creator:
    Owen, Melody
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    My thesis in Environmental Arts and Humanities concerned the idea of animal language, as well as other posthuman ideas around animality and indistinction. I also explored virtual space as it relates to human identity, our notions of reality and perception, and the way contemporary digital artists approach animal subjectivity in...
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    thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected