BACKGROUND World Health Organization recommends at least four pregnancy check-ups for normal pregnancies. Ministry of Health and Population Nepal has introduced various strategies to promote prenatal care and institutional delivery to reduce maternal and child deaths. However, maternal health service utilization is low in some selected socio-economic and ethnic groups. Hence, this study aims to...

One debate among feminist scholars of the welfare state is whether it supports women’s subordination or emancipation. Since the 1980s, the French state apparatus has been experiencing a conflict of values, between feminism and familialism. The research presented here probed how these distinct institutional-level conceptions of gender might be manifest at the interactional level. Analysis is bas...

journal of accounting advances (j.a.a) vol. 2, no. 2, fall & winter 2010, ser. 59/3     extended abstract   an investigation of agency theory and signaling theory in dividend policies: the role of institutional investors   dr. g. r. karami         dr. s. mehrani               h. eskandar tehran university   introduction        dividend has a special position among decision makers. dividend poli...

Abstract North Korea today is a most unusual post-socialist state. Market actors and market prices are integral to economic life, but private property remains illegal, enterprise outside the household de jure non-existent. In such an institutional context, some processes more autonomous in relation state, while others embedded within state structures. this article, we offer theoretical account ...

The universalization of schooling has triggered issues about the organization and management more inclusive education systems. Several transnational organizations have produced guidelines that contributed to concept being incorporated into national educational policies. To identify ideas underpinning this concept, we mobilized a policy cycle theoretical–methodological proposal. From thematic an...

Teacher autonomy is viewed very differently: one teacher may view autonomy as a means to gain substantial freedom from interference or supervision; another may view it as the freedom to develop collegial relationships and accomplish tasks that extend beyond the classroom; and even some others may perceive it as a means for principals to avoid their duties (Frase and Sorenson, 1992). Although th...

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