Every year, the Joint Admission Board (JAB) is tasked to determine those students who are expected to join various Kenyan public universities under the government sponsorship scheme. This exercise is usually extensive because of the large number of qualified students compared to the very limited number of slots at various institutions and the shortage of funding from the government. Further, th...

In this paper we provide an analytical account of the mechanisms through which globalization, in the sense of increased foreign trade and long-term capital flows, affects the lives of the rural poor in developing countries (in their capacity as workers, consumers, recipients of public services or users of common property resources). Globalization can cause many hardships for the rural poor, but...

This dissertation evaluates the role of historical agrarian institutions in wage bargaining between large landowners and landless workers in the Indian countryside. The colonial land revenue system in India led to severe economic inequality and concentration of political power in certain parts of the country and this power imbalance continues to be relevant even seven decades after the colonial...

rural countryside, taking a variety of forms and crossing many boundaries. The Tenth Federal Reserve District comprises a broad range of rural regions, from traditional agricultural areas in the Plains to highgrowth high-amenity rural areas in the Rocky Mountain West. The range of issues confronting these regions is as varied as the district’s topography. Some of its counties have enjoyed stron...

Kurumların hizmetlerine muhatap olan kitleler ile daha etkileşimli ve yüksek memnuniyete dayalı bir ilişkinin sürdürülmesi etkili iletişim halkla ilişkiler çalışmaları mümkün hale gelmektedir. Yeni bin yılın şartlarında sosyal devlet ilkesi gereği yurttaş memnuniyetini refahını ön planda tutan kamu kurum kuruluşları açısından da önemli araç haline Yurttaşlarla bu denli ilişkilerin aynı zamanda ...

In order to improve the level of intelligence, availability, convenience, information and humanization of rural public transportation systems, they are more willing to use modern information and communicative technologies. In addition to management services, intelligent transportation systems can provide passengers, drivers and other institutions with other services such as trip planning, track...

This paper examines the sources of earnings disparities between rural migrants and local workers in urban China’s labor markets, with special attention to the role played by the household registration (hukou) status in occupational segregation. Using data from the population mini-census of China in 2005, we show that rural migrants’ earnings disadvantages are largely attributable to occupationa...

In order to improve the level of intelligence, availability, convenience, information and humanization of rural public transportation systems, they are more willing to use modern information and communicative technologies. In addition to management services, intelligent transportation systems can provide passengers, drivers and other institutions with other services such as trip planning, track...