BUSINESS SCHOOL PhD SCHOLARSHIP RESEARCH PROPOSAL DEGREE: Doctor of Philosophy CENTRE: Economic Policy PROPOSED TITLE: Improving Local Labour Market Performance in UK: The role of family and friendship support networks. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT The efficiency and effectiveness of the labour market can be gauged by the level of economic inactivity and unemployment in that economy. Worklessness is a term commonly used to describe the unemployed and the economically inactive
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Reproduced in this document is an example of a student’s PhD proposal which has since been developed successfully‚ and the student has now graduated from Hull. The work developed a lot from the original proposal – for example‚ it became more interpretive and qualitative in nature. You will work with your supervisor during the course of your PhD to develop your work appropriately. The proposal below therefore should be read in this context. We are making it available to give you an idea of the sorts
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RESEARCH PROPOSAL REVIEW OF GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM‚ ITS IMPLICATION ON INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHINA AND SINGAPORE. Submitted to: City University of Hong Kong‚ Department of Asian and International Studies. By: Huynh Phan Thang Prepared in consultation with Dr. Toby Carroll‚ AIS Department RESEARCH STATEMENT International aid has become an indispensable part of international relations; almost all countries operate
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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was established by the (Establishment) Act 2002 and (repealed and re-enacted by EFCC) Act 2004. It is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal. It is a designated Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in Nigeria with powers to coordinate various institutions involved in the fight against money laundering and enforcement of all laws dealing with economic and financial crimes (Otite
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A MODEL OF GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS IN AFRICA PROPOSAL FOR PHD IN ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE RESEARCH OBJECTIVES This research‚ which is motivated by the desire to understand the implications of the ongoing World Bank reforms‚ examines the role of accounting systems in governance improvements in Africa. The overall objective is to develop a model that will help explain the relationship between accounting systems and governance systems in Africa. The specific objectives of the study are to:
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PhD Dissertation Proposal “Everyone matters”: Why northern Non-Governmental Development Organisations engage with the socially excluded in their own communities. 15 June 2009 Introduction In 1999 Gaventa concluded‚ as a result of his study of the links and learning between Community Based Organisations (CBOs) in the North and South‚ that many northern-based CBOs had not engaged with issues of power and poverty in their own communities
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c/o Academic Office‚ E25-518 Dear HST Graduate Committee Chair‚ Daryush Mehta presented his PhD thesis proposal on November 25‚ 2008 in the RLE Haus Room (36-428) at MIT to the following committee: Chair: Co-Supervisor: Co-Supervisor: Reader: Joseph S. Perkell‚ PhD‚ MIT‚ whose areas of expertise are the sensorymotor control of speech production and voice/speech production and acoustics Robert E. Hillman‚ PhD‚ MGH‚ whose area of expertise is in the clinical evaluation of human voice production. Thomas
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PhD Opportunity in Public Health Ethics The Institute for Biomedical Ethics (IBMB) and the Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) at the University of Basel‚ Switzerland are pleased to launch a unique PhD opportunity in Public Health Ethics. For this collaborative effort‚ we seek two excellent and highly motivated doctoral students to embark upon a PhD project related to multi-center clinical trials in Africa. Emphasis will be placed upon ongoing and/or prospective clinical trials
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[Online] Available: http://www.readingtolearn.com.au/images/pdf/Science_technology_and_technical_literacies. pdf (March 15‚ 2012). Taverniers‚ M. (2002). Systemic-functional linguistics and the notion of grammatical metaphor: A theoretical study and a proposal for a semiotic-functional integrative model. Taverniers‚ M. (2003). Grammatical metaphor in SFL: A historiography of the introduction and http://users.ugent.be/~mtaverni/publications.html (July 20‚ 2012). Taverniers‚ M. (2006). Grammatical metaphor
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There are several benchmarks that are used to price oil. For oil produced in North America‚ it’s priced off against WTI benchmark (talk a bit about how this benchmark is determined). For oil that is produced in the North Sea and mostly for other parts of the World as well‚ Brent Global is used as a benchmark for pricing purposes. Historically the prices of WTI and Brent have always stayed really close to each other‚ the difference in them being attributed to the existence of transportation costs
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