Urban Unemployment in Africa

1972 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Cruise O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Great Risk ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Urban Unemployment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

The Institute of Development Studies organised an international conference on this topic at the University of Sussex, Brighton, from 12 to 16 September 1971. A background paper prepared by the convenors, Richard Jolly and Rita Cruise O'Brien, outlined the purpose as follows:Urban unemployment in Africa is a theme on which much has been written in recent years but which is still ‘in fashion’ and of considerable importance to a broad range of scholars and policy makers…there is a great risk of dissipating one's efforts over that whole field. In planning this conference, we have tried therefore to be guided by three dominant principles: (a) to restrict the topics for discussion so as to focus on what seem to us important issues, on which further understanding could be generated by a bout of concentrated thought, analysis of data and discussion; (b) to invite a limited number of people engaged in current research or involved on the spot with investigation or policy-making; (c) to request authors of papers to start at what might be called the current conventional wisdom among specialists and to build their analysis from there… It will be assumed that persons attending the conference are generally in touch with recent literature on the subject.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CULTURAL CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES” / SOCIALINIŲ POKYČIŲ IR APLINKOS IŠŠŪKIŲ FENOMENOLOGINĖS PERSPEKTYVOS

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-90
Author(s):  
Rimantė Kvašinskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
New Tradition ◽  
Second International

On September 22–24, in 2011, the second international phenomenological conference took place in Vilnius, Lithuania. It was organized together with Antioch University of the USA and it was hosted in Vilnius Gediminas Technical University's Faculty of Architecture. Urbanists, philosophers, educators and other academic scholars had a chance to deepen their knowledge and present the results of their researches on the subject of “Phenomenological Perspectives on Cultural Change and Environmental Challenges”. More than 10 speakers from various countries had presented their speeches and afterwards actively indulged in group discussions on the most problematic issues. Due to a huge success that the event has proven to be, it is expected to be just a beginning of a new tradition to hold such conferences in the university regularly. Santrauka Antroji tarptautinė fenomenologų konferencija Lietuvoje įvyko 2011 m. rugsėjo 22–24 d. Ši konferencija, kitaip nei 2009 m. įvykusi jos pirmtakė, buvo organizuota kartu su JAV Antiocho universitetu. Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitete, Architektūros rūmuose urbanistai ir architektai turėjo galimybę sužinoti daug naujo ir patys pateikti savo tyrimų rezultatus tema ,,Socialinių pokyčių ir aplinkos iššūkių fenomenologinės perspektyvos“. Daugiau nei 10 pranešėjų iš viso pasaulio parengė kalbas ir po jų aktyviai įsitraukė į diskusijas, kuriose buvo gvildenami problematiškiausi klausimai. Tikėtina, kad tokios konferencijos ateityje taip pat bus organzijuojamos ir pamažu virs pasididžiavimo verta tradicija.

Second International Conference on Ethico-Economics

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 567-569
Author(s):  
Masudul A. Choudhury
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Critical Length ◽  
Great Success ◽  
University Professors ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Cape Breton ◽  
Knowledge Formation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Second International

The Second International Conference on Ethico-Economics was organizedby the Centre of Humanomics at the UniverSity College of Cape Breton,Sydney, NS, Canada, on October 11-12, 1991. It turned out to be a great success,as the fourteen university professors and research scholars from America,Canada, and overseas were active participants in the sessions. There werefive sessions and three invited luncheon and dinner sessions. The conferenceproved to be of a rigorously analytical nature, as its purpose was to inquireinto the ethical foundations of the theory and policy of economic reasoningand socioeconomic development.The objective of the conference was to intensify the Scientific ResearchProgram (SRP) launched by a group of university professors and researchscholars, an undertaking which seeks to discover the analytical and appliedroots and possibilities of treating ethics endogenously in socioeconomicsystems. The latitude is extended to comprehend the socioscientific systemas well. The First International Conference on Ethico-Econornics, held atSydney, NS, Canada, in 1989, inquired into the subject of “The EpistemologicalFoundations of Social Theory.”Among the papers presented and extensively discussed in critical length -an expressed style of this SRP group to evolve a scientific theory and applicationof ethics as endogenous elements of the socioeconomic and socioscientificorders-were two papers on Islamic economics. Mohammad Ansari, ofAthabasca University, Athabasca, AL, Canada, dealt with the question ofthe Islamic concept of rationality being different from the neoclassical conceptof rationality. Salah el-Sheikh of St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish,NS, Canada, discussed the process of knowledge formation in the Islamicapproach to the study of economics ...

Political Action, Error and Failure: The Epistemological Limits of Complexity

2011 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Little
Keyword(s):  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Complex Terrain ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Risk Averse ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Epistemological Obstacles

The trend in government and public policy towards evidence-based policy making has recently been the subject of criticism from authors such as Ian Sanderson who argue that the insights of complexity theory undermine the claims of evidence that these forms of policy design advocate. While taking on board the primary claim of this critique, this article examines the contribution of complexity theory in more detail to suggest that the epistemological obstacles that complexity science identifies also challenge the kind of pragmatic, deliberative model that Sanderson prefers. Instead, it examines the work of Michael Freeden on failure and Michel Foucault on error to demonstrate the ways in which approaches that are less wedded to epistemological certainty can enable policy makers to think more creatively about the complex terrain they must navigate and develop more innovative and less risk-averse forms of political action.

Enemies, allies or citizens? The subject positions of men in the making of birth leave for fathers in Israel

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-339
Author(s):  
Nadav Perez-Vaisvidovsky
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
The Subject

Gender equality-oriented policy-making adopts a complex attitude toward the role of fathers. While some branches of the legislative branches see the potential in engaging fathers in the household for promoting gender equality, others see the risk in men appropriating women’s few sources of power. In this article, the subject positions given to men in the legislative process of the birth leave for fathers programme in Israel are examined. I show how, in accordance with this division, fathers are given two subject positions ‐ that of the enemy and that of the ally. However, policy-makers fail to put fathers in the role of citizens, seeing them as entitled to rights based on their own status. This situation mirrors the citizenship of Israeli women, who are, in turn, limited to their motherhood. While the claim that fathers are not seen as citizens, and that their rights are not protected enough, might sound absurd, I claim that such a position is required in order to promote a radical change in the division of labour within the household.

The Habit of Deference: The Imperial Factor and the “University Question“ in Upper Canada

1977 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred D. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Upper Canada ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Common Basis ◽  
European Settlement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

“Imperialism,” like “empire,” is a word with many connotations; briefly, it describes an attitude of mind to the possession and use of dependent territories by the metropolitan power and the effect of colonization on the society and polity of the colonized. Despite attempts to discover a common basis to imperialist thinking at all times in history, most historians perceive differences, both in degree and kind, between different empires and at various times in the history of a single empire. They approach their task either with a definition of “imperialism” or a theory about the phenomenon it is meant to describe, and are concerned primarily with the effects of policies rather than how and why they were made; or they ask why something happened when it did, in the way it did, and are concerned primarily with the making of policy and the motives of the policy-makers.Following the second approach, this paper explores one of the most crucial and continuous questions that imperial administrators had to resolve: the problem of self-government in colonies of European settlement, leading to the ultimate transfer of power; and by looking at the “University Question” in Upper Canada during the half-century after 1791, it examines how the perpetual adjustment that was “policy-making” actually happened. More specifically, in answering the question, “Who ran the British Empire?”, it is concerned not so much with the effects of Britain's control over subject peoples as with the method by which it exercised that control.

Decisions and Politics

The Last Card ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 260-276
Author(s):  
Robert Jervis
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Accurate Picture ◽  
The Us ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Military

This chapter illustrates how the perceived lessons of Vietnam were in the back of policy makers' minds as they considered the US predicament in Iraq, and notes that this episode demonstrates the power of bureaucracies in shaping information flows and policy options, as well as—paradoxically—of presidents in using their power and persuasion to bring reluctant bureaucracies along. The participants could not avoid remembering the conventional wisdom that the American defeat in Vietnam emboldened adversaries, sowed disunity at home, and crippled the military for years to come. Whether this is an accurate picture can be debated, but not the pervasiveness and power of this narrative within Bush's policy-making team. While there certainly were grounds for believing that for the US to withdraw without having established at least a modicum of order would have had unfortunate consequences for the region, America's reputation, and its self-image, Vietnam may have made it harder to make an unbiased estimate of the likely magnitude of these effects. Vietnam also influenced the way the military fought: the reaction to the war was that it was the kind of conflict the US should never fight again.

Materials for Electron Beam Information Storage

1969 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 152-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Speliotis
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Electron Beam ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Electron Beams ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Magnetic Field

The interaction of electron beams with a large variety of materials for information storage has been the subject of numerous proposals and studies in the recent literature. The materials range from photographic to thermoplastic and magnetic, and the interactions with the electron beam for writing and reading the information utilize the energy, or the current, or even the magnetic field associated with the electron beam.

MANAGEMENT OF THE SUCCESS OF STUDENT’S LEARNING BASED ON THE MARKOV MODEL

2018 ◽  
pp. 4-11
Author(s):  
M. V. Noskov ◽  
M. V. Somova ◽  
I. M. Fedotova
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Markov Process ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Automated Information System ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Independent Work ◽  
Near Future

The article proposes a model for forecasting the success of student’s learning. The model is a Markov process with continuous time, such as the process of “death and reproduction”. As the parameters of the process, the intensities of the processes of obtaining and assimilating information are offered, and the intensity of the process of assimilating information takes into account the attitude of the student to the subject being studied. As a result of applying the model, it is possible for each student to determine the probability of a given formation of ownership of the material being studied in the near future. Thus, in the presence of an automated information system of the university, the implementation of the model is an element of the decision support system by all participants in the educational process. The examples given in the article are the results of an experiment conducted at the Institute of Space and Information Technologies of Siberian Federal University under conditions of blended learning, that is, under conditions when classroom work is accompanied by independent work with electronic resources.

Positive Reintegration as a Way of Small and Medium-Sized Business Development

2012 ◽  
pp. 83-88
Author(s):  
A. Zolotov ◽  
M. Mukhanov
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Alternative Possibility ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Compensation Mechanisms ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Monitoring And Enforcement ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Modernization Process

А new approach to policy-making in the field of economic reforms in modernizing countries (on the sample of SME promotion) is the subject of this article. Based on summarizing the ten-year experience of de-bureaucratization policy implementation to reduce the administrative pressure on SME, the conclusion of its insufficient efficiency and sustainability is made. The alternative possibility is the positive reintegration approach, which provides multiparty policy-making process, special compensation mechanisms for the losing sides, monitoring and enforcement operations. In conclusion matching between positive reintegration principles and socio-cultural factors inherent in modernization process is provided.

Managing Service Quality, Food Quality, Price Fairness and Customer Retention: A Holistic Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Ammar Ahmed ◽  
Rafat Naseer ◽  
Muhammad Asadullah ◽  
Hadia Khan
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Food Quality ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Customer Retention ◽  
Price Fairness ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Restaurant Management ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Propositions ◽  
The Impact

In this competitive environment, organizations strive to satisfy their customer by providing best quality service at affordable and fair prices with a view to enhance their revenues. To achieve the objective of revenue maximization, organizations strive to identify the factors that help them in retaining their customers. Drawing from the signalling theory of marketing, the current study proposes a novel conceptual model representing the impact of service quality with food quality and price fairness on customer retention in restaurant sector of Pakistan. The paper underlines an important arena of knowledge for academicians as well as organizational scientists on the subject. On the basis of literature available on the variables understudy, the present study forwards eight research propositions worthy of urgent scholarly attention. The conceptualized model of the present article can also be viewed significant in unleashing further avenues for the restaurant management entities, policy makers and future researchers in the domain of managing in the service sector businesses.

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