Is Effective Think Pair Share (TPS) Used for Slow Learner Students (SLS)? Case Studies in Economic Development

Africa’s economic development will result from conscious efforts directed towards diversification and increased productivity in its low-performing agricultural sector. Technology development, transfer and uptake, which are low for now, are indispensible necessities in this respect. The purpose of this chapter is to review the characteristics, importance, constraints and technology adoption process of African agriculture to identify factors that enhance or hinder technology uptake. This is with a view to isolating lessons for developers or packagers of new agricultural or other technologies for Africa, especially nanotechnology and microelectronics which are evolving and transformational. The attributes of technologies that have made desired impact in African agriculture included cheapness, simplicity, observability, visibility of results, usefulness, compatibility with existing technologies and farm- or farmer-specific socio-economic or socio-cultural conditions. Case studies of the welfare-enhancing impacts of adopted agricultural technologies were examined under use of fertilizers, improved varieties and biotechnology. Useful lessons for development and transfer of nanotechnology and micro-electronics to Africa were highlighted.

Download Full-text

Technology Adoption and Economic Development

Nanotechnology and Microelectronics ◽

10.4018/978-1-61692-006-7.ch018 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 298-313

Author(s):

Taiwo E. Mafimisebi

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Technology Adoption ◽

Case Studies ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

Technology Development ◽

Adoption Process ◽

Agricultural Technologies ◽

Improved Varieties ◽

Cultural Conditions ◽

African Agriculture

Africa’s economic development will result from conscious efforts directed towards diversification and increased productivity in its low-performing agricultural sector. Technology development, transfer and uptake, which are low for now, are indispensible necessities in this respect. The purpose of this chapter is to review the characteristics, importance, constraints and technology adoption process of African agriculture to identify factors that enhance or hinder technology uptake. This is with a view to isolating lessons for developers or packagers of new agricultural or other technologies for Africa, especially nanotechnology and microelectronics which are evolving and transformational. The attributes of technologies that have made desired impact in African agriculture included cheapness, simplicity, observability, visibility of results, usefulness, compatibility with existing technologies and farm- or farmer-specific socio-economic or socio-cultural conditions. Case studies of the welfare-enhancing impacts of adopted agricultural technologies were examined under use of fertilizers, improved varieties and biotechnology. Useful lessons for development and transfer of nanotechnology and micro-electronics to Africa were highlighted.

Download Full-text

Modeling of the Economic Development of a Region

Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies - Environmental Modeling for Sustainable Regional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-156-0.ch013 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 260-280

Author(s):

Renáta Myšková ◽

Ivana Linkeová

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Fuzzy Sets ◽

Case Studies ◽

Regional Economic Development ◽

Economic Risk ◽

Microsoft Excel ◽

Regional Economic ◽

Number Of Factors ◽

Strategic Factors ◽

Official Data

The economic development of a region depends on a number of factors which influence it mainly bases in a macro-economic aspect. Each region has its specific characteristics, thus area-surveyed indicators may not have sufficient predicative potential. In this chapter the authors design two new indicators (Index of Citizens’ Financial Provision and Risk of Regional Economic Development) which enable them to evaluate the financial provision of citizens and the economic risk of a region in more detail. Consequently the authors can, through the course of designing these indicators, determine the rate of their influence on a region or at least predict their development. In order to create and model these indicators the authors used tools from the Microsoft Excel program. The methodology described can be widely utilized, as partial indicators can be substituted and, therefore, it is possible to evaluate other strategic factors of the region under consideration. Indicator Risk of Regional Economic Development was designed with the help of fuzzy sets. The chapter includes two case studies, which are based on official data provided by the Czech Statistical Office. The purpose was to illustrate the construction of indicators, their predicative value and modeling potential.

Download Full-text

Introduction

Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198858249.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Agnes Cornell ◽

Jørgen Møller ◽

Svend-Erik Skaaning

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Case Studies ◽

Economic Crisis ◽

Nation Building ◽

Socio Economic Development ◽

Party Institutionalization ◽

And Performance ◽

The Many ◽

Western Democracies ◽

Civil Societies

Against the backdrop of the economic crisis that began in 2008 and the rise of populist parties, a new body of research has used interwar political developments to warn that even long-established Western democracies are fragile. We challenge this interwar analogy based on the fact that a relatively large number of interwar democracies were able to survive the recurrent crises of the 1920s and 1930s. The main aim of this book is to understand the striking resilience of these democracies, and how they differed from the many democracies that broke down in the same period. Previous theoretical accounts, which can be divided into structuralist, elitist, associational, and performance-based perspectives, do not adequately explain this variation. We advance an explanation that nests an associational perspective in a structuralist perspective. The model centres on democratic legacies and strong associational landscapes (i.e. vibrant civil societies and party institutionalization). These factors are rooted in a set of structural conditions associated with socio-economic development and state- and nation-building processes. Our empirical strategy consists of a combination of systematic comparisons of all interwar democratic spells and in-depth case-studies.

Download Full-text

Global Manufacturing and Local Linkage in Singapore

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a301603 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 30 (9) ◽

pp. 1603-1624 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

M Perry ◽

Tan Boon Hui

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Case Studies ◽

Multinational Corporation ◽

Postal Survey ◽

Information Flows ◽

Personal Interview ◽

New Approaches ◽

Manufacturing Activity ◽

Interview Survey

New approaches to the management of subcontracting relations are interpreted as indicating a shift from adversarial to cooperative linkages. This shift is thought to encourage greater use of external suppliers and to encourage localisation of buyers and suppliers. These propositions are examined through a case study of linkage development in Singapore, a major centre of multinational manufacturing activity. The case study draws on evidence from a sample of participants in a scheme promoted by Singapore's Economic Development Board known as the Local Industry Upgrading Programme (LIUP), which has aimed to promote linkage development. The paper reports two surveys of participants in LIUP: (1) a postal survey of buyers (mainly made up of foreign multinationals as well as a few Singapore organisations) and subcontractors; and (2) a personal interview survey with representatives of twenty-two buyer organisations. The analysis, partly presented through brief case studies of individual organisations, shows how variable strategies affecting subcontracting linkages are evolving. Increased information flows between firms are found to be well established but a low priority to linkage localisation is discovered. These findings are interpreted in terms of MNC (multinational corporation) strategies to retain flexibility in subcontractor selection and their increased capabilities to manage spatially dispersed supply linkages.

Download Full-text