Browsing by Keywords "Developing countries"
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Demographics, treatment and outcomes of atrial fibrillation in a developing country: the population-based TuRkish Atrial Fibrillation (TRAF) cohort
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Aims: Although atrial fibrillation (AF) is increasingly common in developed countries, there is limited information regarding its demographics, co-morbidities, treatments and outcomes in the developing countries. We present ... -
Discrimination against teenagers in the mall environment: a case from Ankara, Turkey
(Libra Publishers, 2009-02)Teenagers spend much of their leisure time at shopping malls which is a result of factors such as parental constraint due to the incivility of the streets, financial dependence, and limited financial resources. Migros, a ... -
Does control of rheumatic disease raise the standard of living in developing countries?
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A Kuznets curve in environmental efficiency: an application on OECD countries
(Springer Netherlands, 2000)The role of the environment is an important issue in policy making and the accurate assessment of the environmental conditions is vital. In this paper, using nonparametric techniques, an environmental efficiency index is ... -
Limits to community participation in the tourism development process in developing countries
(Pergamon Press, 2000-12)This study deals with a normative concept of participatory development approach, which originates in the developed world. In particular, it analyses and explains the limitations to the participatory tourism development ... -
Moderating effects of climate and external support on transformational leadership and technological innovation: An investigation in creative ventures in Turkey
(2006)The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of transformational leadership on technological innovation at the organizational level. Specifically, it was proposed that transformational leadership would have ... -
Predicting international students' academic success... may not always be enough: assessing Turkey's Foreign Study Scholarship Program
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2007)In 1993, Turkey's Higher Education Council (YOK) launched a program to sponsor thousands of students for graduate study abroad, in the hopes of building up a base of highly qualified, foreign educated faculty for 24 newly ... -
Relationship between financial crisis and foreign direct investment in developing countries using semiparametric regression approach
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)This paper analyzes whether and to what extent the inflow of FDI is affected before and after the occurence of a financial crisis in developing countries. The paper uses a semiparametric Generalized Partial Linear Models ... -
The resource curse and child mortality, 1961–2011
(Elsevier Ltd, 2017)There is now an extensive literature on the adverse effect of petroleum wealth on the political, economic and social well-being of a country. In this study we examine whether the so-called resource curse extends to the ... -
Transformational leadership and organizational innovation: the roles of internal and external support for innovation
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2009)Leadership has been suggested to be an important factor affecting innovation. A number of studies have shown that transformational leadership positively influences organizational innovation. However, there is a lack of ... -
Urban development process of built environments in metropolitan areas in Turkey: case study of angora settlement, Ankara
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)The built environments of metropolitan areas are rapidly changing in response to urban development dynamics. The nature of the urban built environment continues to be influenced by the conflicting interests and expectations ... -
Wage differences by gender, wage and self employment in urban Turkey
(Statistical Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries, 2003)This paper explains wage differences by gender, wage and self employment in an urban setting in Turkey. Data employed is taken from the 1994 Household Income Survey of the State Institute of Statistics (SIS) of Turkey. The ... -
Well-being in Alternative Economies: the role of shared commitments in the context of a spatially-extended alternative food network
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2017)Alternative economies are built on shared commitments to improve subjects’ well-being. Traditional commercial markets, premised upon growth driven by separate actors pursuing personal material gain, lead to exploitation ...
