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Recent PhD. Defences

 

Suzanne Naafs - 11 December 2012

Youth, Work and Lifestyles in an Indonesian Industrial Town

Professor dr Ben White

Promotor

Dr Linda Herrera, University of Illinois

Co-promotor

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Moushira Elgeziri - 27 September 2012

In Pursuit of Dignity: Education and Social Mobility in the Life Trajectories of Women Commercial School Graduates in Cairo

Promotor: Professor Marc Wuyts

Co-promotors: Amrita Chhachhi; Bridget O'Laughlin

Abstract

Moushira Elgeziri 

Mariana Sofia Cifuentes Montoya - 17 August 2012

Negotiating Social Policies in Kenya: Aid, Ethnicity and Resource Struggles

Promotor: Professor Jim Bjorkamn

Co-promotors: Professor Jos Mooij; Emeritus Professor Martin Doornbos

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Prem Kumar Vijayan - 11 May 2012

Making the Pitrubhumi: Masculine Hegemony and the Making of the Hindu Nation

Promotor: Professor Ben White

Abstract

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Christina Kayoza - 26 April 2012

Integrated Infrastructure for Sustainable Improvement of Movement and Safety in Urban Road Corridors. The Case of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Promotor: Professor Meine Pieter van Dijk

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Lucienne Maas - 12 April 2012

A Time to Enrol, A Time to Stop... Policies, Perceptions and Practices Influencing the Right to Basic Education in Yemen

Promotor: Professor Ben White

Co-promotor: Associate Professor Jos Mooij

Abstract

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Alexander Blandón López - 11 April 2012

Economic Restructuring and Value Chains

Promotor: Professor Bert Helmsing

Co-promotor: Dr Guus van Westen, Utrecht University

Abstract

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Donald Mmari - 19 March 2012

Institutional Innovations and Competitiveness of Smallholders in Tanzania

Promotors: Professor Marc Wuyts; Professor Peter Knorringa

Abstract

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Henry Aniagoa Kifordu - 22 December 2011

Nigeria's Political Executive Elite: Paradoxes and Continuities, 1960-2007

Promotors: Professor Wil Hout; Professor Mohamed Salih

Abstract

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Akimi Yessoufou - 12 December 2011

Local Actors in Top-Down Implementation of Curricular Reform in Benin's Primary Education System

Promotor: Professor Jim Bjorkman

Co-promotor: Dr Jan Kees van Donge

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Xiao Liang - 5 October 2011

The Economics of Sustainable Urban Water Management: The Case of Beijing

Promotor: Professor Meine Pieter van Dijk

Abstract

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 Public Defence- Ms Xiao Liang

Pedro Veiga Vaz da Silva Goulart - 16 September 2011

Schooling and Child Labour in Portugal

Promotors: Professor Arjun Bedi; Professor Ashwani Saith

Abstract

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Sampson Oduro-Kwarteng - 29 August 2011

Private Sector Involvement in Urban Solid Waste Collection. Performance, capacity and regulations in five cities in Ghana

Promotor: Professor Meine Pieter van Dijk

Abstract

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Antonio Pedro Jose Machohe - 28 June 2011

Limits to Decentralization in Mozambique: Leadership, Politics and Local Government Capacities for Service Delivery

Promotor: Professor Bert Helmsing

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Xiang Feng - 11 November 2011

Regional Tourism Cooperation. Factors Influencing the Performance of Regional Tourism Cooperation in China

Promotors: Professor Meine Pieter van Dijk; Professor Leo van den Berg

Abstract

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Bilisuma Bushie Dito - 22 December 2011

Women's Bargaining Power and Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural Ethiopia

Promotors: Professor Michael Grimm; Professor Irene van Staveren

Abstract

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Francisco Inacio Alar - 2 November 2010

Performance Management of the Police in the Context of Public Sector Reform in Mozambique

Promotor: Emeritus Professor Jim Bjorkman

Co-promotor: Dr Joop de Wit

Abstract

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Piyanit Onoparatvibool - 29 September 2010

Competitive Challenges and Cluster Responses. Orchids, Cars and Electronics in East and Southeast Asia

Promotor: Professor Bert Helmsing

Abstract

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Syed Aamer Abdullah - 11 February 2010

Political Economy of Conflict. The Social Contract and Conflict in Pakistan

Promotor: Professor Mansoob Murshed

 

Wambui Rose Wamuthenya - 8 April 2010

Economic Crisis and Women's Employment in Urban Kenya

Promotors: Professor Arjun Bedi; Professor Marc Wuyts

Abstract

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 Wambui Rose Wamuthenya

Le Tan Nghiem - 14 April 2010

Activity and Income Diversification: Trends, Determinants and Effects on Poverty Reduction. The Case of the Mekong River.

Promotors: Professor Arjun Bedi; Professor Max Spoor

Abstract

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Jerome Awortwe-Abban - 9 December 2009

Ghanaian Graduates in Enterprise

Peromotor: Professor Bert Helmsing

Co-promotor: Professor Meine Pieter van Dijk

Abstract

 

Pascale Hatcher - 6 November 2009

The Politics of Entrapment: The World Bank, The Integrated Development Model & Citizenship at a Crossroad

Promotor: Professor Richard Robison

Co-promotor: Dr Kees Biekart

 

Mallika Pinnawala - 13 March 2009

Gender Transformation and Female Migration' Sri Lankan domestic workers negotiate transnational household relations

Promotor: Professor Ashwani Saith

Co-promotor: Dr Amrita Chhachhi

Abstract

 

Sailaja Nandigama - 22 December 2009

Transformations in the Making: Actor-networks, Elite-control and Gender Dynamics in Community Forest Management Intervention in Adavipalli, Andhra Pradesh, India

Promotor: Professor Mohamed Salih

Co-promotor: Dr Marlène Buchy

Abstract

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Daniel Oshi - 12 March 2009

Rural women and the financing of health care in Nigeria

Promotor: Professor Ben White

Co-Promotor: Dr Jan Kees van Donge

Abstract

 

Lu Caizhen - 8 May 2009

Who is poor in China? Comparison of Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment in Rural Yunnan.

Promotor: Professor Ashwani Saith

Co-promotor: Dr Marlène Buchy

 

Leandro Serino - 2 November 2009

Productive Diversification in Natural Resource-Abundant Countries - Limitations, Policies and the Experience of Argentina in the 2000s

Promotor: Professor Mansoob Murshed

Co-promotor: Professor Rob Vos

Abstract

 

Degefe Duressa Obo - 23 July 2009

Microfinance in Ethiopia: Elixer or Poison?

Promotor: Professor Meine Pieter van Dijk

Co-promotor: Dr Henk Moll

 

Tausi Kida - 10 November 2009

The Systemic Interaction of Health Care Market and Urban Poverty in Tanzania

Promotor: Professor Marc Wuyts

Co-promotor: Professor Maureen Mackintosh

Abstract

 

Filmon Hadaro Hando - 17 November 2009

Vulnerable Widows and Drought Relief in Ethiopia: Gidicho Community, Southwest Ethiopia

Promotor: Professor Mohamed Salih

Co-promotor: Dr Thanh-Dam Truong

Abstract

 

Victor Selorme Gedzi - 19 October 2009

Principles and Practices of Dispute Resolution in Ghana - Ewe and Akan Procedures on Female's Inheritance and Property Rights

Promotor: Professor Gerrie ter Haar

Co-promotor: Dr Barbara Oomen

 

Juan Ponce Jarrin - 3 May 2008

Educational Policy and Performance: Evaluating the Impact of Targeted Education Programs in Ecuador

Promotor: Professor Rob Vos

Co-promotor: Professor Arjun Bedi

 

Georgina Gómez - 2 April 2008

Making Markets: The Institutional Rise and Decline of the Argentine Red de Trueque

Promotor: Professor Bert Helmsing

Co-promotor: Professor Irene van Staveren

Dawood Mamoon - 3 December 2008

Trade, Poverty, Inequality and Security

Promotor: Professor Mansoob Murshed

 

Fenta Mandefro Abate - 18 April 2007

Beyond the Public Realm, Local Governance Network and Service Development in Amhara and Tigray Regions, Ethiopia

Promotors: Professor Bert Helmsing; Professor Meine Pieter van Dijk

Abstract

 

Aldret Albert Musisi - 29 june 2007

Underinvestment in Public Infrastructure Capital and Private Sector Output and Productivity in Uganda . Implications for Economic Growth

Promotors: Professor Rob Vos; Professor Valpy Fitzgerald

 

 

Yu Kojima - 5 July 2007

Women in Trafficking-Migration Continuum: From the Perspective of Human Rights and Social Justice

Promotors: Professor Bastiaan de Gaay Fortman; Dr Thanh-Dam Truong

 

 

 

Shi Xiaoping - 11 july 2007

Away from the farm? The Impact of Off-farm Employment on Farm Production, Factor Market Development and Sustainable Land Use in Jiangxi Province, P.R. China.

Promotors: Professor Hans Opschoor; Professor Arie Kuyvenhoven

 

Veronica Bayangos - 16 November 2007

INFLATION TARGETING AND EXCHANGE RATE UNCERTAINTY.

Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Inflation Targeting in an Open Dynamic macro-Economy of the Philippines

Promotor: Professor Rob Vos 

Co-promotor: Dr Karel Jansen

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Nguyen Huu Dung - 19 December 2007

Economic and Environmental Consequences of Agrochemical Use for Intensive Rice Cultivation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Promotor: Professor Hans Opschoor

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