ABSTRACT: We examine how socio-political conflict in Bolivia has affected its economic performance since the 1970s. Such conflict includes strikes, demonstrations, road blockades, and conventional rent-seeking. Since conflict has costs, it diverts resources away from production, tends to reduce

presented here while characteristics of British educational system are covering the whole tenure of British educational policies in Indo-Pak Subcontinent from 1813 to 1947. The socio-political consequences of this system after the formation of Pakistan are also discussed here.

fragmentation of population. On the other hand, the endogenous determinants of democracy refer to the characteristics of political context, such as electoral rules, forms of government, stability and persistence of democratic institutions, degree of political election competition and degree of vote

institutions (i.e. shifting power to the EU institutions and international authorities). At this point, it is very crucial to emphasize the fact that the Western Balkans as a whole region has currently an image that includes characteristics of both the Soviet socialism and the European democracy. The EU

We argue that the global digital divide, as measured by cross-national differences in Internet use, is the result of the economic, regulatory and sociopolitical characteristics of countries and their evolution over time. We predict Internet use to increase with world-system status, privatization

. The process of the disease production and dispersion is discussed, emphasizing the human migration and correlated aspects, in the context of globalization. Positive and negative consequences concern the future of this trypanosomiasis, mainly in terms of the ecologic and sociopolitical characteristics

: immigrant pre-literate adolescents. It describes the effects of a literacy intervention on the dropout rate in a mid-urban school district in Houston, Texas, examining the dropout issue from a sociopolitical perspective. Data from 147 experimental and 50 control students are analyzed to answer questions

The effect of environmental characteristics and uncertainty on strategic planning was investigated in this study. Ten firms (5 in the Banking Industry, and 5 in the Manufacturing Industry) operating in the Lagos State of Nigeria were chosen for this study. Questionnaire administered on selected

characteristics clearly show the predominance of 3.3 % compound annual growth under a number of different socio-political climates. It is proposed that this represents a lower limit to journal growth rates and that this growth is the outcome of a self-organizing information system that reflects on the growth

drew on information from a variety of publicly-available sources and principally on data presented in published papers in peer-reviewed journals. For classifying HRH constraints an analytical framework was used that considers constraints at five levels: individual characteristics, the health service