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Advancing Sustainable Development Goals through Enhanced Literacy in Nuclear Science and Technology: Emphasizing Hands-On Experiences Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Phannee Saengkaew, Supitcha Chanyotha, Phongphaeth Pengvanich, Benjawan Srijaroen, Phiphat Phruksarojanakun, Chainarong Cherdchu, Rieko Takaki, Takeshi Iimoto
In alignment with the United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDG s), nuclear science and technology (NST) significantly contributes to nine out of seventeen SDG s. As an integral component of nuclear human resource development (HRD), it is imperative to introduce young students to NST through effective STEAM or STEM methodologies. However, Thailand’s progress in NST literacy and public awareness
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The Bright Future of Liberal Democracy Explained through Revisited Modernization Theory Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Denis Danilenko
Many think that liberal democracy is currently under attack. This view leads to considering modernization theory as a fallacy because economic development indicators show that authoritarian economies continue to grow. This study challenges this idea and attempts to update modernization theory. We argue that not mere economic development is a requirement of liberal democracy, as initially advanced,
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The Effects of the Developments in Artificial Intelligence and Open-Access Software on the Visions of Academicians Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Meri Taksi Deveciyan, Sinan Bataklar
This research aims to examine the effects of developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and open-access software on the visions of academicians. The research was conducted using the phenomenology pattern, one of the qualitative research methods, and semi-structured in-depth interviews were preferred during the data collection process. Descriptive and coding-based qualitative content analysis methods
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Manifestation of the Socio-Psychological Impact of COVID-19 in Selected Contexts around the Globe Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 A. Ketwa, Simon Murote Kang’ethe
According to the World Health Organization (2020), the COVID-19 pandemic has had significant psychological and social effects on the population. Research has highlighted the impact on the psychological well-being of the most exposed groups, including children, college students, and health workers who are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, and other symptoms
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Navigating the Future of Education: Harnessing Data Mining to Illuminate Pathways to Success Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Becharef Kada, Belhamiti Amel, Bouziani Abderrezzaq, Ammour El Batoul
This study aims to enhance educational assessment tools in Algerian middle schools by utilizing Educational Data Mining (EDM) techniques to predict student performance in the Middle School Certificate Examination. Recognizing a gap in the Algerian education system’s use of abundant student data for improving learning outcomes and decision-making, this research applies advanced data analytics to overcome
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Social Media and Emergence of Neo-Traditional Protests: Exploring Communicative Ecology of Oromo Protests in Ethiopia Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Urgessa Deressa Gutu, Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta
Entanglements of rituals and networks of the past with the present have not been sufficiently appreciated by studies of contemporary protest movements; instead, most emphasis the contrast between protest movements mobilized online and traditional offline platforms. This article adopts the holistic lens of communicative ecology to analyze the entanglements between the novel (online) and traditional
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Analysis of Digitalization and Sustainable Development in Africa Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Arbia Hlali, Nesrine Gafsi
Many countries in the world competed to integrate technology in all sectors, and some of them were able to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in this area. However, African countries face several challenges in the field of digitalization. This article aims to study the results of these difficulties that appeared clearly during the COVID-19 crisis. The study used a SWOT analysis to highlight
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Does Behavioral Decision Theory Influence the Adoption of Mobile Banking among Customers? Experience from Tanzania Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Yuslida John
Though the benefits of mobile adoption in banking institutions are extensively recognized, there is a low pace of its adoption among customers. The establishment of behavioral factors that can motivate banking customers to adopt mobile banking has been a concern. Provided that no single framework can fit all sizes, this study builds on past research to invest in behavioral factors among customers toward
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Exploring Oman’s International Tourism Determinants in a Gravity Modelling Framework Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Azmat Gani, Sami Al-Kharusi
This research investigates Oman’s international tourism predictors within a coherent gravity modelling framework. International visitor arrival data for 2007 to 2015 involving Oman’s forty-eight main visitor origin countries are incorporated in the balanced panel estimation empirical phase that tests several gravity model specifications. The estimation procedure includes standard gravity variables
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Exploring the Role of Microinsurance in Financial Inclusion: a Tanzanian Case Study Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Deogratius Joseph Mhella
The study addresses a significant gap in the literature by investigating the relationship between microinsurance and financial inclusion in Tanzania, mainly focusing on the role of digital financial services. Although some literature and knowledge exist that explain microinsurance and financial inclusion, what remains unexplained in terms of contribution to knowledge is the specific nuances or mechanisms
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Unpacking Pertinent States of Stigma and Stigmatization Associated with COVID-19 in Eclectic Contexts: a Review of the Literature Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Simon Murote Kang’ethe
Incontrovertibly, stigma and its concomitant stigmatization continue to derail the efficacy of the campaign to subdue stigma that negatively affects people’s health-seeking behavior. This is because they are engulfed with fear, despondency, shame, and guilt. The current article, through a literature review methodology, discusses pertinent states of stigma and stigmatization associated with COVID-19
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Vulnerable Group Theory of Financial Inclusion Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Peterson K. Ozili
In this article, I propose the vulnerable group theory of financial inclusion. The theory begins with the premise that vulnerable people are often left behind in society, they suffer the most from economic hardship and crises, and they are at risk of being excluded from the formal financial sector. The theory therefore proposes that financial inclusion efforts should be targeted at all vulnerable people
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Comparative Analysis of Financial Inclusion in Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the World Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Kingsley I. Obiora, Peterson K. Ozili
Using six widely accepted indicators, this study compares the progress made in financial inclusion in Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the rest of the World, with a view to deducing lessons that each entity can improve upon. We find that Nigeria outperformed Sub-Saharan Africa in three indicators of financial inclusion while Sub-Saharan Africa did better than Nigeria in one metric. Nigeria and Sub-Saharan
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Cybersecurity Challenges in Indonesia: Threat and Responses Analysis Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Fadhila Inas Pratiwi, Citra Hennida, Sartika Soesilowati, Natavia Berliantin, Devi Yuni Ekasari, Citra Sari Dewi, Angelique Angie Intan
The purpose of this research is to know the cyberthreat faced by Indonesian society and understand how the government responds towards this threat. This study employs two types of data. The first came from the literature for building the theoretical linkage, and the second came from an online survey of 328 respondents about cyberthreats that they experience, as well as the respondents’ perception regarding
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Older People and Connectivity: How Has the Pandemic Changed the Older Population’s Use of ICT s and Social Networks? Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 María Mairal-Llebot, Cecilia Latorre-Cosculluela, Marta Liesa-Orús, Sergio Cored-Bandrés
The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered numerous changes in our lives. Digital tools have made it possible to continue with the development of tasks or activities of multiple kinds. This fact has not bypassed the elderly who often find themselves in a situation of inequality caused by the generational digital divide. Using a mixed methodology combining quantitative and qualitative techniques
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The Social and Biomedical Hurdles Associated with COVID-19: Eclectic Contexts Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Ndungi wa Mungai, Simon Murote Kang’ethe
The advent of COVID-19 continues to present social and biomedical challenges that this article endeavors to explore through a systematic critical review of the literature. The article has also benefited from the researchers’ intuition and experiences they have acquired from investigating trends of SARS-CoV-2 virus dynamics. It has also benefited from engaging in informal conversations with researchers
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Do Electronic Services Improve Students’ Satisfaction among Public Sector Organizations? The Case of Tanzanian Higher Learning Institutions Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Yuslida John
This study examines the influence of e-services on students’ satisfaction in higher learning institutions. Although many studies have investigated e-services in education systems, many of them do not associate satisfactory e-services application in administrative activities in ensuring students’ satisfaction. The surveyed data collected from 257 university students was analyzed by the structural equation
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The Intersection of Identities: Access to Primary Education in Kamrup District of Assam Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Sikha Das, Sambit Mallick
Access to primary education is often interpreted as access to school education, resources inside and outside the school, the way different children are treated by teachers and peers, and even access to distinct types of schools. However, different resources are not accessible to all members of a particular social system based on their intersectional identities. The intersection of identities may be
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Neo-Luddism in the Shadow of Luddism Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Yusuf Erdem Tunç, Aslan Tolga Öcal
Technology is adopted regardless of its results; however, technology does not always result in absolute progress. The Luddites, the first movement to resist the effects of technology, made a series of uprisings in the nineteenth century, and even today they represent anxiety against technology. Neo-Luddism, as the successor of Luddism, peacefully opposes technology’s adverse effects with a distinct
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Partisans and Participants: Democracy, New Media, and Nigerian Diaspora in New Zealand Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Muhammed Musa, Osman Antwi-Boateng
This article argues that in the era of neo-liberal globalization there has been intensification in the movement of goods, people, and capital across national boundaries. Our ethnographic studies of Nigerian immigrants in New Zealand point to the dispersal of Africans with very active partisan roles in their homeland democratic developments. This African transnationalism, as will be seen in the case
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The Politicization and Militarization of Migration: The Eco-Socio-Historical Origins of Capitalist Terminal Crisis Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Florence Molk
The politicization and militarization of migration, currently instituted to prevent the growing movement of people from the periphery, are symptomatic of the unprecedented terminal crisis of historical capitalism. Oblivious to the fact of entering the realm of its dissolution for some time, the capitalist system follows a familiar playbook and calls for, among other things, increased control and militarization
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Abolishing the War on Climate: Pathways for Collective Ecological Security Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Dafne Yeltekin, Zainab Koli, Lizander Oros
The climate crisis has been increasingly approached by powerful global actors as both a national and international security threat, rather than a matter of ecological security. This article categorizes false solutions behind the climate security approach and presents three intersecting ways forward for climate justice. By highlighting the work of social movements, this article aims to center truly
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Beleaguered City, Beleaguered Planet Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Leslie Sklair
This article sets out to analyze the connections between three different but related phenomena (capitalist globalization, the Anthropocene, and the coronavirus epidemic) through the lens of iconic buildings and spaces and the cities in which they are mostly found. I argue that the transnational capitalist class uses cities as competitors in a global system of lucrative investment opportunities. Capitalist
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The Dangers of Ecofascism Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Jerry Harris
Neoliberalism and evangelical theocrats want to create an authoritarian capitalism that maintains a political, social, and environmental dictatorship. Green capitalism offers only limited change unable to solve the environmental crisis. Building alternative hegemony around a Green New Deal will be the best oppositional force to ecofascism.
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Entangled Futures: Big Oil, Political Will, and the Global Environmental Movement Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Eve Darian-Smith
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identified a lack of “political will” by national leaders as the main obstacle to mitigating the climate emergency in its 2022 report. However, the report makes no mention that contributing to this political deficiency has been rising antidemocracy over the past two decades, furthered by the support of the powerful fossil fuel industry. This article
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Growing Divides between Establishment and Climate Justice Proponents: A View from the Extremes of South Africa Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Patrick Bond
The failure of elites negotiating global public goods – e.g., ending COVID-19 “vaccine apartheid,” forging geopolitical stability, reducing inequality, regulating international financial flows, and avoiding world recession – is nowhere more dangerous than the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s refusal to cut greenhouse gas emissions deeply and fairly. “Climate Justice” principles
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Integrating Degrowth and World-Systems Theory: Toward a Research Agenda Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Mariko Lin Frame
This short conceptual article seeks to integrate world-systems theory and degrowth. It suggests that an ecological rendering of world-systems theory can clarify some of the most important quandaries of the degrowth movement in regards to global justice, decolonialism, the excessive material throughput of the Global North, and globalization. The article reframes these concerns from a world-systems framework
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Neglecting the Marginalized: Corporate Valuation Discourses in Environmental Struggles Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Marcel Llavero-Pasquina
The unequal distribution of environmental goods and pollution burdens is determined by valuation decisions dependent on the values present in the public sphere. Accordingly, corporations and movements of resistance adopt strategies to influence public value systems to prioritize their interests. However, pre-existing asymmetric relationships of power grant corporations a dominant position over the
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Post-Disaster Scenarios: Towards Environmental Alternatives of the Global South Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Marek Hrubec
While it is also relevant to address the Earth crisis using reformist approaches, this article analyzes a worse-case scenario. It deals with a post-disaster scenario that looks for ways out of a deeper environmental crisis or disaster. But this does not mean a scenario of a total global apocalypse. It addresses the topic in four steps: first, by stressing an importance of post-disaster scenarios between
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Racial Capitalism and the Ecological Crises of the Anthropocene Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Carmen G. Gonzalez
The concept of racial capitalism has been embraced by scholars and activists as a means of exploring the common roots of contemporary social and ecological crises. These include unprecedented environmental degradation, extreme economic inequality, the resurgence of authoritarian ethno-nationalism, increasingly militarized and racialized policing and border control, and the expulsion to the margins
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Radical Ecological Economics: Decolonizing Our Work Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 David Barkin
Who are the peasants/Indigenous people and what is their role in the history and future of Mexico? Questioning the dominant version of the socio-political dynamics, I start with corn, a grain created in Mesoamerica, to develop one of most admired agroecological systems in the world. It contributes to good nutrition and health, (re)shaping social structures and the territory itself. Today’s communities
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The Socio-ecological Question, the Global Environmental Justice Movement and Anti-systemic Environmentalism Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Zehra Taşdemir Yaşın
This article makes two central arguments: i) we can understand the current phase of anti-systemic movements predominantly through the globally expanding forms of resistance centered on environment, food, climate, soil, water, and so on as a collective socio-ecological critique and confrontation of the global capitalist relations of production; and ii) we can conceptually specify the global environmental
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Rejecting Green Colonial Solutions: Towards Decolonial Solidarity with Mother Earth’s Revolt Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Marlene Brito-Millán, Leonardo Figueroa Helland, Janin Guzman Morales, Emma Harrison, Jessica Ng, Leslie Quintanilla, Amrah Salomón J, bt werner
We reframe climate crises as Mother Earth’s fevers and revolts against an anthropocentric, patriarchal, and racial colonial order of domination and extraction by undertaking a decolonial feminist, anti-capitalist complexity science, and Indigenous re-examination of how the scientific enterprise engages with climate politics. As the patriarchal state-centric technocracy and imperial mode of living that
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Dilemmas Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Zimbabwe Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Shingirai P. Mbulayi, Abigail Makuyana, B. Zindi, Simon M. Kang’ethe
Public hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccines stands out as an obstinate barrier to Zimbabwe’s ability to stamp out the ongoing pandemic and steer the country back to socioeconomic normalcy and stability. This qualitative study unpacked the hesitancy factors associated with the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in Zimbabwe. The study used an exploratory research design and collected its data from social media
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The Effectiveness of the “Top-Down, Bottom-Up” Approach for Understanding the Implementation of Regional Autonomy in Batu City Tourism Development Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Purbayakti Kusum Wijayanto, Luqman Hakim, Soesilo Zauhar, Abdullah Said
Community involvement in determining the direction of autonomous region development is still rare. Regional autonomy, conceptualized as the local government’s freedom to take care of domestic affairs, is the best way to implement a decentralized governmental approach. This research aims to determine the effectiveness of implementing regional autonomy in the development of Batu City tourism using a
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Financial Inclusion Expectation Gap Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Peterson K. Ozili
The objective of this article is to define the financial inclusion expectation gap, offer some insight into the nature and the causes of it, and suggest ways to reduce the gap. The discussion in the article provides helpful insights into this problem towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It is hoped that such an attempt can provide insights to understand the expectation
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Users’ Experiences of a Web-Based Suicide Prevention Program for College Students: a Mixed Methods Approach Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Freyana Shinde, Rekha Wagani, Kalyan Sasidhar
The current pandemic has remarkably increased the dependence on digital interfaces for mental health. This dependency calls for a strong need to check the efficacy of such digital platforms under various contexts. An evaluation study was conducted with participants in an online web-based suicide prevention intervention program named Happetite. The program was found to be not only accessible, but also
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Fault Lines in Financial Inclusion Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Peterson K. Ozili
Financial inclusion has been a global development policy priority over the last two decades. Financial inclusion involves providing access to basic financial services and the use of basic financial services to improve the welfare of individuals, households, and businesses. This article identifies the fault lines or vulnerabilities in the way financial inclusion is achieved. These fault lines or vulnerabilities
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Improved Supply Chain Crisis Response: A Study of Modular Design Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Ryan L. Skiver
In 2020 COVID-19 caused global disruptions in the supply chain that are still showing ripple effects in mid-2022. Pandemics are not the only form of crisis that causes supply chain disruptions. With increasing instances of natural disasters, organizational misconduct, economic instability, and political unrest, crisis management has become a growing issue within businesses and the supply chain field
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M-Wallet Adoption in Emerging Markets: A Combination of Technological, Behavioral and Financial Aspects in a Rational Choice Model Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Long Hoang Le, Giang Huong Duong, Sang Minh Nguyen
The adoption of mobile wallets can help to advance financial inclusion and human development in emerging countries. Current literature on mobile wallet (m-wallet) adoption focuses on technological and behavioral aspects, but neglects the financial aspect, which highly influences the decision-making of low-income people. This study identified the impacts of all three aspects on m-wallet adoption behavior
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Non-Inclusive Trade Unionism in the Tea Estates in Assam Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Mridusmita Duara, Sambit Mallick
The state of Assam alone produces nearly 53 percent of the total tea production in India. Around one million workers are engaged in the tea industry in India. Tea – as a commercial product first cultivated and expanded by the British – is an outcome of the toil and struggle of the Adivasi workers or indigenous people of central and east India who were made to migrate to Assam under extremely brutal
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Anxiety Management among Non-Clinical Society towards COVID-19 Pandemic in the Iranian Context Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Vadood Javan Amani, Hamid Akbari
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major effect on our lives. Many of us are facing challenges that can be stressful and overwhelming and cause strong emotions in adults and children. The purpose of this study was to measure the level of anxiety of non-clinical individuals in the Iranian community towards COVID-19 in Tehran. The present study is a descriptive correlational method with 308 individuals
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Handloom and Powerloom Industries in Odisha: A Historical Analysis Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Jnana Ranjan Prusty, Sambit Mallick
The handloom industry in India is an ancient cottage industry with a decentralized setup that provides jobs to about 35 million people. Handloom established its reputation in the global market long before the industrial revolution. Today, India’s handloom and spinning wheel produces the largest variation of designs. It continued to flourish despite the oppression of the British Government. In India
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Legal Origins, Governance and Bank Lending Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Azmat Gani, Almukhtar Al-Abri, Sami Salim Al Kharusi, Alya Al Foori
This article investigates if legal origins and governance impact lending by banks in a large sample of low- and middle-income countries for 2004 to 2017. The results revealed that countries with British legal origin, the strength of the legal systems, the rule of law, and regulatory quality are positively and statistically significantly correlated with the credit provided by the banks, among other
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Technology Transfer and Everyday Life among Smallholder Farmers: Notes on the Small Inconveniences that Slow the Transition to Industrial Agriculture in Ethiopia Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Selam Esayas Negatu, Elizabeth Holzer, Ezana Amdework Atsbeha, Kristen Kirksey
Global technology transfers reshape agriculture with profound influences on everyday life. Substantial research has documented broader constraints that influence technology transfer among farmers, yet existing theories give us a narrow view into how wider dynamics manifest in everyday life. Using tractor farming in Ethiopia as a case study with ethnographic and historical data, we contribute an account
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Unpacking South African Institutions of Higher Learning Efforts and Hurdles to Respond to COVID-19: Social Service Professionals’ Lenses Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Simon Murote Kang’ethe
Incontrovertibly, COVID-19 has overwhelmed institutions of learning in a big way with various institutions in South Africa endeavoring to surmount the challenges in different ways. This article has reviewed various sources of secondary literature from mainly journals. Findings established that institutions of higher learning need to strengthen their institutional modus operandi of communicating coronavirus
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Coffee in the Global Economy Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 John Redden
This article describes the origin of coffee, and how it became a globalized commodity leading into the current global landscape of coffee exchange. Significant contours of coffee production taking place in the various geographies are examined. Then notable organizations that influence global coffee markets are referenced. Finally, I state a few suggestions for progressive action with respect to global
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Encampment of Refugees in Kenya and the Failure of Economic Integration Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 John Bosco Ngendakurio
This article demonstrates how Kenya’s refugee encampment practice undermines refugees’ potential and fails local, regional, and global economy. It limits refugees’ integration and access to opportunities outside the refugee camps, rendering the benefits of globalization irrelevant. This article specifically looks at the impacts of the refugee encampment on participation, health, wellbeing, skills,
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Farmers against Fascism: How India’s Farmers’ Protests Cultivated Alternatives to Neoliberal Hindu Nationalist Dystopia Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Sarang Narasimhaiah
In this article I analyze the mass mobilizations mounted by Indian farmers against three pro-corporate agricultural bills passed by the far-right government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. I argue that the discourse of civil protest is insufficient to understand these mobilizations. On the contrary, they embody the principles of mutual aid, direct action, and intersectional and international solidarity
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Global Capitalism and Transnational Class Conflict Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Jerry Harris
Integrated global capitalism has emerged over the past forty years as the dominant economic system. This world system was constructed by the transnational capitalist class, which established hegemonic political and cultural power in both the Global North and South. Nevertheless, competition and contradictions characterize global capitalism, within and between classes as well as nation states.
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Decolonization of Higher Education in South Africa Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Ali Arazeem Abdullahi
Western education still dominates the education terrain across Africa. For some people, the dominance is nothing but ‘academic imperialism,’ which is believed to have relegated African scholars to mere conduits of knowledge through which European and American scholarship and interests are protected and promoted. Consequently, a dissident voice is resonating in the African educational system, particularly
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Diversification and Industrialization in the Economic Development of Turkmenistan Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Hoyoung Kwon, Jai S. Mah
In the early stages of its transition, Turkmenistan pursued a gradualist path. Diversification, industrialization, and market-based reforms led to very rapid economic growth particularly since the late 2000s. This article investigates the role of Turkmenistan’s economic development policy in diversifying industries and promoting the manufacturing sector. The government has diversified the destinations
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Exploring Visitor Perceptions towards Urban Park Design and Levels of Enclosure: A Case Study from the UAE Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Amna Gargoum, Ali S. Gargoum
As cities transition towards urbanization and sustainability, designing attractive green spaces and urban parks is an important issue to planners and urban designers. One factor believed to have some impact on a park’s attractiveness is level of enclosure. Despite the importance of such a factor in identifying types of park visitors and frequency of visits, a limited amount of research has attempted
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FM Stations’ Role in Rural Development: The Case of Northern Ghana Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Mu-azu Iddirisu Andani, Osman Antwi-Boateng
Over the past two decades, Ghana’s media landscape has undergone radical transformation, leading to the emergence of hundreds of frequency modulation (FM) stations across the country. These stations have become the country’s most powerful mediums of communication, carrying an array of programs aimed at diverse audiences. With northern Ghana as a case study, this research examines FM stations’ role
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Movers, Motives, and Impact of Illegal Small-Scale Mining: A Case Study in Ghana Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Osman Antwi-Boateng, Mamudu Akudugu
This research unravels the agents and driving motivation behind the rise of illegal small-scale mining in Ghana and its impact. This is accomplished via a qualitative study using illegal small-scale mining in the Talensi and Nabdam districts of Ghana as a case study. At the forefront of this phenomenon are rent-seeking elites, whereas structural factors such as rising unemployment and high population
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Assessing the Sustainability of Urban Water Supply Systems in Shillong, India Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Bankerlang Kharmylliem, Ngamjahao Kipgen
This article examines urban water supply systems by using indicators such as quantity, quality, accessibility, and reliability. Shillong city is divided into numerous localities, each governed by both formal (municipal) and informal (non-municipal) institutions. This study focuses on domestic water aspects in non-municipal areas and argues that water inequity is more prominent and widespread, and the
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Semi-Systematic Review of the Perceived Cost of Mobile Payment in Sub-Saharan Africa Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Cephas Paa Kwasi Coffie, Hongjiang Zhao
Financial technology offers convenience, security, and affordability. In sub-Saharan Africa, mobile money is the flagship offering hypothesized to promote financial inclusion. Nonetheless, the persistent complaints from end-users about the cost associated with mobile money usage in the sub-region have gone under the radar. Therefore, using the semi-systematic review of news articles and blogs’ in direct
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Social Distancing During the Sars-Cov2 (COVID-19) Pandemic: Interpretations and Implication in the African Context Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Robert Mutemi Kajiita, Simon Murote Kang’ethe
In absence of vaccine or a well-known treatment at onset of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), public health measures such as social distancing, washing hands, and wearing face masks were implemented as the most effective strategies to combat the spread of the virus. This article explores the perceptions and interpretations of COVID-19-related regulations and implications of the disease to human life
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South Africa in the Installation Phase of a New Techno-economic Paradigm Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Peter Stewart
South Africa’s situation of financialization, low growth, unemployment, and inequality is linked here to the ‘installation phase’ of a new technology as described by Carlotta Perez. South Africa’s informational economy is examined, and the role of the financial sector is summarized. The article then considers the strengths and weaknesses of the manufacturing and service sectors, and the embeddedness
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Students’ Perceptions Concerning Emergency Remote Teaching During COVID-19: A Case Study between Higher Education Institutions in Thailand and Finland Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Kevin Fuchs
The sudden shift from physical classroom education towards emergency remote teaching (ERT) in higher education during the unprecedented global pandemic SARS-CoV-2, or more commonly known as COVID-19, caused an abrupt change in the learning environment for students and educators alike. The disruptive overnight change to convert entire courses to emergency remote teaching caused distress for not only