Flouris, Andreas D; Babar, Zahra; Ioannou, Leonidas G; Onarheim, Kristine H; Phua, Kai H; Hargreaves, Sally(BMJ, 2021)
To host big sporting events such as the Olympic Games and the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup, countries undertake large infrastructure projects, including building new stadiums and ...
Onarheim, Kristine Husøy; Phua, Kai Hong; Babar, Zahra R; Flouris, Andreas D; Hargreaves, Sally(BMJ, 2021-08-06)
Migrant construction workers, a subgroup of the world’s 164 million international labour migrants—the largest migrant group globally—leave their homes and families for employment opportunities in high income countries.1 ...
Mukhtarova, Akbikesh(Deutsch-Kasachische Universität, 2021-09-22)
Academic scholarship captures different land governance dimensions while focusing mainly on agrarian, legal,
and economic aspects. However, little to no attention is paid to land governance consideration through public
policy ...
Orken, Aikerim; Yerbolkyzy, Ayaulym; Otantayeva, Zhaniya(Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy, 2021-04-23)
This paper investigates factors that have a significant influence on decision-making for
using public bike-sharing schemes of the residents of the Nur-Sultan and Almaty cities. Recently, municipalities have introduced ...
For the first 15 years of the new millennium, several countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have experienced longs spells of “sustained economic growth” that translated into considerable progress along the developmental ...
Mukhtarova, Akbikesh(Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CRJSSH), 2020-10)
While analyzing data for 47 Sub-Saharan African countries, this article explores the correlation between Legislative Oversight and Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) and the effects of Party System Fluidity on WGI and ...
The legal progression in China is portrayed negatively by western scholars who often argue that the state institutions in China are subordinate to the control of Chinese Communist Party’s leadership which makes these ...
Engineering, economic, social sciences, geophysical, and integrated modeling studies have approached the assessment of water security in Central Asia (CA) in distinct ways. Different indicators and indexes have been ...
Suzuki, Kohei; Ha, Hyesong; Avellaneda, Claudia N.(Wiley, 2020-04-08)
Among these pressures, demographic shifts seem to boostinnovation, as the public sector responds to the arrivalof migrants and to community changes in race and eth-nic composition. However, we know little about innova-tion ...
Tuleussarinova, Saule; Altybayeva, Zhazira(Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy, 2020-11)
Kazakhstan faces significant challenges in the field of mental health care and currently, there is an ongoing reform, which aims at improving the overall situation with the provision of quality care and transforming the ...
Kilibayev, Azamat; Sultanbekova, Ayana; Sadykov, Mukhtar(Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy, 2020-11-28)
In September 2019, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan in his address to the Nation mentioned the possibility of using pension savings for buying a house or educational purposes and the reform of the pension system ...
Kangozhina, Aliya; Ibragimova, Inara; Zhumagaliyev, Ardak(Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy, 2020-11-29)
The human trafficking is one of the most profitable international crimes. Unfortunately, Kazakhstan is among notoriously known countries where human trafficking takes all possible forms. Being a country of origin, destination ...
Engineering, economic, social sciences, geophysical, and integrated modeling studies have approached the assessment of water security in Central Asia (CA) in distinct ways. Different indicators and indexes have been ...
Baktybayev, Bektas(Pusat Penelitian Ilmu Sosial dan Humaniora Kontemporer, 2020-04)
Corruption remains one of the main problems of Post-Soviet states. Georgia, Belarus, Lithuania, and Latvia are doing relatively well compared to other Post-Soviet states. Popular explanations for high corruption rates are ...
Zhalgas, Zhassulan; Alshagirov, Olzhas(Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy, 2019)
In the 21st century, there are many challenges with water resources in the world. To battle these challenges, Kazakhstan introduced the hydrographic (river) basin management approach in 2004 by establishing River Basin ...
Agricultural water use in Tajikistan is largely based on mechanized irrigation pumps. The farming community cannot afford the cost of the energy used for pumping, resulting in large debts to the service provider. We propose ...
Davletova, Indira; Makhazhan, Indira(Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy, 2020)
Kazakhstan’s Conditional Targeted Social Assistance (CTSA) program is a large-scale workfare program that targets poor people, who are able to work. This study evaluates the cost-effectiveness of the CTSA program in ...
Kumar, Yernazar; Rakhymkul, Yedige(Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy, 2020-04-24)
Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO) in the tourism industry play a crucial role in promoting, marketing, and disseminating the destination image and its brand via different communication channels. One of them is the ...