title: Discourse on the operationalisation of and accounting for development in a Fijian context

authors: Ali, Nur Bano

abstract: The differentiation of social practices between societies, be it accounting or any other social science discipline, constitutes the foundation and premise upon which this thesis is constructed. With this as the initial motivating factor, and through an analysis and assessment of the Fiji Development Bank (FDB) as a development institution (the only institution committed to development in Fiji by its official charter), the study aspires to give prominence to the need to locate contextually, the workings of institutions such as these. A reflection upon the operationalisation of development in Fiji through the FDB will illuminate the comprehension of this concept, both in Fiji and globally. From this perspective then the omni-present nature of both development and accounting practices will be examined for contextual differences. A contextual analysis which is incorporative of a society’s social, political, economic, and historical circumstances is necessary to understand in depth, its practices and institutions as opposed to some generalised universal application. Such a contextual sensitivity is integral to a critical analysis today and is central to this study. 

Integral to, and in conformity with the concern to differentiate, is the need to problematise the exclusionary nature of accounting practices which are universally applied for the measurement of concepts such as development.

text: Discourse on the operationalisation of and accounting for development in a Fijian context The differentiation of social practices between societies, be it accounting or any other social science discipline, constitutes the foundation and premise upon which this thesis is constructed. With this as the initial motivating factor, and through an analysis and assessment of the Fiji Development Bank (FDB) as a development institution (the only institution committed to development in Fiji by its official charter), the study aspires to give prominence to the need to locate contextually, the workings of institutions such as these. A reflection upon the operationalisation of development in Fiji through the FDB will illuminate the comprehension of this concept, both in Fiji and globally. From this perspective then the omni-present nature of both development and accounting practices will be examined for contextual differences. A contextual analysis which is incorporative of a society’s social, political, economic, and historical circumstances is necessary to understand in depth, its practices and institutions as opposed to some generalised universal application. Such a contextual sensitivity is integral to a critical analysis today and is central to this study. 

Integral to, and in conformity with the concern to differentiate, is the need to problematise the exclusionary nature of accounting practices which are universally applied for the measurement of concepts such as development.

year: 1998

title: Meta-analysis of empirical evidence on the labour market impacts of immigration

authors: Longhi, Simonetta

subjects: immigration

abstract: The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the ‘absorption capacity’ of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in countries that attract migrants. In previous papers we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical literature by means of meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on wages and employment of native-born workers. While we have shown that the labour market impacts in terms of wages and employment are rather small, the sample of studies available to generate comparable effect sizes was severely limited by the heterogeneity in study approaches. In the present paper, we take an encompassing approach and consider a broad range of labour market outcomes: wages, employment, unemployment and labour force participation. We compare 45 primary studies published between 1982 and 2007 for a total of 1,572 effect sizes. We trichotomise the various labour market outcomes as benefiting, harming or not affecting the native born, and use an ordered probit model to assess the relationship between this observed impact and key study characteristics such as type of country, methodology, period of investigation and type of migrant.

text: Meta-analysis of empirical evidence on the labour market impacts of immigration The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the ‘absorption capacity’ of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in countries that attract migrants. In previous papers we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical literature by means of meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on wages and employment of native-born workers. While we have shown that the labour market impacts in terms of wages and employment are rather small, the sample of studies available to generate comparable effect sizes was severely limited by the heterogeneity in study approaches. In the present paper, we take an encompassing approach and consider a broad range of labour market outcomes: wages, employment, unemployment and labour force participation. We compare 45 primary studies published between 1982 and 2007 for a total of 1,572 effect sizes. We trichotomise the various labour market outcomes as benefiting, harming or not affecting the native born, and use an ordered probit model to assess the relationship between this observed impact and key study characteristics such as type of country, methodology, period of investigation and type of migrant.

year: 2008-02

title: Utilising matauranga Maori to improve the social functioning of tangata whaiora in Maori mental health services

authors: Wirihana, Rebecca

subjects: Maori

abstract: Maori mental health services under the Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) have been utilising Matauranga Maori as a key community based intervention since the closing of the kaupapa Maori inpatient service (Manawaanui) in 2003. Kapa haka has been a central component in the provision of the marae based recovery programmes. The following paper is a review of the development and progress.

text: Utilising matauranga Maori to improve the social functioning of tangata whaiora in Maori mental health services Maori mental health services under the Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) have been utilising Matauranga Maori as a key community based intervention since the closing of the kaupapa Maori inpatient service (Manawaanui) in 2003. Kapa haka has been a central component in the provision of the marae based recovery programmes. The following paper is a review of the development and progress.

year: 2008