A General Review of the Conceptual Dimensions of Quality of Leisure, Tourism, and Sports with a Particular Focus on Iran

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Taghi Sheykhi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Third World ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Qualitative Change ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

AbstractThe paper explores how quality of life is influenced by leisure, tourism, and sports. While these three concepts are counted as the cultural needs of the current industrial and especially urban life, they are not well-provided in many parts of the Third World. While working hours are shortened in the industrial world, followed by provision of leisure and tourism, leisure opportunities are less prevalent in the developing world including many parts of Asia. It should be kept in mind that changes in the quantitative aspects of such concepts lead to qualitative change in any society. This trinity, which also leads to modernization and development, acts as an economic multiplier as well. Today, while the industrial countries invest on employment, they simultaneously do the same on leisure time and sports. Under the overall conditions, the developing countries, including Iran, have yet a long way to go.

scholarly journals Another Development in Health

1970 ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Health Care ◽  
General Health ◽  
Third World ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Dag Hammarskjold

A seminar on "Another Development in Health," organized in June 1977 at the Dag Hammarskjold Center at Uppsala, Sweden, declared that the crisis in health care "is not limited to the Third World but is becoming increasingly evident in the industrialized countries as well." It was made clear that development based on economic growth is not a guarantee of general health and welfare unless it is man-centered and works to improve the quality of life that man is leading.

scholarly journals Perspectives of Entrepreneurial Orientation with the Quality of Life

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 388-394
Author(s):  
Salima Hafeez ◽  
Rashid Mehmood Chaudhry . ◽  
Muhammad Aslam Khan . ◽  
H.Mushtaq Ahmad . ◽  
Kashif Ur Rehman .
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Third World ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firms ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Impact

The characteristics of entrepreneurial orientation is played important role in business. How do an entrepreneurial firms and individuals have taken the advantage in industry? This study explores the dynamic capabilities of the organization according to international performance. Our findings indicates the positive impact on dynamic capabilities of the business with perfectly use of this research framework. The main aspect of this paper is to analyse the impact of entrepreneurial orientation with the quality of life. Distinctive features of entrepreneurs and their contribution to the economy can make it possible for third world countries to grow their economies faster and provide financial means to enhance social, health, and environmental well-being (basic dimensions of quality of life), along with products and services that the poor need in these countries. Entrepreneurial orientation combined with organization learning and Quality of life (QOL) are enhanced the dynamic capability of the organization. Present conceptual research will provide the source of competitive advantage and mainstream line for further development of the business .We suggest that existing literature reconfiguring the different approaches for the entrepreneurial to capture the opportunities in world business. First, quality of life cannot possibly improve in inactive or weakening economic conditions; second, economic development in the third world countries cannot advance in a balanced and desirable manner without a major domestic entrepreneurship movement (Samli 2004, 2008a).

scholarly journals Cidades, sustentabilidade e risco

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Da Costa FERREIRA
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
State Government ◽  
Third World ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Risk Indicators ◽  
The Third ◽  
Traffic Jams ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Near Future

O artigo enfoca o processo de globalização e as metrópoles, considerando que em futuro próximo as megacidades estarão concentradas em países emergentes. De outra forma, à aceleração da desigualdade social soma-se a crise do Estado, que inviabilizou o seu poder de investimento em infra-estrutura e serviços sociais. Como resultado, para uma parcela crescente da população, a vida urbana também passou a ser sinônimo de desemprego, miséria, violência, favelas, congestionamentos e poluição, consubstanciando indicadores de má qualidade de vida e de riscos à população. Cities, sustainability and risk Abstract The article focuses on the globalization process and on the metropolis, considering that in the near future, the megacities will be concentrated in the third world nations. More over, to the growing social inequality it is added the crisis of the state government, which has turned impractical its power to invest in infrastructure and social services. As a result, to an increasing number of people, the urban life became also a synonymou to unemployment, misery, violence, shanty towns, traffic jams and pollution, consolidating low life quality and population risk indicators.

Have Agricultural Economists Neglected Poverty Issues? (The Distinguishedl Lecture)

1991 ◽  
Vol 30 (4I) ◽  
pp. 551-578
Author(s):  
William C. Thlesenhusen
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Industrial Country ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
The Third ◽  
Black Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Third World

In the short term one can be pessimistic about the collective progress of the Third World and its interactions with industrial countries. There is plenty of bad news. With one-quarter of the world's population, industrialized countries consume about 80 percent of the world's goods. With three-quarters of the world's population, developing countries command less than one-quarter of the world's resources. And the imbalance is growing worse.! Of the 2.7 billion people in the tropical and subtropical regions outside of China, 40 percent live in poverty; more than 14 million of their children under 5 years of age starve to death or die of disease each year? Furthermore, at the same time as an increasing proportion of the population of Africa is composed of young people (65 percent of its population is now under age 25), education budgets are being cut - from $ 10.8 billion in 1980 to $ 5.8 billion in 1986.3 In an article assessing the globalization of economies, Richard J. Barnet writes: "Poverty, population pressures, civil war, and repression are turning Sub-Saharan Africa - black Africa minus South Africa and Namibia - into a giant disaster zone, and in countries in South America, such as Colombia and Peru, the civil society is dissolving. In the Philippines more than seventy percent of the population is poor by any human standard. With the end of the Cold War, the increasing marginalization of the Third World appears likely."4 The predictions are ominous. Barnet concludes his article, written before the crisis in Iraq, by speaking to an industrial-country audience: "There is no real north-south dialogue, and politicians in the industrial world feel little pressure to begin one.

Strategies to Influence Nutrition Behaviour

1990 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 189-204
Author(s):  
Maisie C. Steven
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Basic Understanding ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Made In ◽  
Nutrition Behaviour

An attempt is made in this paper to consider first the current nutritional scene with its problems, and then to suggest strategies for improvement. Since the quality of people’s diets everywhere is influenced by many different factors, not least by availability of food, a bility to pay for it, and some (however basic) understanding of its effects upon health, a strong plea is made for consideration to be given to those most in need of nutritional help—the least advantaged and least motivated groups in the developed countries, as well as the poor in the Third World. Some strategies aimed at improving nutrition behaviour are outlined.

Plundering the Poor: The Role of the World Bank in the Third World

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-660
Author(s):  
Ernest Feder
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Third World ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third World

The World Bank, the most important so-called development assistance agency, annually dispenses billions of dollars to Third World governments, ostensibly to “develop” their economies through a variety of loan projects. But even a superficial analysis reveals that the Bank is the perfect mechanism to help (i.e., subsidize) the large transnational corporations from the industrial countries to expand their industrial, commercial, and financial activities in the Third World, at the expense of the latter and particularly at the expense of the rural and urban proletariat. This article discusses Cheryl Payer's recent book, The World Bank: A Critical Analysis, in which she analyzes the Bank's role in the Third World and sets forth the major reasons why poverty, hunger, and malnutrition, as well as unemployment, and all the adverse social phenomena associated with them, are on the increase.

Diffusion and the Development of Social Policy: Evidence from the Third World

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Midgley
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Third World ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Societal Factors ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Welfare Services ◽  
The Third World

ABSTRACTComparative studies of the origins of statutory welfare services have focused largely on the role of intra-societal factors in the genesis of welfare in the industrial countries. Developments in the developing countries, which comprise the majority of the world's nations, have not been adequately researched nor has the role of diffusion in transmitting social policies and practices been properly assessed. A review of the growth of modern social welfare services in the developing countries suggests that the diffusion of ideas and practices has been particularly important in the creation of their social services. This finding illustrates the need for a more broadly-based enquiry which pays greater attention to the role of diffusion in the development of statutory welfare.

A Vivacious Delineation of Public Universities at Dhaka: An Emphatic Gaze on Quality Education

2013 ◽  
Vol 03 (05) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Abu Zafar Ahmed Mukul ◽  
Abdullah Ishak Khan ◽  
Shahnaz Sharmin ◽  
Mohammad Tanjimul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Third World ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
The Third ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Extra Curricular Activities ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Day By Day

Education is considered as a basic right of human being and perhaps it is the most important elementary need that human deserves. As society is flourishing its paragon of beauty for developing it towards a newer mould day by day human is in a need of more knowledge to reign over the world. Though education assists human to cope up with the vogue world a major portion of it is deprived of this facility. Due to some lacking students of the third world countries like Bangladesh are lying behind in higher education. In this paper we insisted on those factors having perceptible and beyond sight potency in quality of higher education such as criteria of choosing an institution, satisfaction about some criterion e.g. language proficiency, computer learning, professional knowledge, extra curricular activities etc. with some inevitable tests.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document