Social Sciences

Volume 4, Issue 6, December 2015

  • Social Inclusion of the Poor Migrants in the Contemporary Vietnamese Urban Life: A Quantitative Analysis

    Kham Van Tran, Quyet Van Pham

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 6, December 2015
    Pages: 127-133
    Received: 11 October 2015
    Accepted: 23 October 2015
    Published: 3 November 2015
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    Abstract: Vietnam is on the rapid urbanization process and wide employment changes nationwide which leads to the impacts to the inter-regional migrations, especially the rural-urban flows. Recent research and papers on social policy and current trends on migration also found that the migration makes social changes and problems in the urban life and for the m... Show More
  • Determinants of Corruption in Kenya: Born and Bred to Bribe

    Odhiambo Fredrick Onyango

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 6, December 2015
    Pages: 134-141
    Received: 11 September 2015
    Accepted: 24 September 2015
    Published: 10 November 2015
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    Abstract: Corruption is an epidemic in Kenya. Major corruption scandals have been reported since the early 90’s. These include the Turkwel Hydroelectric Power Station scandal (1986 – 1990), the Goldenberg scandal (1990 – 1999), the Grand Regency scandal in 2008, and the Triton Oil scandal in 2009 among numerous others. Despite the attempts to fight corruptio... Show More
  • The Politics of Transport in the Perspective of Land Transport Policy (A Case Study in Indonesia)

    Bambang Istianto

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 6, December 2015
    Pages: 142-149
    Received: 21 September 2015
    Accepted: 24 October 2015
    Published: 22 December 2015
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    Abstract: The Term of Transport politics has relation between politics and transport. Carrying out a research on transport politics in the perspective of transport policy aims to develop the idea of building a new paradigm of transport politics which is expected to be able to solve the problems of the formulation and the implementation of the land transport ... Show More