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Improving Health in the Maldives: Stakeholder Perspectives on the Maldivian Health Sector – the North Region

Improving Health in the Maldives: Stakeholder Perspectives on the Maldivian Health Sector – the North Region

In November 2020, Maldives Research organised a health forum to explore stakeholders’ perspectives on the healthcare services in the northern atolls in the Maldives. Together with key healthcare workers, the respective council representatives of Haa Alif, Haa Dhaal, Shaviyani, Noonu, Raa, Baa and Lhaviyani, policymakers and private sector healthcare service providers, the forum undertook rich a...
The political economy of development: The case of the tourism industry in the Maldives

The political economy of development: The case of the tourism industry in the Maldives

By A Midha Abstract This dissertation will seek to examine the reasons behind the success of the Maldives tourism industry. It will look at what theories best explain the success of the industrial policy. It will argue that the political economy theories of rent seeking are crucial to understanding how the tourism industry managed to grow so successfully in the context of a rent seeking society, g...