Comparative research is a research methodology in the social sciences that aims to make comparisons across different countries or cultures.

Research on Comparative Criminal Justice in Latin America , American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, Georgia, 1977.

There are numerous reasons that comparative research has come to take a place of honour in the toolbox of the social scientist.

My research with Maggie McMillan of Tufts University and the International Food Policy Research Institute shows that countries with a strong comparative advantage in natural resources are particularly prone to fall into the trap of growth reducing structural change.

What matters is dynamic comparative advantage, or comparative advantage in the long run, which can be shaped.

But we have few case studies and even fewer comparative research mappings of Internet based projects that aim to improve governance, especially in countries outside of North America and Western Europe.

This is a major comparative advantage.

Comparative review of the desk function

A major problem in comparative research is that the data sets in different countries may not use the same categories, or define categories differently (for example by using different definitions of poverty).

Particularly remarkable about the book is the approach of research in so far as the comparison is completely based on the functional comparative method rather than on the basis of separate country reports.

Today, a new comparative debate has started.

One is a shift in comparative advantage.

Comparative figures for the Annual Programme Fund

Comparative figures for the Supplementary Programme Fund

Comparative Analysis of Offers to Host the

African Society of International and Comparative Law

A comparative assessment of existing efforts is necessary.

Comparative table on limitation levels of carrier liability

Comparative table on limitation levels of carrier liability

UNODC possesses significant comparative advantages for delivering assistance in

LDCs' comparative advantage is in exports of labour intensive services.

The challenge is thus to convert comparative advantages into competitiveness.

(e) LLM (with distinction) majoring in Comparative Criminal Law 1991

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The fact that the Institute's unique mandate gives it a comparative advantage in respect of conducting research and capacity building activities in strategic areas has been reiterated throughout the years by the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly.

(k) Addressing the lack of timely, reliable and sex disaggregated data, including through intensifying efforts to include women's unpaid work in official statistics, and developing a systematic and comparative research base on rural women that will inform policy and programme decisions.

Speaker at the round table on criminal law at the International Congress on Cultures and Comparative Juridical Systems, organized by the Juridical Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), held in Mexico from 9 to 14 February 2004.

Furthermore, SWFs have comparative advantages over other kinds of institutional investors.

Professor UNM Law School Seminars in Comparative Criminal Law 1976 1977

Syria conducted a comparative study of photographs of Resafe's northern gate.

Do we have the comparative advantage to use another sort of energy?

Forty years ago, South Korea had a comparative advantage in growing rice.

He was a professor in comparative politics at the University of Bergen.

Approaches to the Comparative Study of the Processes of Development (Universitetsforlaget, Oslo.

Comparative Criminal Law (a) An appraisal of the principles of criminal punishment

Table 1 Comparative procurement volumes of United Nations entities and specialized agencies

Europe is equally responsible for advancing research on more secure technologies, particularly a fourth generation of nuclear reactor technology. We Europeans cannot afford the luxury of dismantling a high value added industrial sector in which we still have a real comparative advantage.

Comparative data show that indigenous girls attend school less often than boys do.

1989 1990 Diploma in International Law and Comparative Human Rights Law (Strasbourg, France).

Comparative table for varying factors for geographical distribution as at 31 December 2004

From this perspective, these countries comparative advantage is having other countries exploit their resources.

Egypt s comparative advantage lies in labor intensive services as opposed to one time products

Comparative advantages are derived from resource endowments, and competitiveness stems from firm centred initiatives.

Since 1994 Member of the African Society of International and Comparative Law (ASICL), London.

The visual observations relied on both witness statements and comparative studies of photographic evidence.