The economic implications of adopting different grid connection regimes are also assessed.
The connection between the regime of benefit sanctions and the decimation of basic services has led to a rise in food banks, shoplifting and begging.
Diamond argues that it also helps to have lots of connections to the regime in question.
This is because economic growth was concentrated in the hands of a chosen few with regime connections and was not accompanied by the development of adequate social protection measures for the masses left behind.
Ishimaru said he and his colleagues had been talking daily to sources inside North Korea with connections to the regime, as well as to North Korean businessmen in China, and none had reported anything untoward in the North's political arrangements.
Disillusioned Libyans say that they pursue only those who lack powerful connections to the regime.With Libya's youthful population set to double in the next 25 years, job-creation is a driving force behind the campaign to attract foreign capital.
After an interregnum he moves the family to Syria, though the job he has been offered in Damascus is a relatively lowly one (only those with connections to the regime of Hafez al-Assad, whose rising forehead can be seen on every billboard, get the top jobs).
Beirão and his middle- and upper-class compatriots, many of whom are college educated and have parents with regime connections, brought a new dynamic to the movement aimed at getting dos Santos to loosen his grip on power.
In the village of Qusayr, not far from the city of Homs and an in area with a high proportion of Christians, the last several months have seen a wave of violence directed specifically against local Christians with regime connections- or simply those who, because of their minority identity, were assumed to have had them.
(So much for the family's connection to the Marcos regime).
