During the past few decades, the competition for foreign direct investments (FDI) has increased around the world. FDI can contribute to economic development not only by being a source of foreign capital, but also by providing employment opportunities, increasing competition, and most importantly transferring skills and knowledge i.e. spillover effects. However, these positive effects are not autom

The Chinese economy has been growing with a pace and duration that the world has never seen before. Since 1978, the country has been facing a constant economic growth for more than 30 years. One of the pillars of the economy is the automotive industry; an interesting mixture of Joint Ventures and independent companies. The competition is cut throat and has even been more intense after the China’s

Recently the question of agriculture development has been emphasised as an important part of balanced sustainable growth in China. My paper accounts for different growth trajectories and development pace between coastal regions and inland provinces. My interest is more convergence-divergence between agriculture development in different regions than convergence-divergence between rural and urban ar

Since the 1970s, the world economy integration and financial globalization has become an irreversible trend. Each country is facing to opening up or further opening their banking system. The international experience shows that foreign banks’ entering has a deep impact on the host country banking sector. With the deepening of China's reform and opening up and the accession to WTO, foreign banks

In our time it is widely argued that we are undergoing global transformations that influence the way we think about ourselves and how we interact and form ties with others. The intensified global integration of service sectors during the last five to ten years underscores such transformations. In recent research and among popular commentators the rise of transnational call-centers in India that pr

Denna rapport är ett resultat av ett examensarbete som undersöker hur RFID-teknologi kan användas vid leveranser av prefabricerade betongelement för att på så sätt få en ökad kontroll och ett optimerat flöde av dessa leveranser till och på en byggarbetsplats. RFID är en förkortning för Radio Frekvens Identifiering och är ett system som möjliggör informationsöverföring mellan en tagg, även kallad

In this thesis a first order differential supply response model, the Linear Approximate Acreage Allocation Model (Holt, 1999), is used to analyze the competition between ethanol (sugarcane) and food crops (soy, corn, cotton, rice and orange) in Brazil. In this linear multi-crop supply response model total land is assumed to exogenous, leaving the shares to be estimated along with elasticities betw

The ECB has the ultimate responsibility for the single monetary policy. The ECB’s goal is maintaining price stability over the medium term; this means ensuring inflation stays in the region of 2 percent. If some EMU members are more favoured by the ECB’s interest rate decisions then this would cause implicit problems and overall, the monetary union would face problems regarding structural divergen

Den här uppsatsen undersöker de positiva och negativa effekter en subventionering av utbildning framkallar i en ekonomi. En investering i humankapitalet är en viktig del av produktionen och påverkar därmed inkomstnivåerna i positiv riktning. Samtidigt ger subventioneringen upphov till kostnader som kan påverka produktionen negativt och förorsaka låga initiala inkomster, lägre konsumtion och lägre

During the last ten years several international studies and reports have paid attention to the sexual life of HIV-positive homosexual men, while in Sweden this area is unexplored and has to be investigated in the future. The lack of knowledge of the sexual life of HIV-positive homosexual men risks to stigmatize still more this group of people who are already exposed in society. The aim of the repo

It has been argued that the choice blindness effect is only present in quick and intuitive tasks such as preference decisions for faces or shapes, and not when it comes to more important and deliberative decisions involving issues like moral, political or religious beliefs. To answers this criticism, using a method inspired by close up magic, we investigated whether participants would notice chang

Problem: To develop high performance washing concept, while being simple and environmentally friendly. The concept is to be used as a base for more detailed design of a mobile waste bin washing machine where the driving force is the demand for cleaner working environment. Method: The market is researched in order to evaluate the competition as well as to get a deeper knowledge of the problem at ha

Objective: The objectives set out for this Master Thesis were: · How should a coffee machine for home use be designed and which features should the machine provide? · How should an experimental prototype be manufactured? · How should an experimental prototype be tested? Method: The thesis is written as a product development report and essentially follows the methods described by Ulrich and Eppinge

The objective of this thesis is the integration of the TRIZ-method (Altshuller) and the AAK-method (Roth)into the industrial design engineering process model and the validation of the integration by the industril design engineering project "Conceptual design of an armchair for elderly people".

To allow the user interface in a mobile phone more space, slide modules are implemented. The usage of slide modules introduces many new challenges when designing a mobile phone. New solutions to these challenges is the main scope for this thesis. Nokia currently has several different slide phones out on the market implementing some sort of slide module. The slide module provides extra space for th

This Master Thesis project is performed at Tetra Pak in Modena, Italy. The overall objective of the overall Locking Pin project as this thesis project is a part of, is to understand the root cause of a failing locking pin. The locking pin is located in a filling machine and failures due to fatigue. The function of the locking pin is to bind up the filling pipe to a pressure flange. The locking pin

Problem descrip-tion: Design codes today are generally based on simplified hand-book calculations, which cause problems with the application of FEM. There are no recommendations in the design codes on how FEM shall be applied when performing fatigue life analysis of welded joints. The difficulty lies in how the results shall be interpreted. Objective: The objective with this project is to establis

Sealings are an important part in the industrial robot. One important property of the seal is to keep all particles and fluids from the outside, away from the important components inside the robot. Another important property is to keep the oil and grease inside the robot, and prevent leakage. The seal also prevent leakage inside the industrial robot and reduces the risks of sensitive components to

Texo AB is a private company which is specialized on development of looms for production of paper machine clothing. The company is located to Älmhult in southern Sweden and today employs about 90 persons. The calculation job treats 4 independent tasks, of which 3 is dealing with the same type of machine which is almost at the prototype state at the moment. The new machine TC 74 is a cam controlled