This bachelor thesis analyses the impact that development projects working with higher education and micro-credit have on youth’s empowerment processes. I have made a minor field study in Kenya and conducted 21 semi-structured respondent interviews with a group with higher education, a group that was provided with micro-credit and a group which was not provided with neither. The interviews were co

This paper attempts to answer two interrelated questions: what is good governance and what is its relationship with human development, and what allowed China to outperform India on the Human Development Index. The United Nations Development Programme and scholars connect human development very closely with good governance. However, even as its HDI score is 28% higher than India’s, China’s quality

The aim of this essay is to examine the relationship between the European Commission and civil by focusing on the issue of legitimacy. This study takes a critical stand towards the prevailing view in the debate on the EU’s democratic deficit. This view that centers on that EU institutions, like national parliaments and governments, derive most of their legitimacy from public input, so-called input

The largest Stone Age micro region in Latvia, has been discovered and extensively investigated during the 1960s -1980s in the Lake Lubāns basin. This master thesis discuss the interaction between hunter-gatherers and the environment in the developing stages of the Lake Lubāns. The literature studies have been carried out in attempt to find out whether people adapted to the environment and ecologic

Policy institutes, or think tanks as they are more commonly known, are usually described as a bridge between research and politics. With time, these organizations have taken new trajectories and today exist in various different forms – but are still referred to by the same term. This phenomenon has its counterparts in Sweden, and yet research about these organizations is nonexistent. This study in

This thesis is an osteological analysis of the bone assemblage from the quarter Hjärtat 4 in Halmstad, dating about 1320-1500 AD. The main aim was to quantify taxa and body parts, estimate sex and age at death, calculate withers height, identify taphonomic processes and record pathological conditions. Using this information, the next step was to analyze husbandry decisions and make an attempt to u

Almost all children and teenagers are active in sports clubs at some time during their lives. Sports clubs have a significant impact during childhood and adolescence, and they play a key developmental role. Participating in a sports club helps a person gain the kind of social capital that has a substantial positive impact on individuals and consequently on society. The very foundation of sports cl

The aim of this thesis is to explain which ideas have been at work when it comes to Malmö municipality’s integration policy. Furthermore I aim to see how their integration ideas are made into real actions taken by the municipality. With theories on the subjects of integration, multiculturalism, recognition, justice and equality I aim to explain the choices of action taken by Malmö municipality. Th

In the past decades, global challenges including food insecurity were viewed almost entirely as a rural phenomenon. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, rapid urbanization in the developing world has jeopardized livelihoods along the urban periphery leading to the gradual relocation of food insecurity closer to the urban areas. Hence, the purpose of this study was to explore hous

This report is a result of a Master Thesis project in mechanical engineering by Niklas Henriksson. It was done at Edenhall from September 2010 to May 2011. Edenhall has the past fifty years developed and manufactured bet harvesters. Vibrat-ing plows have long been the most common plow type as it can handle the most working condition. However this plow type has always been expensive in mainten-ance

Technology is often used as a method in memory intervention but there is a gap between what we know about memory processes and the interaction with technology tools (Topo, 2009; Dascal & Dror, 2005; Hjälmedelsinstitutet, 2011). This study aims to investigate how human use our memory in a real world setting and how we valuate a technological memory tool developed to support mild memory decline.

Brazil is the only country that has managed to successfully implement an economically viable large-scale biofuel program. In 2008, locally produced ethanol derived from sugarcane replaced more than half of the domestic gasoline market, without the aid of any government subsidies. Ethanol in Brazil represents an economically lucrative industry that also contributes to national energy and environmen

Abstract Title Perceptions of Leadership in Chinese Heavy Industry: A Case Study Course Master‟s thesis in Business Administration, Programme for Managing People, Knowledge and Change, 15 University Credit Points (15 ECTS). Author Xiaoyan Zhang Supervisor Martin Blom Keywords Chinese culture, Western culture, leadership, emotional attachment, conflict resolution, motivation Purpose The g

Title: Core values and brand promises – A mixed quantitative and qualitative study of core values, brand promises and their interdependence among 104 Fortune 500 companies. Date of the seminar: May 31, 2011 Course: BUSM08 Degree Project in International Marketing and Brand Management Authors: Per Andersson and Ola Johansson Supervisor: Associate Professor Mats Urde, PhD; Docent Keywords: Core valu

This paper seeks to examine trends in Chinese household consumption. It is comprised of a two-fold study, which undertakes both an exploratory and an explanatory approach. First, an analysis into the nature of household consumption examines trends in purchasing habits. Specifically, data on the consumption and prevalence of durable household goods and major food commodities is gathered to establis

Abstract Författare: Mikael Nilsson, 811104-0419 Titel: I´m a Survivor - en studie om dem som får stanna efter företagens nedskärningar Kandidatuppsats: SOCK01, 15 hp Vårterminen: 2011 Handledare: Anders Järnegren Att vara en survivor inom arbetslivet är att vara den som, när företagen skär ned på sin personal, får stanna. Jag ska därför i denna uppsats genom intervjuer och insamling av tidigare

Springing from the relatively newco-creation paradigm, this article is based on the fact that consumers have asignificant influence on the brand building process. However consumers cannotbe understood as a sound and compact group of buyers with homogeneous values. Insteadvarious societal developments, and in particular the emergence of consumertribes, support the existence of a multiplicity of con

In principal our empirical findings confirm the applicability of the Uppsala Model on SMEs. However we believe the Uppsala Model to be very general. This is the reason why it fails to explain some complexities in the real world. Simultaneously the model’s general approach is also its biggest strength. Since it focuses on explaining the fundamental elements of internationalizing firms it is possibl

This paper presents the first empirical study on Chinese firms’ disclosure of macroeconomic risks. We study the impact of mandatory IFRS adoption in 2007 on listed Chinese firms’ disclosure of macroeconomic risks. 45 out of 100 firms improved their quality of disclosure in their 2010 annual report compared to 2005 (or 2006).We also find that that firms which employ Big 4 audit firms, belong to fin