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This study explores the extent to which decentralization has affected farmers’ access to agricultural advisory services in the Sunyani Municipality of Ghana. Specifically, it focuses on how political and organizational factors, which are intermediate outcomes of decentralization, affect the availability and relevance of advisory services. The study follows a qualitative research design employing q

Inequality and the risk of poverty in Icelandic society have been in the debate since the economic crisis in 2008. The family policy is criticised by academics for a lack of economic support for individuals with dependent children both in the form of child benefits and low payments during parental leave. The purpose of this thesis is to analyse how economic support for families of cohabitating par

Bakgrund och problem: E-handel uppstod i samband med utvecklingen av Internet och fenomenet är därför idag tillgängligt för de flesta människor i dagens uppkopplade och trådlösa samhälle. Idag finns det en del forskning om hur konsumenter tänker och resonerar när de e-handlar men det finns få studier som undersöker hur företagen agerar utifrån sina kunder. E-handelsföretag har inte chansen att fys

The media’s portrayal of the witness during court proceedings is putting the witness at risk for threats. This has led to the witness not wanting to testify, especially as the case concerns organized crime. It is an age old debate where intimidated witnesses are a concern for the legal system, and people’s human rights in general. The debate is complex as the use of anonymous witnesses goes agains

The aim with this study was to examine how professionals working with people with disabilities apprehend their work with sexuality and how it is constructed in interaction with disability and gender. Some light have also been shed on the conflicting roles of these professionals when laws are contravene or lacks proper guidelines. The method used to gather empirics was semi-structured interviews an

The focus of this thesis is to revise, summarize and analyze the political aspects of Cuba in Antes que anochezca and Viaje a La Habana by the Cuban poet/writer, Reinaldo Arenas, who upon being declared a dissident due to his counter revolutionary ideas and his sexual orientation, suffered oppression, persecution and, finally, exile from Cuba when he, much against his will, travelled to the United

Principen om reklamidentifiering; att en annonsör tydligt måste ange att en annons är reklam, har funnits länge. Den är omhuldad både av medierna, näringslivet och allmänheten i stort. Ända fram till 1970-talet var det näringslivet som genom olika branschregler och privata instanser upprätthöll en viss standard för marknadsföringen. Brist på reklamidentifiering ansågs strida mot god marknadsföringThe rule of identification of advertising; that an advertiser clearly has to show that an advertisement is commercial, is old. It is cherished by the media, the industry and the general public. Up until the seventies it was the industry itself that, thru self regulation and private courts, upheld a certain standard in regards to marketing. The lack of identification of advertising was not conside

This paper explores whether financial deepening that occurred in the Western Balkans during the past decades had a significant impact on economic growth. We take into account different measures of financial deepening and estimate their impact on economic growth using panel data for seven countries over a period of thirty years. Our findings differ from expectations that financial deepening acceler

In 2012, The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision decided to change the standard risk measure from the well-known Value-at-Risk (VaR) to Expected Shortfal (ES). The committee believes that the new standard risk measure could offer more benefit, aside from just overcoming the major weaknesses of VaR like incoherency and inability to capture tail risk. In this study, best models for VaR and ES are

The purpose of this paper is to study how the mindset of an international service firm evolves over time and to research the relationship between internationalization actions and entrepreneurial orientations. The international entrepreneurial orientation of a firm consists of eight dimensions, five of which derive from the Entrepreneurial Orientation concept, and three more are suggested as additi

Today’s work environment is currently undergoing radical changes and although the aware-ness of social collaboration is growing within organizations, they still struggle with the digital transformation and thereby with the integration of Enterprise Social Network (ESN). Our study aims to investigate the role of ESN within the todays’ organizations. Specifically, it intends to build on previous res

How do English speaking women from USA and England who live in Sweden relate to nationality and inclusion and how is this affected by ethnicity, age, sex, and language skills? The aim of the study is to present an immigrant group often overlooked in Swedish research and immigration debates. With an intersectionality perspective and theories about nationality and in/exclusion the material which con

This paper examines the impact of foreign capital inflows on economic growth and self-employment in Ethiopia; using self-employment as a proxy for poverty reduction. It employs a descriptive statistics in the first part and Granger causality Wald tests in the second part. In the first part, 1961 to 2010, the findings indicate that there is an increase in the average growth rates, especially in the

Title: Does the CEO manipulate earnings prior to routine departure? – An empirical study about earnings management prior to routine CEO departure on Swedish firms listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm Seminar Date: 2015-05-25 Course: FEKN90: Degree project, Master of Science in Business and Economics (30 University credit points) Authors: Biljana Colevska and Ida Lindgren Advisor: Per Magnus Andersso

Business Intelligence (BI) är ett ämne som är högst aktuellt inom verksamheter idag. Detta eftersom BI möjliggör stöd för beslutstaganden inom verksamheter vilket leder till bättre effektivitet samt snabbare svar på affärsfrågor. För att hanteringen av ett BI-initiativ ska lyckas har vi i denna studie sett att det är viktigt att ha en tydligt Governance-strategi. Vi kan dra slutsatsen att BI Gover

Syfte: Studien ämnar undersöka ifall procent korrekt skattade kreditbetyg kan påvisas vara högre än vad tidigare forskning fastställt vid en branschspecifik undersökning av teknologibranschen samt allmännyttiga företag. Studien ämnar även, i samma kontext, undersöka om procent korrekt skattade kreditbetyg visar sig vara högre vid dessa två separata branschspecifika undersökningar än vid en undersöPurpose: The study aims to investigate if the percent correctly predicted credit ratings can be shown to be higher than previous research has established with an industry-specific survey of technology and utility companies. The study also aims to, in the same context, examine if the percent correctly predicted credit ratings proves to be higher in the these two separate industry-specific than in a

In order to assist developed countries in reaching their emission reduction targets, and to help developing countries onto a sustainable path of development, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change established a market for credits generated from emission reductions. However, since its conception, a majority of the projects implemented have gone to emerging economies such as China

Secondary packaging solutions presently used to package food goods in e-commerce supply chain are either taken from old supply chains, or sub-optimally developed in a non-holistic manner. Due to the increase use of the Internet in Europe to perform online food purchases, secondary packaging must be adapted to meet these new needs. Therefore, a secondary packaging solution for a Dutch e-grocer was

Leadership is often proposed as a key solution for social change, although the actual meaning remains unclear. By studying leadership in the context of Indian feminist NGOs’ hybridity, situated in-between Western structures and the values of the Indian Women’s Movement, I intended to deepen our understanding of the lived meaning of leadership and followership, beyond its buzzword character. Throug

Attempts to promote women’s rights to land in Sub-Saharan Africa have attracted attention in both academia and from an international development perspective. Female Farmers (FFs) in Bombali district in northern Sierra Leone gain access to farmland through male heritages under customary practices. This makes them dependent on maintaining connections with male lineages in order to gain rights to lan