In the Philippines, the post-Marcos era has seen little decrease in violence against journalists. The onset of democratization in 1986 gave way for more press freedom, yet the 78 journalists killed since question the notion of a functioning free press in a nation that prides itself as being the “freest” in the Southeast Asian region. The study posits that the condition of the Philippines as a weak

This thesis was dedicated to explain mainland China’s fast economic growth and high inequality from the approach of economic transition and to answer the question why economic transitions contrast in mainland China and Taiwan. Combined with both qualitative and quantitative strategies, and based on secondary data as well as official statistics, the thesis chose comparative study as research design

A raised awareness around climate change has been followed by different initiatives and targets being set around the world to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Pressure is not only being placed on international and national bodies but also on local communities, industries, businesses and even individual households. The most prominent international action is the funding of the United Nations Frame

This thesis discusses the expression of sexuality and lifestyle among Singaporean homosexual men in the context of Singapore and Bangkok respectively. The objective of this research was not to generalize the pattern of the expression but to provide examples from individual cases. There were in total 13 Singaporean and Thai interviewees included in this research. These interviewees consisted of 7 S

The aim of the study is to evaluate a modified form of cognitive behavioural group therapy (CBGT). The treatment is called Tisdagsgruppen and was started by a private care institute, HjärnHälsan in Lund in August 2008. The method of the study was qualitative and seven semi-structured interviews were conducted. The interviews were analyzed in accordance with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

The main purpose of our essay was to study how children legal rights to both parents are practised in the social work. We wanted to find out the consequences of a forced and non practised contact rights. We have also looked in to which opportunities and difficulties that may appear in the social work with an aim to reach a well-function contact between a child and a parent. Our essay is presented

The emerging focus on sexuality in development thinking has provided an opening for sex work issues to be included in the development framework. Unequal gender power relations restrict women’s employment opportunities and sex work becomes the best option out of very little choices. However, sexuality norms and beliefs have stratified sex work as ‘unacceptable’. As a result, sex workers face a wide

This thesis investigates how social relations influence cereal flows between pastoral households and between pastoralists and traders in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia. By examining this case through a narrative approach, I clarify how cereal exchanges are embedded in social capacity. Through interviews and focus groups with pastoral and agropastoral households and interviews with cereal traders, I present s

Agriculture Development Led Industrialization (ADLI) has been government development strategy since 1990s; and its objective was to develop a market oriented modernized agriculture sector, with the development of the industry to follow this as a next development stage using the raw material from agriculture. The strategies for the agriculture development have focussed on extension and research ser

The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the possibility of application of the cluster based rural development approach in Armenia to promote its structural transformation. Case study was selected as a research methodology, and both qualitative and quantitative methods were employed. Analysis of the key findings from the ‘field’, i.e. - the potential cluster, shows that rural households pract

Syftet med uppsatsen är att testa om Hyman P. Minskys teori om finansiell instabilitet och uppkomsten av finansiella kriser är relevant för, och applicerbar på, moderna ekonomiska förhållanden. Metod: Studien är framför allt av kvalitativ metod, och tar hjälp av tidigare forskning och olika nyckeltal i analysen av de finansiella kriserna. Valet av kriser har avgränsats till den svenska fastighetsk

The thesis investigates and analyzes the possibility for Max entering to China’s fast food market. And the focal mode of the entry here would be franchising. The core conceptual framework of the thesis is based on Decision-Making Model for International Franchising of Mahmood A. Khan. While in order to make the framework fit the purpose of this study much better, Mahmood’s model was developed and

Syfte: Att undersöka hur frikopplingen mellan redovisning och beskattning påverkade Norge och att utreda ifall några lärdomar kan dras vid en eventuell frikoppling i Sverige. Metod: Studien tillämpar en induktiv ansats och en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod. Teoretiskt perspektiv: Det teoretiska perspektivet utgörs av en utvecklingsmodell av sambandet mellan redovisning och beskattning samt redovisn

Sammanfattning Titel: Har ägarna tappat rösten? Ägarnas roll i utformningen av bankernas belöningssystem. Seminariedatum: 2009-06-04 Ämne/Kurs: FEKK01, examensarbete kandidatnivå, 15 högskolepoäng Författare: Kristoffer Elshult, Jona Kumbaro och Emelie Lönnblad Handledare: Matts Kärreman Nyckelord: Belöningssystem, Bolagsstyrning, Ägarkategorier, SEB, Swedbank, Handelsbanken och Nordea. Syfte: Syf

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