Essays about: "Administrative corruption"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 19 essays containing the words Administrative corruption.
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11. Business on the Border of Breakdown : An Interdisciplinary Study of Entrepreneurs inKabul, Afghanistan
University essay from Högskolan i HalmstadAbstract : Afghanistan has experienced a civil war since the last three decades that has causedenormous damages to infrastructure and incredible human suffering. Insecurity is not only fromterrorists, many Afghans rank political gridlock and deeply rooted corruption as worse. A modelby Bullough et al. READ MORE
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12. The Effect of Corruption on Firm Performance. A case study of Brazil
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This thesis investigates the effect of corruption on firm performance for enterprises in Brazil. Corruption is measured by the amount of bribe payments and corporate performance by the amount of total annual firm sales. For this specific study I used the Enterprise Survey data set which was published by the World Bank in 2009. READ MORE
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13. Medical Patent Protection Impacts on Access to Medicine in China
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Along with the interrelation between medical patent right, the generics impacts and the right to access to medicines, which as one of intersection issues between Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Human Rights (HR), has drawn more and more attention under the international society, the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health has reaffirmed the flexibilities of the Agreement on the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) member states in circumventing patent rights for better access to essential medicines in 2001. Considering the TRIPS flexibilities importance on promoting access to medicines in the most developing and the least developed countries, the thesis basically checks how medical patent rights impact on the access to medicines in China and how China has utilized the TRIPS flexibilities in recent years. READ MORE
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14. Exploring the Trend of Near-Sourcing to Eastern-Europe: the Case of Swedish Manufacturers
University essay from IHH, Centre of Logistics and Supply Chain ManagementAbstract : Outsourcing has been a way for firms to reduce their cost of production and enabling them to focus on their core competencies for decades. As the total costs for manufacturing in China – the most prominent outsourcing location, are increasing due to unfavourable mar-ket changes, which in turn leads to loss of the competitive advantage, European companies are more and more often realizing and pursuing the benefits of ‘near-sourcing’ their manu-facturing operations to Eastern European countries. READ MORE
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15. Authoritarian Foundations The Mechanisms of Support Behind Authoritarian Takeovers
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : In this study the author builds on previous materials and a statistical comparison between states with successful coup attempts and states without successful coups in an attempt to isolate a series of factors that may have an effect on the outcome of an attempted coup d'état. The isolated factors are then tested on the cases of Gambia, Ghana, Ecuador and Thailand. READ MORE
