Essays about: "India in 2015"

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1. 21. Why put that Seedling in the Ground - A Case Study of the TIST Tree Planting Program in Tamil Nadu India

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

   Author : Calle Malmström; [2015-02-20]
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   Abstract : This study examines a reforestation program, TIST (The International Small Group and Tree Planting Program), and its effects on farmer's tree planting behavior. TIST is funded by selling carbon credits on the Voluntary Carbon Market and derive the carbon credits from farmers who plant trees in their own lands. READ MORE

3. 22. The power of parents´aspiration - A project evaluation in rural India

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

   Author : Alexandra Sundberg; [2015-02-06]
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   Abstract : The objective of this thesis is whether women accessing education and credit affect her and her husband’s aspiration concerning their child’s future age of marriage, preferred occupation and educational attainment. By measuring the effect of a Self Help Group (SHG) project in Tamil Nadu, India, it is shown that microfinance+ does affect fathers’ aspiration for their children’s future age of marriage. READ MORE

4. 23. Jain Vegetarian Laws in the City of Palitana : Indefensible Legal Enforcement or Praiseworthy Progressive Moralism?

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Centrum för tillämpad etik; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Ruben van Popering; [2015]
   Keywords : Ahimsa; Animal Rights; Anthropocentrism; Ecology; Jainism; Minority Rights; Moral Vegetarianism; Palitana; Philosophy of Law; Religious Rights;

   Abstract : The city of Palitana, India, has become the first region known to legally install de facto meat bans, essentially making Palitana a vegetarian city by law. These legal steps seem to be the direct result of social pressure put on local legislators in the form of a mass hunger strike performed by local Jain monks. READ MORE

5. 24. A Comparative Risk Analysis of Bangladesh in the SAARC Region: A Study of Value at Risk

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Md Tazul Islam; [2015]
   Keywords : Value at Risk VaR ; Incremental Value at Risk IVaR ; Components Value at Risk CVaR ; Bangladesh; DSE; SAARC; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to find out how much more risky the stock market of Bangladesh is compared to the other South Asian Association of Regional cooperation (SAARC) countries and investigate the role of it in this region from risk perspective. Bangladesh is one of the potential markets for investment among the eight countries of SAARC. READ MORE

6. 25. The gut microbial composition in humans in hot occupational settings and the effects of drinking buttermilk

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Livsmedelsteknik och nutrition (master)

   Author : Danping Song; [2015]
   Keywords : Gut microbiota; Buttermilk; heat stress; livsmedelsteknologi; food technology; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : The principal aims of the present study were to examine the latent heat stress relieving capacity of drinking buttermilk and to observe the human gut microbiota in hot occupational condition. A human crossover intervention study with 12 volunteers was studied, each of them performed 3 hours of physical work in a heat chamber. READ MORE