Essays about: "Stagnation"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 100 essays containing the word Stagnation.
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11. The Nature of Digital Extension Services in the Developing World
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : The rapid diffusion of mobile phones and the internet in Kenya is hoped to be an effective solution to meeting the crucial information needs of smallholder farmers to improve their economic and environmental resilience. This thesis conducts a case study based on interviews with actors who provide digital agricultural extension services to farmers in Kenya to assess the Agricultural Innovation System (AIS), and its features and current trajectory. READ MORE
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12. The Problematisation of Work-Life Balance within the EU, Austria, and Sweden
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationerAbstract : In this Master’s thesis it is asked how work-life balance is problematised within the EU, Austria, and Sweden, aiming to understand how certain representations of the work-life balance problem might contribute to the stagnation or progress of tackling gender equality matters. The research question is answered through the analysis of an EU Directive as well as Austrian and Swedish policies and debates applying a post-structural feminist perspective and the What’s the problem represented to be? approach. READ MORE
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13. Unreal Investments : How cheap credit is used when rates are already low, and opportunities for financial investments are present.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This study explores the possibility that cheep credit, provided to firms when profit opportunities on real investments are low, and when opportunities of financial investments are present, will loose some of it’s stimulus effect due to a crowding out effect of financial investments on real investments. Analyzing the changes in debt, and it’s channels of use during the recession of the covid19 pandemic, between firms with a history of stock buybacks, and firms without such a history, the study finds a significantly higher increase in debt for firms with a history of doing stock buybacks. READ MORE
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14. Presence of Streptococcus Mutans in Mother and Child and Occurrence of Dental Caries: A Clinical Study
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för odontologiAbstract : Background: Caries continue to be a risk to children’s health and a stagnation of improvement has been seen the last years with 5% of Swedish three year olds being caries active. Earlier studies show a connection between presence of Streptococcus mutans in saliva and caries prevalence, and that Streptococcus mutans can be transmitted from mother to child. READ MORE
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15. Narratives of recent migration: Young, well-educated Croats in Ireland
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : In July 2013 Croatia has become the latest member state to join the European Union. Access to this single European area, in particular, to economically well-developed countries with a more robust labor market and a higher standard of living than Croatia resulted in intensification of emigration from Croatia. READ MORE
