Essays about: "Asean"

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  1. 21. FDI and CO2 Emissions in the ASEAN-5 and India

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Namé Martinez; [2019]
    Keywords : FDI; CO2 emissions; pollution haven hypothesis; Southeast Asia; Toda and Yamamoto causality; structural breaks; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : With the tremendous increases in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the last four decades arose the problem of a possible relationship between FDI and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Scholars have hypothesized that international companies invest in countries with lax environmental regulations to escape high production cost, we call this the pollution haven hypothesis. READ MORE

  3. 22. EU FIRST? Examining the Promotion of Sustainable Development in EU Trade Agreements with Singapore and Vietnam

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Julia Setterberg; [2018-06-21]
    Keywords : European Union; trade policy; ASEAN; Vietnam; Singapore; sustainable development; multilateralism; normative power; self-interested actor; norm promotion; trade agreements; bilateral;

    Abstract : This dissertation aims to determine why the EU is promoting sustainable development as a value in its Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), but also to examine what kind of an actor the EU is in international relations. Since the 2015 Trade for All strategy, the EU has included sustainable development as a key objective in its trade strategy and one way of doing this is by adding a Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapter in its FTAs. READ MORE

  4. 23. Refugee Protection in Time of Mass Influx: A Case Study on Southeast Asian Countries and their Intergovernmental Arrangements

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Sirawit Pradiskool; [2018]
    Keywords : Refugees; Mass Influx Crisis; International Refugee Protection; Temporary Protection; Southeast Asia; ASEAN; UNHCR; International Organization; International law; International Human Rights Law; International Refugee Law.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) describes a situation where the number of people crossing the international border has suddenly increased in which neither if exist, the normal individual asylum procedures nor the response capacity of individual State are able to deal with the assessment of such large numbers as a 'mass refugee influx.' In the international law context, the receiving State has an obligation to provide a ‘temporary refuge’ for any person participating in the large-scale movement. READ MORE

  5. 24. Expert perceptions on renewable energy implementation in ASEAN

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Nathalie Zauels; Oana Maries; [2018]
    Keywords : Sustainability development; Renewable energy; cross-sector collaboration;

    Abstract : The world today is built on energy. Every process, whether industrial or civil, from the moment one awakes in the morning all throughout the day and into the late night, is fuelled by energy. There is an energy consumption going on twentyfour hours, every day of the year (IEA, 2017). READ MORE

  6. 25. The Right to Social Security in Cambodia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten; Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Rathana Ken; [2018]
    Keywords : Right to Social Security in Cambodia; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Given that the social security has not been extended to vast majority of Cambodia’s population, this thesis is initiated to analyze whether the implementation of the Right to Social Security is effective and in line with the international social security instruments. In doing so, the analysis is conducted by examining Cambodia’s national legal framework and polices concerning the implementation of the Right to Social Security. READ MORE