Essays about: "Bad Governance"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 23 essays containing the words Bad Governance.

  1. 11. Heading towards the Tipping Point? A Swedish study on tax-avoiding activities and future stock crash risk

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Sorena Amini; Kristoffer Ottosson; [2017]
    Keywords : Agency Theory; Tax Avoidance; Crash Risk; OMXS30;

    Abstract : Using a sample consisting of Sweden's most traded stocks for the period 1999-2015, this paper provides robust evidence that long-run corporate tax avoidance increases the risk of future firm-specific stock price crashes. The findings are consistent with the agency view that the complex and opaque characteristics of tax-avoiding activities provide managers with a powerful toolkit for covering and rationalising opportunistic behaviour. READ MORE

  3. 12. A Global Governance Shift in Development : A study on how transnational corporation´s CSR initiative can address Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining and how that can facilitate development

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Sophie Runesson; [2016]
    Keywords : transnational corporations; freedom of association; collective bargaining; global governance; development; poverty; transnationella företag; föreningsfrihet; kollektivavtal; global styrning; utveckling; fattigdom;

    Abstract : Through globalization non-state actors including transnational corporations (TNC), have taken on a more important global governance role from the nation state, where they through their CSR initiatives, impact social issues surrounding development. There are however conflicting views whether CSR could contribute to development in the society. READ MORE

  4. 13. Voodoo Child

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Joel Arvidsson; [2016]
    Keywords : Haiti; Dominican Republic; Poverty Trap; Economic Growth; Bad Governance; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In this paper I examine the reasons on why some poor countries seem to achieve economic growth, while some others do not. Can we decide which country that will succeed beforehand, or is it simply a matter of policy? I take my starting point in the economist Jeffrey D. READ MORE

  5. 14. Hungering for Governance. The Role of Quality of Government in Access to Food.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Frida Andersson; [2015-01-27]
    Keywords : quality of government; corruption; democracy; food security; access to food; prevalence of undernourishment;

    Abstract : Over the last years, political science scholars have increasingly questioned the role of democracy in producing human welfare and public goods provision, as many democracies tend to fail in these aspects. In attempts to track down the causes behind these failures, scholars have lifted the issue of bad governance as a central factor. READ MORE

  6. 15. Developing UCAF, an administrative functionality for the U-Call IVR reporting system

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för datavetenskap (DV)

    Author : Asreen Rostami; [2014]
    Keywords : ICT4D; IVR; Semantic Tagging; VoIP Drupal; UCAF; U-Call;

    Abstract : Mobile phones and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) applications are being progressively used in developing countries to collect voice-based reports about bad governance or poor public service delivery, reported by citizens. Such systems (e.g. Avaaj Otalo, Foroba Blon, etc. READ MORE