Essays about: "Fredrik Thor"

Found 3 essays containing the words Fredrik Thor.

  1. 1. Grade Leniency and Competition : A study of Swedish Compulsory Level Municipality Schools

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Fredrik Thor; [2020]
    Keywords : School choice; grade inflation; quasi-markets; independent schools; municipalities;

    Abstract : In Sweden, there has been an increased discrepancy between increasing merit ratings and decreasing results in international surveys such as PISA. At the same time, since the 1990s, Sweden has had several reforms that resulted in increased competition, decentralization and trust-based evaluations. READ MORE

  2. 2. What About Poverty? : A multidimensional approach to the poverty focus of Swedish bilateral aid

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Saga Brors; Fredrik Thor; [2017]
    Keywords : Foreign aid; Multidimensional Poverty; Sweden; Policy Evaluation;

    Abstract : This study examines the poverty focus of Swedish bilateral aid and if a multidimensional poverty measure has an effect on the selection of Swedish strategy countries within Sida’s bilateral aid program. Sweden, while generally seen as an altruistic donor, has been noted to allocate resources to relatively richer countries as a result of its wider aim with ODA such as democratic progress and human rights protection. READ MORE

  3. 3. The Enigma of Health and Ill-Health : An Investigation to the Hermeneutic Phenomenological Theory of Homelikeness

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för kommunikation och information

    Author : Haukur Thor Thorvardarson; [2005]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The aim of this project is to introduce and criticize the phenomenological theories of health and ill-health as they are described in Fredrik Svenaeus´PhD thesis The hermeneutics of medicine and the phenomenology of health: steps towards a philosophy of medical practices. Svenaeus was born in 1966 and is an associate professor in the Department for health and society at Linköping University. READ MORE