Essays about: "Government size"
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36. A greener peace: Ensuring environmental sustainability in post-conflict Colombia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutetAbstract : Despite its small size Colombia hosts 10% of the planet’s biodiversity, in the over 53% of its territory which is covered by different types of tropical and Andean forests. However, decades of war have had devastating effects on the country’s environment, which is threatened with deforestation for the clearing for agriculture areas, mostly for illegal crops; as well as on its population, which has seen forced displacement of an estimated 8. READ MORE
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37. Conjunctive Operation of Hydro and Solar PV Power with Pumped Storage at Kafue Gorge Power Station (Zambia)
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/EnergiteknikAbstract : This report covers the work carried out to redesign the two existing conventional hydro power stations in Zambia on the Kafue river into the pumped storage facility with solar photovoltaic power so that security of supply and water conservation is achieved to reduce the power deficits during the dry and drought periods. The two stations are Kafue gorge upper power station (KGUPS) and Kafue gorge lower power station (KGLPS) with an installed capacity of 990 MW and 750 MW respectively. READ MORE
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38. Industry 4.0 and Swedish SMEs: An assessment of current maturity level and challenges
University essay from Lunds universitet/ProduktionsekonomiAbstract : Background In a world where the rate of technological change is constantly accelerating, it is getting more and more important for companies to adopt new technologies and processes to stay competitive. Most recently, the concept of Industry 4. READ MORE
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39. Profit-driven vs. purpose-driven? A study of the prevalence and implications of foundation ownership
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : Examining the Stockholm Stock Exchange between 1999-2017, we find that foundation-owned firms on average stand for about 50 percent of the total market capitalization and 15 percent of the total number of firms, illustrating the large prevalence and implications foundations have on the Swedish business society. We identify four different categories of foundations; Family, Non-Family, Employee, and Government foundations, where the first is the largest regarding both total firms and total market capitalization. READ MORE
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40. Policy responses to capital inflows: in emerging Asia and Europe markets
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : This thesis identified large net private capital inflows to emerging markets over last three decades and studied four policy responses towards these inflows, the policies are exchange rate policy, sterilization policy, fiscal policy and capital controls on inflows and outflows. Regions show different pattern in policy evolvement over time, emerging Asia keeps high intervention in exchange rate and high control over capital throughout time, emerging Europe originally had high foreign exchange market intervention and capital control but loosened them over the early 2000s, Nordic countries as sample for small and open advanced economy, remained their autonomy in exchange intervention, and have the lowest growth in government spending and lowest capital control. READ MORE