Essays about: "Master Thesis international economy"

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  1. 26. Flexible Workforce: The Political Economy of the Greek Garment Industry in the Era of Neoliberalism

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Amadeus Canals; [2013]
    Keywords : working conditions; migrant workers; Neoliberalism; flexible accumulation; garment industry; neoliberal fashion; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis set out to explain the emergence of production units that favour harsh working conditions in the garment industry of Athens. A neo-Marxist political economic approach was used in order to trace the causes of this emergence over the last fifty years and explain the transitional period from Fordism to flexible regimes of accumulation. READ MORE

  2. 27. Global health – a change of perception. The role of health in the post-2015 development agenda.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Katrin Emelie Forslund; [2013]
    Keywords : Global health; United Nations; Millennium Development Goals; Post-2015 Development Agenda; Human security; Critical Discourse Analysis.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Health has been a recurring topic on the development agenda during the recent decades. During the 1980ies and 1990ies there was a great focus on the impact of infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. READ MORE

  3. 28. Attracting Foreign Real Estate Investors to the Brazilian Hotel Market

    University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggande

    Author : Alexis Mignonac; [2012]
    Keywords : Real Estate; Hotel; Joint Ventures; Port-Folio;

    Abstract : The last financial and economic crises have revealed the fragility for developed countries, especially European countries, to resist to a major upheaval. This event has affected for a long time their capacity to spur their economy and their attractiveness. READ MORE

  4. 29. Empowerment. A lawful initiative to obtain equality or reversed apartheid

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Hanna Ershammar; [2011-01-21]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : When the African National Congress won the South African election in 1994, the white minority rule ended and a new era of peaceful political, social and economical transformation began. Black Economic Empowerment was, and still is, one of the main pillars of this process, developed and designed especially to overcome the racial, social and economic rift between white and black South Africans left by the apartheid regime. READ MORE

  5. 30. Social Economy-Based Microenterprise as an Alternative Community Development Model- a Case Study in Rural Peru

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Daun Cheong; [2011]
    Keywords : Social Economy; Community Development; Microenterprise; Indigenous development; Cusco; Peru; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the potential of a social economy-based microenterprise model as a new community development tool in the special context of indigenous Quechua communities in rural Peru where their socio-economic realities are substantially different from the modern society. Although, the social economy-based development policies are widely discussed in many Latin American countries, only little attention has been paid to the role of the social economic model in the community development discourse. READ MORE