Essays about: "budget austerity"

Found 5 essays containing the words budget austerity.

  1. 1. Does Populism Influence Economic Policy Making? The cases of Greece and Portugal

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Moa Jonsson Lundqvist; Hanna Lindahl; [2023]
    Keywords : Portugal; Greece; Populism; Economic Policies; Austerity; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The Euro Crisis occurred in several European countries due to high government debt and institutional failures in 2008, leaving many unable to pay their public debts or maintain their budget deficits. During the crisis, a group of three institutions known as the Troika, played a crucial role when offering financial assistance to countries in need of a bailout. READ MORE

  3. 2. Swedish generation Z students as sustainable grocery shoppers and their consumer decision making

    University essay from

    Author : Hanna Björnler; Amour Wamaitha; Douglas Falk; [2022]
    Keywords : Sustainable groceries; Consumer decision making; Gen Z; students; budget austerity;

    Abstract : Background: Macroenvironmental effects are causing change in consumers decision making. These changes can affect the consumers choice of groceries, hence also the purchasing of sustainable groceries. READ MORE

  4. 3. A Curse and a Blessing: A study of the role of financial control in a growing public sector organization

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

    Author : Gustav Möller; Christoffer Begander; [2022]
    Keywords : Public Sector Accounting Research; NPM; Capability Growth; Financial Control;

    Abstract : This qualitative paper examines the role of financial control in the Swedish Armed Forces in relation to the recently initiated growth journey. The core aim is to explore how financial control shapes the ability to grow in order to yield understanding of the challenges that organizational actors in the public sector face after decades characterized by budget cuts, reduced public expenditure and economic austerity. READ MORE

  5. 4. AUSTERITY AND THE SWEDISH POLITICAL ECONOMY: A Case Study on the Rise of the Swedish Consolidation State

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Max Popovski; [2021-06-29]
    Keywords : democracy; neoliberalism; Sweden; austerity; consolidation state; fiscal consolidation; fiscal framework; globalisation;

    Abstract : Following the 1990-1994 crisis, the Swedish government embarked on an ambitious austerity programme that transformed the Swedish polity beyond recognition. This has given rise to a ‘consolidation state’ that operates based on a strict austerity regime combined with a sacrosanct commitment to attain budget surpluses and never default on its creditors. READ MORE

  6. 5. Financialization and human rights abuses provoked by business: the case of Samarco disaster in Brazil

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Rebeca Borges Machado Azevedo Leitão; [2017-09-13]
    Keywords : shareholder value; market discipline; mining industry; legally-binding instrument; Mariana;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to explore the implications of the financialization process on human rights compliance by business, based on an analysis of the Samarco case, in Brazil. In 2015, Samarco Company’s tailing dam collapsed and killed people, destroyed the surroundings and polluted 650 km of a river basin’s waters. READ MORE