Essays about: "core periphery"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 48 essays containing the words core periphery.

  1. 21. SPATIAL & TRANSPORTATION MISMATCH IN SWEDEN, 2015 : EFFECTS OF MISMATCH & EASEMENT OF TRANSPORTATION IN ÖRNSKÖLDSVIK & SUNDSVALL

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Kulturgeografi

    Author : Oscar Uneklint; [2018]
    Keywords : Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis; Transportation Mismatch; Public Transportation Performance; Network analysis; Multicriteria analysis.; Rumslig Missmatchning; Transport Missmatchning; Kollektivtrafikens Prestanda; Nätverksanalys; Multikriterieanalys.;

    Abstract : SPATIAL & TRANSPORTATION MISMATCH IN SWEDEN, 2015: EFFECTS OF MISMATCH & EASEMENT OF TRANSPORTATION IN ÖRNSKÖLDSVIK & SUNDSVALL (Master thesis by Oscar Uneklint, 2018). The paper firstly aims to investigate how spatial and transportation workplace-access influences employment outcomes in the cities and municipalities of Sundsvall & Örnsköldsvik, located at the coastal north of Sweden. READ MORE

  3. 22. The Violence We Consume - Embodied Violence in Nicaraguan Coffee Production

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Inga Prämassing; [2017]
    Keywords : Violence; Ecologically unequal exchange; World-system; Coloniality of power; Coffee; Nicaragua; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Based on ethnographic fieldwork with corteros in northern Nicaragua, this grounded theory study introduces two new concepts, the main concept embodied violence and related to it violence displacement. These concepts link the worker on the coffee plantation in the periphery with the final consumer in the core, arguing that the latter consumes embodied violence that the former had to suffer during the production process. READ MORE

  4. 23. Product space, unrelated diversification, and economic development

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Junchen Li; [2016]
    Keywords : Product space; diversification; unrelated variety; economic development; Evolutionary Economic Geography; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Product Space methodology introduced in 2007 initiated a new perspective in diversification studies. It finds out stylized facts that generally developed countries mainly export core product (metal, machinery, chemicals), while developing countries mainly export periphery products (agriculture, primary goods). READ MORE

  5. 24. Capital flows and non-performing loans: An empirical study of the European debt crisis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Erling Borén; [2016]
    Keywords : Capital imports; debt flows; non-performing loans; the EU; GMM.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This study investigates the relationship between capital imports and non-performing loans (NPLs) in the context of the European debt crisis. The empirical analysis is based on a panel data set covering 22 countries in the European Union (EU) between year 2001 and 2014. READ MORE

  6. 25. Construction of Crises : Climate, Terror and the Eiffel Tower

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Sara Lundstedt; [2016]
    Keywords : Climate change; Terrorism; Image; Ideology; Apparatus; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This work investigates visualizations of two crises; terrorism and climate change. Focus lies on mediated images concerning Paris 2015, where terrorist attacks had an impact on the following UN climate change conference (COP21). The symbol of the Eiffel Tower was used to portrait both issues and will be studied through a semiotic analysis. READ MORE