Essays about: "global Income Inequality"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 25 essays containing the words global Income Inequality.

  1. 21. Inequality and Poverty Reduction. An analysis and comparison of World Bank projects implementing Microcredits and Conditional Cash Transfers in Bangladesh.

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

    Author : Claudia Simone Mallschützke; [2015]
    Keywords : inequality; conditional cash transfers; microcredit; Bangladesh; World Bank; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) and microcredits are popular within the development community as poverty reduction instruments. Amartya Sen has proposed a holistic approach to development, poverty and inequality that does not see an increase in income as the aim of development. READ MORE

  3. 22. Are EPZs potential labour traps for women?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Lovisa Hägglund; [2013]
    Keywords : Comparative advantages; export-oriented growth; globalization; industrialization; foreign investment; labour; gender; inequality; segregation; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Developing countries have since the 1960´s implemented export oriented strategies to benefit their global trade. Export Processing Zones (EPZ) are one of the most established trade instruments. Through time the zones have developed into more complex industries. READ MORE

  4. 23. Remittances and Inequality - a Case Study of Albania

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Louise Petersen; [2012]
    Keywords : remittances inequality migration Albania; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The importance of migrants' remittance transfers in global capital flows is steadily growing. A large body of literature has been dedicated to the study of remittances, its underlying causes, and its effects on development in receiving countries. READ MORE

  5. 24. Struggle and Development : Approaching gender bias in practical international development work

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Samhällsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Anna-Maria Lind; [2007]
    Keywords : Gender; International Development; Informal Sector; Women Empowerment;

    Abstract : Since the Beijing Conference on women in 1995 ‘gender-mainstreaming’ has been the new buzz word within the international development regime. Gender equality is increasingly believed to be a major determinant for socioeconomic development in the Global South. READ MORE

  6. 25. Is the flat tax working in the Baltic countries?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Dag Lyberg; [2006]
    Keywords : investment; economic growth; flat tax; Eastern Europe; Economics; econometrics; economic theory; economic systems; economic policy; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The flat tax rate is increasingly under scrutiny in West European countries as a model for taxation. Progressive taxation might be deemed as unsatisfactory to attract investment in the 21st century in a world of more global competition. READ MORE