Essays about: "globalization poverty"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 23 essays containing the words globalization poverty.

  1. 16. A Brazilian - Swedish Relationship : How to Establish a Successful International Joint Venture

    University essay from Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET)

    Author : Magnus Dalaryd; Daniel Mayer; [2012]
    Keywords : Joint Venture JV ; International Joint Venture IJV ; Resource Dependency Theory RDT ; Power Distance Index PDI ; Individualism Index IDV ; Masculinity Index MAS ; Uncertainty Avoidance Index UAI ; Small and medium-sized enterprises SME ;

    Abstract : Due to the nature of globalization, new strategies have been designed to break into new markets. Joint Venture is a common strategy to enter new markets and by using a Joint Venture, companies share risks and establish new contacts with local knowledge. Brazil is a market where foreign investors gain more and more interest. READ MORE

  3. 17. The Present Absence - the representation of immigrant women in the Swedish television news

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Hanna Hanski Grünewald; [2012]
    Keywords : representation; women; immigrant women; news; social construction of the news; discourse; feminist media studies; intersectionality; semiotics; globalization; stereotypes; us them; content analysis; constructionist approach; roles;

    Abstract : This study on the representation of immigrant women in the news investigates three questions: How often do immigrant women appear in the news? In what roles are the immigrant women presented and what issues do they speak about? What are the relationships between those involved in the news features? The research has been conducted through the use of content analysis in combination with the qualitative approaches of semiotics and discourse within a framework of the theoretical perspective of intersectionality. Additional theories in the study are considering the global tendencies and the media, the social construction of news, us & them and stereotypes, as well as feminist media studies. READ MORE

  4. 18. LINKING UP THE VALUE CHAIN: Assessing The Inter-Firm Linkages That Make Up The International Global Value Chains Of South African Wine And Its Effect On Pro-Poor Economic Growth

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Marc Falcon Kæraa; [2011]
    Keywords : Global Value Chains; Wine Industry; South Africa; Poverty Reduction; Pro-Poor Growth; Economic Inclusion and Exclusion; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Global value chains are essential to understanding globalization in the nature of export-oriented markets and commodity flows to end-markets. Developing countries have experienced a recent wave of economic structural adjustment and introduced export-based reforms as an approach to pro-poor growth. READ MORE

  5. 19. Aid, Development and Power: Perceptions and Relations in the Gulu Development Community

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Andreas Olsson; [2010]
    Keywords : Uganda; Gulu; Development; Agency; Power; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : International development aid is big business. A flow of funds reaches the Global South each year, creating aid clusters with concentrated implementing development organizations. READ MORE

  6. 20. Techers, Ethics and Globalizaion : an international comparative field study of the perspective of six teachers regarding ethics questions

    University essay from Institutionen för pedagogik

    Author : Linn Härsing; [2008]
    Keywords : teachers; globalization; ethics;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis was to study the view of six teachers, working in three different field areas, on ethics questions and ethics teaching in schools, from a global perspective. My second aim was to analyze whether there was any cooperation between these different field areas or between them and others, in order to improve the ethics teaching in schools. READ MORE