Essays about: "inflation and poverty"

Found 5 essays containing the words inflation and poverty.

  1. 1. Energy Poverty : Computing the silent problem of developed countries

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik

    Author : Alfred Larsson; Märta Strømme; Herman Falkenmark; Freja Klucis; [2023]
    Keywords : Energy Poverty;

    Abstract : Energy poverty is a new term in the Swedish context, though it is becoming increasingly more relevant because of inflation and higher prices for electricity. Because research on the matter is scarce in developed countries such as Sweden and similar contexts in the EU, it creates uncertainty whether there is a ‘correct’ way of conducting energy poverty research. READ MORE

  2. 2. The shadow pandemic : a feminist institutional perspective on civil society's work on gender-based violence in post COVID -19 South Africa

    University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för mänskliga rättigheter och demokrati

    Author : Louise Lindfors; [2023]
    Keywords : Gender-based violence; institutional feminism; CSO civil society organizations; grassroot activists; South Africa;

    Abstract : This field study is a thematic and feminist institutionalist analysis on how the civil society and grassroot activists in Gauteng province, South Africa, has been affected and mitigated during and after the COVID -19 pandemic in their work against gender-based violence. The data consist of five semi structured interviews with primary sources, divided in the two sub-groups of activists and formal NGO representatives. READ MORE

  3. 3. Does economic freedom affect the growth rate? : Evidence from middle-income countries

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Nationalekonomi

    Author : Karolina Edlund; [2017]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Despite half a century of aid programs, many countries have not shown a sufficient degree of economic development, leaving their population in poverty. The varying level of productivity has contributed to these dissimilarities and many economists argue that the degree of freedom experienced by citizens is the underlying source of differences in productivity, as it influences the freedom to perform economic activity. READ MORE

  4. 4. trade and poverty: the case of Iran

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Seyed Hamzeh Hosseini Pozveh; [2010]
    Keywords : Export; Import; Johansen cointegration test and vector error correction model; Welfare; Poverty; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Abstract: Using the vector error correction model, the relationship between trade and poverty is examined in this thesis. We have run eight models for two measures of poverty and mean per capita expenditure for six groups of expenditure in Iran from 1984 to 2005. READ MORE

  5. 5. Management Control Systems and Entrepreneurship in Lusaka - A Minor Field Study in Zambia

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Johan Mjörnvik; Marie Sanfridsson; [2008-12-30T10:38:16Z]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Problem Discussion: Today the pace of changes is increasing dramatically in the society and because of this entrepreneurship is becoming more important for the society’s development. African entrepreneurs experience serious difficulties in developing and sustaining effective organizational arrangements and this is an obstacle to entrepreneurial development and the balance needed for survival, growth and competitiveness. READ MORE