Essays about: "millennium development goals"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 77 essays containing the words millennium development goals.

  1. 11. Women's Empowerment - A discourse analysis of the women's empowerment concept in UN Women

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies

    Author : Linn Engvall; [2018]
    Keywords : Empowerment; UN Women; discourse analysis; Laclau and Mouffe; postcolonialism; poststructuralism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The concept of women’s empowerment is subject to much debate within the development field. This thesis seeks to uncover the meaning of the concept by examining the prevailing discourse of women’s empowerment within UN Women. READ MORE

  3. 12. Determinants of under-5 mortality in Uganda: an econometric analysis

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Author : Johanna Stenström Johansson; [2016-08-25]
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    Abstract : Infant and child mortality rates are among the most important indicators of child health, nutrition, implementation of key survival interventions, and the overall social and economic development of a population. Economics include the study of child health and mortality for various more or less direct reasons: The health and productivity of adults is influenced by their health as children, and there may be an associated effect on the development of countries and economic growth. READ MORE

  4. 13. Preserving the Colonial Other : A postcolonial discourse analysis of the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Rafaella Gärde; [2016]
    Keywords : Colonialism; Coloniality; Post Colonialism; Development; Post Development; Colonial Discourses; Orientalism; Otherness; Knowledge Discourses; Millennium Development Goals; Sustainable Development Goals;

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  5. 14. “Now we are becoming partners” Implementing Ecological Sanitation in rural Tanzania- With an action research approach

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Hanna Grimstedt Ånestrand; [2015]
    Keywords : Sustainable development; Action research; Ecological Sanitation; Millennium Development Goals; Sustainable Development Goals; Development aid;

    Abstract : Poor sanitation is a huge problem in third world countries today; every year 1,5 million children die due to diarrheal diseases caused by poor sanitation. International policies such as The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which will be replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015, have been set by the international community as tools to decrease the poverty in the world today, and problems that emerged from it such as poor sanitation. READ MORE

  6. 15. Real learning or just school for all? : Discrepancies between enrolment numbers and learning results in India

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS); Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Ronja Bäckström; Jennifer Keusch Duvsjö; [2015]
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    Abstract : As the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, are coming closer to the target year of 2015, this study joins the ongoing debate about the achieved results with a focus on India. While India has seen great improvements concerning the second MDG, which is for all children to enrol and complete primary education, the country has for the past years been facing a challenge of decreasing learning results. READ MORE