Essays about: "regional disparities"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 53 essays containing the words regional disparities.
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21. Agricultural Agglomeration Infrastructure and Agricultural market integration for emergent farmers
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis seeks to explain constraining effects of distance to markets on agricultural smallholder’s ability to commercialise, using Zambia as a case. Despite a growing consensus that inaccessible markets constrain the development of broad-based agricultural growth, creating socio-economic regional disparities, the exact nature by which distance and market access interact with agricultural producers remains under-examined. READ MORE
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22. Breaking bread across borders: a case study on the efficiency of the interregional educational network between France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : Cross-border cooperation is growing mostly thanks to incentives in the form of funding under the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF) and its Interreg programme also called European Territorial Cooperation (ETC). This funding and support under EU cohesion policy, aims at reducing the economic, social and territorial disparities between the EU regions rather than between EU countries. READ MORE
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23. Regime Legitimacy in Troubled Waters: To What Extent Does Inequality Influence Trust in Political Institutions in Thailand (2002-2016)?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudierAbstract : Thailand ranks not only among the world’s most unequal societies but is also a unique case regarding political instability. Along many recent legitimacy crises, contributing to the country’s instability, it turned out that Thailand mostly lacks specific support for regime institutions, as diffuse support for the national community is rather stable. READ MORE
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24. Does trade integration in Global Value Chains go hand in hand with anti-globalization sentiments? A regional analysis of the Brexit referendum
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Globalization has intensified interdependencies between countries, generating both winners and losers from trade in Global Value Chains. While economic theory predicts a net welfare gain from international trade on the aggregate level of an economy, geographical differences on the regional level and the need for territorial redistribution policies have been neglected, causing political backlashes. READ MORE
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25. The Matching Process and Regional Disparities. An Efficiency Analysis of the Swedish Labour Market.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This thesis investigates the matching process between unemployed and unfilled vacancies in Swedish regional labour markets. Using a stochastic production frontier analysis, we are able to study differences in matching efficiency between regions and changes in overall matching efficiency over time. READ MORE