Den här uppsatsen undersöker vilken effekt mottaget bistånd har på den ekonomiska tillväxten. Detta görs genom en sammanställning över tidigare forskning inom området, samt med hjälp av enklare tester för att undersöka biståndseffektiviteten betingat på olika faktorer. Det visar sig att bistånd är beroende av att det finns en av bistånd oberoende miljö i landet som främjar ekonomisk tillväxt, då b

The purpose of this study was to examine the responsibility for children’s right to education. More precisely the aim was to find out who, in the on-going debate, was presented as being responsible of making sure that children, who have the right and obligation to attend school, actually do so. In my study I did a document analysis of two newspapers, one for teachers; Lärarnas tidning, and one for

This paper is a case-study of river rafting in California. The purpose is to contribute with an anthropological approach to the subject of risktaking within the adventure sport. The significance of the risk factor to identity creation af the rafting guide is examined. Furthermore it is examined, in which way strong character, autority, the stautus as river god/godish and adventure indentity is bei

A qualitative study of family members and spouses experiences regarding the depression and the support One third of the Swedish population has at some point of their lives been afflicted with a depression, and although there are many interventions to be had, a majority of them focus solely on the individual with the depression. Shedding light on how family members and spouses experience the suppo

On the ground of a highly dynamic economic environment, the necessity for time-varying risk measures emerged. Inclusion of higher-order conditional moments in asset pricing models is a very common topic in recent research articles. The present essay was inspired by the seminal work of Harvey and Siddique (1999), who proposed estimation of time-varying skewness and pricing its explanatory power by

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka medarbetarskapet hos personalen på en statlig myndighet i Skåne, både genom att undersöka om det fanns situationsrelaterade skillnader i gruppen som helhet, men även om det fanns skillnader gällande individrelaterade variabler som kön, anställningstid och utbildning. Material om personalens utveckling i medarbetarskapet, stilmönster, samt deras agerande i The aim of this study was to examine employeeship at a government agency in Skåne, both by examining if there were situational differences in the group as a whole, but also if there were differences regarding individually-related variables such as gender, seniority and education. Information about the development of the staff, employee style, and their actions in different situations, employee sty

The structural approach to credit risk modeling has gained a growing attention in both the academics and in the industry. In this dissertation, we outline the basic ideas and structures of the KMV (Merton) model and also explain some related issues before implementing this model. Referring to the KMV model, we use the KMV model to identify the credit risk of listed companies in China. We use real

Purpose: This paper analyzes the connection between the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) and the South Korean stock market. It also focuses on the BDI’s connection to the three biggest shipbuilding companies in the country. Methodology: The paper embarks from an econometric perspective. Data was collected and tested through regression analysis. The approach is quantitative. Result: The result assesses that

The society has gone throw a structural change and with it, the political arena. Today several actors are involved in staging the "political". This pose questions about with what purposes these actors enter the arena and how they use communication as a tool to achieve their goals. The purpose is to describe and explain why, and how, different political actors work with strategic communic

This thesis analyzes how the field of library and information science is constituted in 580 theses written between 2000-2010, by library and information science students at the three Swedish universities Borås, Uppsala and Lund. Furthermore, I investigate how the findings from the three universities differ from each other and how the results as a whole can be understood in relation to libraries an

En detaljstudie av två böcker från Folkrepubliken Kina, Kina kan säga nej (1996) samt Kina är inte glad (2009). Dessa böcker är skrivna av två, delvis överlappande, författargrupper. De består av ett antal argumenterande essäer, i stilen närmar de sig programskrifter, och behandlar teman som har med Kina och Kinas (nya) roll i världen att göra.

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att bidra med en fördjupad förståelse för normerande maskuliniteter i mansdominerade organisationer. Med uppsatsen vill jag också försöka förstå hur normer för maskuliniteter uttrycks samt hur detta kan påverka individen och organisationen Studien är inspirerad av en feministiskt poststrukturalistisk referensram där språk och diskurser har en central betydelse. Insa

En fråga inom mentaliseringsforskningen som fortfarande återstår att bli besvarad är vad det är i samspelet mellan föräldrar och barn som har betydelse för barnets utvecklande av mentaliseringsförmåga. Vidare saknas forskning rörande hur mammas och pappas bidrag samverkar i denna effekt. Följande studie ämnade därför undersöka (a) vilka variabler i samspelet mellan barn och föräldrar som har ett s

Den här uppsatsen försöker svara på frågan om bensinprisförändringar sker asymmetriskt i förhållande till råoljeprisförändringar. Modellen som använts är en så kallad ”error correction model” eller feljusteringsmodell på svenska. Bensin- och råoljepriser är hämtade från Statoil respektive spotpriset på råolja från nordsjön. De huvudsakliga resultaten från uppsatsen är att det finns starka indikati

It is common in the process industry to displace one fluid by another. During the displacement process an unwanted mixing between the two phases is unavoidable and being able to estimate this mixing is of great importance when trying to minimize product losses and improving the quality of the final product. A method for simulating the displacement process using commercial CFD codes was developed a

The Church of Sweden is the largest church in Sweden and has according to its Church Ordinance a diaconal responsibility for everyone who stays in the parish, including students and employees at the universities. It is hard to see that this responsibility is fulfilled. This thesis deals with concerns about the student chaplains in Sweden. I attempt to answer the questions "how do the student

The purpose of this paper is to analyze organization active immigrants' social relationships and how they describe it have changed since they moved to Sweden. We will also reason about possible gender differences. We have used a qualitative approach in which we interviewed nine persons from Iraq who moved to Sweden, five of them are women and four are men. We met our respondents in an organiza