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This study investigates how the usage of a Kenyan mobile banking service called M-pesa affects women empowerment and if different forms of usage have a significant effect. This is done through the distribution of a questionnaire in Nairobi, Kenya. Through both a OLS and a 2SLS model the answers about a person’s usage of M-pesa is then run against a constructed a women empowerment index and against
Due to the fact that urbanization increases cities are getting denser. With increasing population comes increased demand for goods and services. However, the more transportation of goods within urban areas the more greenhouse gases is emitted and particular matter spread. In addition to this, an increasing amount of heavy vehicles lead to noise pollution and congestion, which could limit a city’s
Title: Insider trading and abnormal return on the Swedish stock market Seminar Date: 2015-05-25 Course: FEKN90 Examensarbete på civilekonomprogrammet (30hp) Authors: Philip Ek and Karin Erlinder Advisor: Rikard Larsson Purpose: By using classifications of different kinds of insiders we wish to en-lighten this area of study with empirical evidence of how insiders on the Swedish Stock Exchange
Utländska studier gör gällande att depersonalisationssyndrom (DPD) är lika vanligt som bipolär sjukdom eller tvångssyndrom. Trots detta betraktas DPD som ett ovanligt tillstånd inom psykiatrin. Det anses inte vara en självständig diagnos, utan endast symtom vid andra störningar. Depersonalisationssyndrom uppges därför av forskare vara en av den moderna tidens mest förbisedda diagnoser. Ingen svensStudies claim that depersonalization disorder (DPD) is just as common as bipolar disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder. DPD is, despite this fact, seen as a rare condition within psychiatry, and not considered to be a diagnosis on its own. Instead it´s just regarded as symptoms that accompanies other psychiatric conditions. For that reason scientists claim that depersonalization disorder is on
This study investigates the effect of China’s exchange rate volatility on imports among China and ASEAN6 countries during 2001 and 2013, using three different measures of exchange rate volatility: volatility of exchange rate against U.S. Dollar, relative exchange rate volatility, and volatility of bilateral exchange rate. The test is performed by using fixed effects method and gravity model. The r
The motivation for the project is to investigate what happens if I add a second Earth in the Solar System and project it forward in time. I add an Earth mass planet (called Earth two) in the same orbit as the Earth on the other side of the Sun (i.e. six months ahead of the original Earth). I then investigate how the perturbation of the second Earth effects the Solar System in the short and the lon
Emeli Magnusson (2015) MVEK03 Natural resources are not infinite and are not renewed in the same rate as we consume them. Recycling outweighs a part of the consumption of resources, and the environmental impacts, resulting from the manufacture of new products. Recycling is an important part of getting a sustainable society, it brings us an opportunity to recycle material resources. This study exa
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) and microcredits are popular within the development community as poverty reduction instruments. Amartya Sen has proposed a holistic approach to development, poverty and inequality that does not see an increase in income as the aim of development. For this author, interpersonal inequality matters for the prospects to live a valuable life. Moreover, the concept of ha
Organizations are looking more and more into BI in order to reduce their costs and increase their revenue as the effective use of BI can be the difference between bankruptcy and survival in times of financial uncertainty. Using BI, the user can detect trends in a quickly manner as well as analyzing the behavior of customers and make changes accordingly. Unlike private organizations, public transpo
Technology contributes to the modern economic development directly and indirectly, and it changes the operating system and working method during the economic transformation. Along with institutional reform and modern economic structural transformation of China, agriculture still plays an ineradicable role in the development of Chinese economy, and it is the cornerstone for countries with large pop
The aim of this study is to explore how care managers work with users/clients with dementia and partners in their ordinary housing. In four interviews care managers in two municipalities describe how they would act from two given scenarios from a perspective of conflict when the user’s partner and the care manager did not agree on the needs of the user. The study also focuses on the general work t
Due to the research scarcity in incentive travel and its environmental sustainability concerns, this thesis decided to concentrate on pro-environment issues related to incentive travel. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the current state of environmental concerns in incentive travel in China and find out how customers perceive pro-environment in an incentive trip. To achieve the research ai
Denna uppsats vid namn Att konsumera bekräftelse – Tinder och dejting i konsumtionssamhället har författats av Amanda Hjärtmyr vid institutionen för kommunikation och medier på Lunds Universitet. Uppsatsen har analyserat och problematiserat Tinder som en nytt dejtingmedium och till vilka anledningar användarna på applikationen använder den. Detta mynnade ut i att användarna främst söker efter bekr
Global Citizenship Education (GCE) has gained increasing conceptual popularity in recent years. The term has been used by governments, NGO’s and international agencies alike to promote a larger inclusion of global skills, values and attitudes in curricula across the world. However, GCE as practice is not a clearly defined framework and may involve many distinct themes and rationalities in its diff
The essay estimates the relation between population size and municipal costs. Whether the efficiency in service provision in municipalities is depending on population size is discussed in Sweden as well as other countries. The relation is measured using two measures for total costs and two measures for “fixed costs” associated with having an additional decision level. The result give some support
This thesis examines young people’s “lived citizenship” in the occupied West Bank and is based on qualitative research, including visual methods, carried out with a group of adolescents in Nablus. Young people’s ordinary experiences and everyday encounters with the notion of citizenship are at the core of my analysis, which adopts a micro-sociological approach in order to go beyond the “passive/en
This thesis evaluates the potential for machine guidance in winter road maintenance. The proposed benefits would be a reduction in material- or time needs. It should also reduce accidents with benefits for both property damages and personal injuries. The work methods and organisational structure of winter road maintenance is described through literature studies and interviews. The interviews are d
All Swedish citizens have the opportunity to continue their education on a university level. However, children with highly educated parents are far more likely to continue their studies after high school than others. The aim of this project is to inspire children to natural science, innovation and engineering at a young age. This to show what different possibilities the future has to offer, no mat
The six participants, two in Sweden and four in Denmark, interviewed for this thesis are all organizational outsiders: they consult organizations on how to create diverse workplaces. The empirical, qualitative material is analyzed within an interdisciplinary framework consisting of feminist, queer, anti-racist, affect and critical diversity theories. The focus of the thesis concerns resistance fro
Med anledning av att flera centralbanker baserar sin penningpolitik på ett inflationsmål, och att det med utgångspunkt från centralbankers agerande finns en större aversion mot deflation, i förhållande till inflation, undersöker vi i denna studie sambandet mellan deflation, inflation och ekonomisk tillväxt. Vi utgår från både teorier som menar att deflation är skadligt för ekonomisk tillväxt och t
