Cross-country data links good health status to an increase in wealth status (income levels) as evidenced by existing prevalence of rates of child morbidity and mortality in poorer settings. Essentially, Primary Health Care amongst other affordable health interventions is prioritized in most countries now. This thesis focuses on Ghana, to establish whether there exists an association between wealth

Describing many-body quantum systems has been an analytically and computationally challenging task since the advent of quantum mechanics. However, in the past 50 years as a result of our technological advancement and the emergence of methods such as density-functional theory (DFT), we have taken crucial steps forward regarding our ability to study and understand large quantum systems. In this work

This paper studies the relationship between contraceptive adoption by women and three relevant predictors: women’s education, empowerment and religious affiliation. I employ recent information on women’s characteristics and the institutional environment for six Latin American countries, in the years 2013-2015, to perform a cross-section analysis with binary and multinomial logistic regressions, ha

This research looks into the gender equality work of two IT companies in Sweden, examines what actions the companies pursue in their gender equality work, the level of management involvement and how that affects the outcome. In the IT industry, organizations are failing with retaining their female employees (Correll & Mackenzie, 2016). Further, stereotypes result in, e.g. the IT industry is se

Developing countries have undergone a process of rapid urbanization since the 1950s. However, some of them did not follow the “natural” path of urbanization, implying that additional factors also played an important role in the process of urbanization. This thesis examines common drivers of the urbanization process across countries in Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Thereby, it analyse

Abstract: Over the last decades, remittances have significantly gained in importance for developing countries. Using recent household data, this thesis assesses the impact of remittances on agricultural productivity for the case of Ghana. Accounting for sample selection bias and endogeneity concerns, an overall positive but modest impact of remittances emerges. Yet, this estimate discerns crucial

Currently, more than one billion people in the world is exposed to flooding and approximately 10 percent of them suffer its consequences every year. With the onset of climate change, the frequency of these events is likely to increase, and especially in Asia and Africa, where many of the global poor are located. One of the reasons why this is likely to present a challenge for poverty reduction is

Med bakgrund till den allt mer medicinska synen på mental (o)hälsa som tidigare forskning deklarerar för, är syftet med denna uppsats att sociologiskt undersöka hur ensamkommande unga vuxna män upplever bemötandet av den psykiatriska vården i Sverige. För att göra detta möjligt måste orsakerna för den mentala (o)hälsan hos de ensamkommande unga vuxna männen först utredas och analyseras. De frågest

Using the data from the United Nations Development Programme survey (2004), the thesis explores whether the incidence of chronic diseases is associated with residential segregation. Possible differences are measured for Roma communities relative to the majority population living in urban residences inhabited by minority, mixed and majority groups. The sample consists of 17,669 observations from 7

Sammanfattning: Titel: Vem vill gå en romantisk promenad i ett industriområde? En kvalitativ studie om logistikens betydelse som en tjänst för olika aktörer i ett citylogistikprojekt Nivå: Kandidatuppsats i Logistics Service Management, VT 2018 Universitet: Lunds Universitet, Campus Helsingborg, Institutionen för Service Management Syfte och frågeställning: Syftet med vår studie är att belys

This dissertation endeavours to examine long-lasting sequels of malaria on economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the general consensus that countries where malaria is endemic are not only poorer but also grow economically at a slower pace than non-malarial ones, the channels through which malaria incidence translates into lower subsequent development are still under-examined. The aim

Hur ser framtidens jordbruk ut? Hur ska utmaningar som klimatförändringar och försämrade jordbruksmarker kunna hanteras samtidigt som tillräckliga mängder mat produceras för att föda den ständigt växande mänskliga befolkningen? Genom pyrolys, det vill säga upphettning av biomassa utan tillgång till syre, skapas biokol, ett stabilt material med hög porositet och mycket hög kolhalt. Biokol kan plöjaBiochar is a recalcitrant carbon rich solid product widely praised for the ability to improve soil fertility and sequester carbon, thereby improving crop yields and mitigating climate change. In addition to this, gaseous by products from production can be combusted for energy. Despite the recent global peaks in biochar research, studies focused on temperate regions are relatively scarce and few Eu

Wind energy has not been able to diffuse widely in the Netherlands, despite the great history of harnessing wind power. To understand the factors responsible for the slow diffusion of wind energy in the Netherlands, a qualitative study has been performed through semi-structured interviews. Drawing on insights from regime influences, this study has applied the multi-level framework by Geels (2012)

Vi demonstrerar i denna artikel en generell tre-stegs-lösning för att förbättra vägnamnsdata i olika länder genom att fylla i saknade namn, rättstava felstavade namn och flagga anomalier.OpenStreetMap is an open source of geographical data where contributors can change, add, or remove data. Since anyone can contribute, the data set is prone to contain data of varying quality. In this work, we focus on three approaches for correcting Way component name tags in the data set: Correcting misspellings, flagging anomalies, and generating suggestions for missing names. Today, spell correc

While index insurance has received increased attention as an instrument for adaptation to climate change, evidence supporting its effectiveness remains limited. This thesis explores the potential of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) based livestock index insurance in Northern Kenya to help small-scale farmers to manage climate change risks in the event of livestock-reducing drought. Th

The Paris Agreement has increased interest in environmental policy research, which has alerted that companies will relocate their investment to countries with less stringent environmental standards. This pollution haven effect, although theoretically analyzed, has wide-ranging empirical results which are highly dependent on the selected case and proxy for environmental policy stringency. Attemptin

Armenia is a small, land-locked, transitional economy in the region of South Caucasus with a huge potential of developing its solar energy system. The challenges that the country’s energy sector is facing, such as high dependence on imported natural gas and oil, energy dependence on a single market, high transport costs, old and inefficient infrastructure, as well as the risk of repetition of ener

Transnational adoption is a type of adoption where the couple (or an individual) voluntarily become the permanent and legal parents of an adoptee from a different nation. Sweden has been actively participating the transnational adoption since the early 1970s, and from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, China had been one of the major donor countries for Sweden. The children and the parents have di

In recent years an explosion of new innovations have developed in the Sub-Saharan African digital economy. The services these innovations have provided such as banking, insurance and health care have long been widely available in the Developed World, yet massively underprovided in the region. This research has found that new innovations have developed to tackle unique problems to Sub-Saharan Afric