China’s cities are currently facing immense challenges due to the vast rural-urban migration that has been triggered by the country’s market-transition. The country’s rapid, top-down implemented, urban (re)developments have answered the call to a certain extent. However, the startling pace and scale of the projects has caused concerns internationally about the sustainability of its urban planning

Tanzania is an illustrating case of how gender inequalities hinder the social, economic and political development of the country. Women’s subordinated position is an alarming factor which takes intricate forms grounded in traditional African culture and patriarchy. The struggle of existing laws does hence not reach out to the majority of women, leaving them unaware of their rights. Further, a numb

The purpose of this paper is to deliver a clearer picture regarding the possible effects of the in-store TV screens on consumers’ impulse purchase decision and how factors such as the gender and generation can influence the consumers’ behavior towards this digital signage. Therefore this objective academic paper will contribute to bring discernment and relevant material for future studies through

The purpose of this essay is to investigate what implications a naturalized account of metaethics could have for our understanding of ethics and to advance a type of ethical naturalism that is non-reductionist. During the course of the study several different approaches to metaethics are investigated and critically evaluated, before a positive account of ethical naturalism is delivered. It is argu

It is frequently proposed that security and development are inextricably linked. Through history, development and security have constituted separate discourses, but during the 1990s matters of security and development was increasingly being discussed in concert, both in relation to discourse and policy, giving rise to what is commonly referred to as the security-development nexus. When the Millenn

The thesis attempts to assess the role of the OECD Commentaries in tax treaty interpretation process concluded between Non-OECD and OECD states. In order to reach the goal of the thesis the thesis discusses the legal status of the OECD Commentaries under public international law, in particular the interrelation of the Commentaries with the Articles of 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention. The thesis

Summary The EU and the Member States are concerned about VAT fraud and they consider it necessary to reduce the gap the VAT fraud makes. The purpose of this thesis is to describe three methods that are used in the fight against VAT fraud. Those methods are the reverse charge mechanism, joint and several liability and the knowledge test. Those methods are described, defined how they are used and wh

Since the end of the Cold War, EU migration policy has been subjected to securitization, and migrants have been viewed as potential threats to European security and homogeneity. However, in recent years the migration-development nexus has experienced a renaissance. The benefits of migration have increasingly come to influence the policy agenda. In this setting, the Global Approach to Migration de

Vi lever i ett postmodernt samhälle där miljöproblem är ett stort fenomen som präglar vår kultur. I denna uppsats har vi studerat hur marknadsföring drar nytta av människors oro för miljön, genom grön marknadsföring. Vi har använt Ben & Jerry’s som fallstudie och gjort en semiotisk och retorisk analys av deras hemsida. En semiotisk analys synliggör tecken, symboler och associationer typiska fö

Natural hazards and disasters are serious contemporary threats as climate change is causing an increase in the frequency of extreme weather conditions worldwide. The Caribbean is geographically located in the North Atlantic Ocean at the junction of the Caribbean Plate and the North American Plate. The region is in a high-risk zone for natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes. In the sp

This thesis is based on a qualitative study of paratexts, or paratextual elements, in Muḥammad Khalīfah al-Tūnisīys translation of the Antisemitic forgery Protocols of the (Learned) Elders of Zion (in translation: al-Khaṭar al-Yahūdīy: Brūtūkūlāt Ḥukamā’ Ṣahyūn ), from 1951. Gérard Genette, and his book Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation constitutes the theoretical framework of the study, whi

Ledsagare – en förlängd arm? Av: Emelie Johansson Abstract The aim of this essay was to see how the respondents reasoned about different themes like, isolation, integration and barriers to integration, given that they had all been diagnosed with a psychosis diagnosis. The essay has used qualitative interviews, by the author of this essay, with persons working as escort to persons with an impairme

The thesis aims to explore and understand gender inequality that exists in the global labour market in general and for the Bangladeshi female immigrants in particular. It emphasises feminization of employment in relation to state-market-family relations. The thesis also discusses the ways and to what extent Bangladeshi female immigrant’s roles are sources of entitlement to the provision of UK’s la

The aim of the study was to examine how decision-makers at the Swedish Migration board argue about asylum seekers' reasons for asylum. Specific attention was paid to interviewees' descriptions of differences between female and male asylum seekers. Five semi-structured interviews were realized with decision-makers at the Swedish Migration Board. These were analyzed using Lipsky's theory

The purpose of this study is to investigate how professional administrative officers in three authorities of small town, experience collaboration in their work with clients in the Swedish rehabilitation reform. The authorities who have participated in the study are two governmental, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, the Swedish Public Employment Service and one local, the Municipality of Social

In English, there are specific verbs called posture verbs. They denote the posture of subjects and objects. To state whether an animate object is standing or sitting is hardly any trouble but how do we state inanimate objects? What determines their posture? These posture verbs denoting inanimate object are easily found in recipes, thus, this essay will examine which variables are the ones determin

I och med Hu Jintaos och Wen Jiabaos tillträde till makten har den kinesiska regeringens fokus kommit att flyttas från ren ekonomisk utveckling till att i högre grad än tidigare fokusera på att minska klyftorna mellan stad och landsbygd. Denna uppsats undersöker några av de problem som centralregeringen ser på landsbygden idag, samt några av de lösningar som presenterats. I undersökningen av situaSince Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao took office the focus of the Chinese government has been less on pure economic development than before and more on developing the countryside. This paper investigates some of the problems the central government sees in the countryside as well as some of their solutions to those problems. The book The Grain People: Will China’s Villages Disappear? (Liangmin－Zhongguo n