Today there is more people living in urban areas than in rural; this has changed the structure of the cities and resulted in a faster growing slum in the developing world, especially in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). The purpose of this study is to first give a broad overview of slum characters and motivations, and analyze the fact that slum formation is wider in developing countries than in industrial

Titel: Timing på månadsbasis – En utvärdering av bankernas placeringsråd Kurs: NEKK01 – Kandidatuppsats 15 hp Författare: Staffan Banck Handledare: Erik Norrman Nyckelord: Månadsspara, marknadstiming, buy and hold, Sharpekvot, indexfonder. Syfte: Att undersöka huruvida en investerare som placerar lika stora belopp i en indexfond varje månad får en avkastning som kan anses signifikant skiljd

The fight about the syringe - a discourse analysis of the needle exchange debate The debate about needle exchange had been going on for twenty years in Sweden when the Act (2006:323) on the exchange of needles and syringes was introduced in 2006. But still the syringe exchange program is only implemented in Skåne. The purpose of this study was to, with a social constructionist and discourse analy

The foreign exchange market is regarded as one of the biggest and most liquid market in the world. This should make a good foundation for finding profitable trading strategies. Currencies are seldom treated as an investable asset despite the good liquidity, however, within the hedge fund industry they are traded on regular basis based on a number of strategies. I have chosen to evaluate and if pos

On the 8Th of December 2010 the decision was made in Nacka cultural committee, to outsource all six public libraries of the municipality. The decision is unique in Swedish library history and resulted in an intense debate that took place on several forums. This master’s thesis concerns the contemporary debate on privatization of public libraries. The aim is to analyse the debate in the light of

Background: A major challenge of today is to protect the marine ecosystem from a total collapse. Overfishing, illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, climate change in the sea, coral bleaching, ocean acidification, marine pollution impacts of coastal development, exotic and invasive species and last but not least all the cumulative impacts, are just some of the factors degrading our marine en

Abstract Authors: Madelene Samuelsson and Linnéa Jönsson Title: The secret of social services: Sweden’s most attractive employer – a qualitative study about motivation and job satisfaction in social services Supervisor: Claes Levin Assessor: Kristina Göransson The aim of this qualitative study was to examine what factors that affect Swedish social workers motivation and job satisfaction, and whic

Category appellation for vulnerable groups in society seems to be afflicted more often by language change in contrast to changes in the general language. Especially this is the case with terms for persons who have mental and/or physical disabilities. This bachelor essay is about the innovations and alternations to the technical language used in human service organization, and the importance of thi

A large number of studies have shown that macroeconomic variables can explain co-movements in stock market returns in developed markets. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether this relation also holds in China’s two stock markets. By doing a heteroscedastic cointegration analysis, the long run relation is investigated. The results show that it is difficult to determine if a cointegrat

Författare: Jessica Blom Larsson Handledare: Fredrik Schoug Examinator: Fredrik Miegel Titel: Mediebilden av den utsatta familjen Avdelning: Enheten för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, Lunds universitet. Mål och syfte: Uppsatsens huvudsyfte är att undersöka vad pressen förmedlar för bild av den svenska familjehemsvården och dess aktörer. Målet är den resonerande konklusionen där jag argument

Title: CRM - how to deal with it Seminar date: 31st of May 2011 Course: FEKK01 Business Administration: Degree Project undergraduate level, 15 ECTS credits Authors: Louise Hedenmark, Malin Isaksson and Tatiana Shalalvand Advisors: Ola Mattisson and Christine Blomqvist Key words: Strategic implementation, strategic change, Customer Relationship Management, Telia. Purpose: The purpose of the study i

Bakgrund: Betydelsen av medarbetare i kunskapsintensiva företag har på senare tid blivit allt viktigare eftersom företagets värde ligger i medarbetares kunskap. Detta har lett till ett intresse att motivera medarbetare i kunskapsintensiva företag. Syfte: Syftet med vår uppsats är att undersöka vad som motiverar anställda i arbetet i kunskapsintensiva företag. Metod: I arbetet har vi använt oss av

Syfte: Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur ett CSR- orienterat företag kan arbeta strategiskt för att uppnå och behålla legitimitet i en konkurrensintensiv bransch samt att identifiera kritiska faktorer bakom denna strategi. Metod: Vi har genom en kvalitativ metod genomfört en fallstudie med explorativ ansats. Fallstudien har grundats på semistrukturerade intervjuer samt genom ytterligare inform

I detta examensarbete granskas ett modifierat enstegstätat fasadsystem, StoTherm Vario D, som bygger på den nya dränerande fasadskivan Ignucell Protect. Syftet är att undersöka om det finns någon anledning att tro att systemet inte skulle klara den fuktbelastning det kan utsättas för. Skivan och fasadsystemets uppbyggnad och egenskaper har sammanställts och presenteras i denna rapport. Utöver befi

In this thesis the group of European countries that signed the Maastricht treaty are investigated subject to the endogeneity aspect and the specialization effect of optimal currency areas. The main method used is time series factor analysis for identification of a common European business cycle. To give the analysis a firm basis the USA is compared with European countries during the 1970-2010 peri

Using a volume filter on daily index and stock price data the daily return has been researched. The explanatory variables used in the study are the 1 M T-Bill, the term spread - 10 Y Treasury bond versus a 3 M T-Bill -, and the oil price. The results revealed that accounting for trade volume is an important part in explaining the return of a stock or index. The volume activity provides additional

Problem och syfte: Hälsokommunikation som rör alkohol ställer höga krav på budskapsformulering. Anledningen är att man inom alkoholkampanjer så som Festmetoden och IQ har som mål att mottagarna ska dricka på ”rätt sätt” eller att de ska få en sundare inställning gentemot alkohol. Inom andra hälsokampanjer, så som antirökkampanjer, uppmanar man istället mottagarna att sluta med det hälsofarliga bet

All different, All equal -a study on ASI from social workers perspective The use of standardized assessment instruments in social work has increased rapidly in recent years in Sweden. The focus of the scientific research concerning these instruments has been on the deficiencies in the instrument itself, rather than the use of the instrument per se. Therefore this paper highlights the use of stand

Numerous past studies investigating the performance of hedge funds suffer from two distinct problems: unreliable and biased return data inherent in virtually all databases and the use of static asset-pricing models. Using “indexes of indexes” for our hedge fund returns, both free of biases and highly representative, we investigate which risk factors investors are exposed to and whether hedge fund

This essay investigates the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis using the Environmental Performance Index (EPI). The index incorporates various environmental indicators related to human health as well as the human impact on ecosystem vitality. Therefore it assesses environmental quality better than separate environmental indicators, which are usually used to test the EKC hypothesis. We ru