Information and communication technologies have acquired contemporary prominence and are being introduced as new and technologically innovative devices for rapid African development, becoming key cornerstones of the development assistance interventions of the European Union and the G8. But the Dot Force Initiative of the G8 and the various ICT for development programmes of the EU display a moderni

The aim of this study was to take part of the knowledges and experiences authorised psychotherapists working with cognitive behaviortherapy have when it comes to create and maintain mental and physical health in their own lifes. The participants included 12 authorised psychotherapists all working within the private sector, 7 men and 5 women. The result from the semistructured interviews showed tha

Despite being small-size and compact country – with only 200 kilometers stretch from far East to West – the economy of Armenia faces significant spatial differentiation in income levels and is characterized by high concentrations of population, economic and business activities in the capital city with peripheral regions lagging behind economic activity and wages. By using the data on monthly avera

This paper examines the dynamics between foreign direct investment and economic growth. As scientific literature fails to provide common conclusion about FDI’s effect on host economy, investigation of single country can reveal the new aspects. Moreover, the contribution to literature of transition economies is made by choosing Czech Republic and Lithuania. Econometric analysis is employed in order

This thesis is a critical feminist analysis of the discourse of the Swedish populist radical right party the Sweden Democrats, focusing axes of social differences, power relations and emotions. Through a theoretical framework consisting of intersectional feminist theory and a methodological framework consisting of intersectionality and critical discourse analysis, selected empirical material from

In this study, the Female Labour Force Participation rate in Turkey between 1988 and 2008 is investigated. The main research was carried out by support of basic labour supply theories such as the Becker household model, the Gronau model and the u-shape hypothesis. Turkey is not a fully developed country which is why those theories are of fundamental importance to analyze the determinant factors of

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka vilka makroekonomiska faktorer som påverkar råvarupriserna. För studien används två välkända råvaruprisindex, CRB Index och S&P GSCI Index. Perioden för undersökningen sträcker sig från 1973-01 till och med 2010-04 och observationerna är månadsvisa. Tidigare forskning har visat att industriproduktion, räntan, US-dollarns växelkurs samt penningmängd ä

Using household level data from the Survey on the Status of Women and Fertility provided by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Population Studies Centre of University of Pennsylvania, the purpose of this thesis is to investigate the determinants of women’s empowerment and the presence of gender-related constraints within the household in rural India. Households from two states of different demogra

The aim and purpose of this study has been to examine how Swedish media portrays homeless people. This essay will explain my conclusions of how five Swedish newspapers, morning and evening press, describes homeless people. The articles I have chosen are from the largest newspapers and they are all published during a four month period of 2010. I have used Norman Faiclough´s model for a critical dis

Hur bedrivs pedagogisk utomhusaktivitet som främjar barnets intres-se och vilja att lära? Hur påverkar det utomhuspedagogiska utveck-lings arbetet förskolebarnens lärande? Detta är frågor som besvaras i denna uppsats. Avhandlingen tar upp ett försök att utveckla verk-samheten för barnen vid en förskola i södra Sverige i enlighet med det som föreskrivs i Läroplan för förskolan (Utbildningsdeparte-m

Everyday life of divorced and/or seperated fathers [translated title] The aim of this study was to examine how divorced and/or separated fathers perceive everyday life. The target group was delimited to Swedish men that had their children living with them on half-time or more. The analysis took the sociology of knowledge as a starting point and was made on the basis of the research findings of ei

The aim of this report was to examine how social workers in Sweden who meet women subjected to violence experience their work. The main focus of the report was to examine how social workers reason about the discretion in the work with women subjected to violence. The method of qualitative research was used to examine this. Four social workers were interviewed and presented a fictitious case by whi

China‟s relations with African countries represent a growing trend in international relations and South-South cooperation. One important aspect of these liaisons is China‟s financial assistance and its deployment of resource-backed infrastructure loans. Angola is China‟s biggest supplier of oil, whereas China is Angola‟s largest donor, having provided Angola with 7.4 billion dollars in credit line

Syftet med uppsatsen är att redogöra för hur revisorns lagstadgade ansvarsförsäkring enligt 27§ RL är utformad. Vidare studeras hur dess utformning är anpassningsbar till att revisorns rådgivande roll kan tänkas öka efter revisionspliktens avskaffande för mindre bolag den 1 november år 2010. För att kunna uppfylla syftet kommer följande problemformulering att besvaras: Hur är revisorns ansvarsförs

Stock seems to evolve over time in a structure similar to what is proposed by the Dow Theory. The investigation of intra-day investor behaviour suggests that the return characteristics are different from previous research around market close. It is most likely due to Sweden being a small and open economy affected by the global financial markets. The findings correspond to what is expected in terms

Research aim and questions: The aim of this research is to investigate the way Radio Free Europe’s Romanian Language Service presented the events of December 1989 in Romania. Since Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was one of the most important international broadcasting institutions during the Cold War, it is relevant to see what kind of interpretation was assigned to Romania’s 1989 political and

Moving to a new country and living in a new culture involves many processes of change and adaptation for the individual. Not only is the person surrounded by a new language, different norms, behaviour and traditions, but suddenly he or she is also an “immigrant” in this new society. This study was set out to examine the experience of being an immigrant in Sweden, with the aim to make the Swedish s