Sökning: "World Bank aid"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 32 uppsatser innehållade orden World Bank aid.

1. 6. Mining for the low-carbon transition : Conflicting discourses of sacrifice zones and win-win narratives

   Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Isabella Andersson; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Climate-smart mining; low-carbon transition; discourse analysis; discourse coalitions; storylines; sacrifice zones; World Bank;

   Sammanfattning : To support the transition towards a low-carbon economy, mining companies, international financial institutions and governments are preparing to drastically scale up mineral extraction of energy transition minerals such as cobalt and lithium. Mineral extraction, however, has far-reaching impacts on the biophysical environment and mining-affected communities that may become more severe under a changing climate. LÄS MER

3. 7. The Legal Empowerment Paradoxy? : A Critical Exploration of Power Imbalances in the Legal Empowerment Discourse from a Global North/South Perspective

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Anna Wifvesson; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Legal Empowerment; North-South; South-South; Development Aid; Postcolonialism;

   Sammanfattning : Legal empowerment as a theoretical and practical concept has gained increasing attention in international development. Due to the shifting aid paradigm, caused by the rising of South-South cooperation, legal empowerment’s proposed bottom-up character has challenged the larger conventional top-down approaches to development that traditionally have dominated the development agenda. LÄS MER

4. 8. The Relationship between United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals and Swedish Banks’ Credit Rating of Manufacturing Customers

   Master-uppsats, KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

   Författare :MARTIN GUSTAFSSON; PATRIK ZYTOMIERSKI; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Sustainability; ESG; Credit Rating; Sustainable Development Goals; SDG; Sustainable Risk; Manufacturing Industry; Hållbarhet; ESG; företags kreditvärdighet; SDG; Globala målen för hållbar utveckling; hållbar risk; tillverkningsindustri;

   Sammanfattning : The sustainable development of the section providing financing within Swedish banks are going through major challenges and changes. The United Nations is constantly working on improving sustainable directives within all industries to ultimately reach all 17 sustainable development goals that have been set up for a more sustainable world. LÄS MER

5. 9. THE IMF, CHINA AND CONDITIONALITY

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Alastair Grant; [2019]
   Nyckelord :Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : This research is an attempt to critically examine the impact that China’s aid program has had upon IMF conditionality. By building upon the work of Diego Hernandez (2017) who found that with every 1% increase in Chinese aid, the World Bank typically lessens its conditions for market liberalisation and economic transparency by 15%, this paper looks at the background surrounding China’s rise to become an aid super power, the background of aid conditionality, and the IMF. LÄS MER

7. 10. Evaluating the Impact of Chinese and World Bank Foreign Aid Projects on Preferences for Democracy in Tanzania

   C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Författare :Johanna Edin; Ossian Granit; [2019]
   Nyckelord :Foreign aid; China; World Bank; Tanzania; Democracy;

   Sammanfattning : Recognizing that democracy is important for the efficient use of foreign aid, this paper examines whether the presence of foreign aid projects impact the democratic preferences for local residents in Tanzania. Considering China's increased presence as an international donor, we compare the democratic preferences for Tanzanians surrounding Chinese and World Bank aid projects. LÄS MER