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6. Environmental performance and sovereign bond yields: Evidence from emerging markets
Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenSammanfattning : This thesis analyses if investors price a country’s environmental (E) performance into sovereign bond yields. The sample consists of 17 emerging countries from 2011 to 2020. LÄS MER
7. Better Together: How Improved Gender Development and Inclusion May Strengthen Social Capabilities and Economic Resilience
Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenSammanfattning : In this paper, I strove to connect the dots between gender gaps in human development, the advancement of social capabilities, and resilience to shrinkage. To analyse this, I developed an extended and improved version of the United Nation’s Gender Development Index in which I broadened the economic opportunity aspect and provided 20 years of additional data. LÄS MER
8. Energy demand and biogas production in rural areas : A case study in the Raqayapampa community in Bolivia
Kandidat-uppsats, KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)Sammanfattning : Improved access to energy can greatly improve living standards, and there are correlations between increased access to electricity and higher scores on both the Human Development Index (HDI) and the Educational Development Index (EDI). Increasing access to energy can also help decrease dependability on hazardous fuels and energy sources, such as firewood for cooking. LÄS MER
9. Democratizing Democracy Indices: Towards a More Inclusive Measure
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolSammanfattning : Several large, international institutes and think tanks, like Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), International IDEA, and Freedom House, among others, focus on measuring and tracking government regime types and political environments, primarily through measuring democracies. Yet for all of their sophistication and massive datasets, there are misalignments between democracy scores and human rights for groups that are marginalized in many countries. LÄS MER
10. Intellectual Capital Driving SMEs Entrepreneurial Orientation towards Sustainable Development
Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för management (MAN)Sammanfattning : Addressing the scarce knowledge of sustainability practices in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the purpose of this paper is to identify how and if there is a link between intellectual capital (IC) and entrepreneurial orientation (EO), and if this connection contributes to a company’s sustainability performance. Based on a series of semi-structured interviews conducted with Swedish SMEs, our findings show that despite the limitations these companies experience in terms of financial and human resources, a focus on tackling sustainability issues appears to inspire entrepreneurial behaviour. LÄS MER