Sökning: "wealth rankings"

Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade orden wealth rankings.

  1. 1. INNOVATION IN EUROPE A Comparative Study

    Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Bartlomiej Piotr Kolodziejczyk; [2020-09-16]
    Nyckelord :innovation; comparison; Europe;

    Sammanfattning : Innovation is one of the major factors of the country’s development and wealth. It is generally accepted that economically strong countries can afford to dedicate more funds to research and development, and as such, the economy and innovation are highly interconnected. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Passport Power – Citizenship by Investment Programmes Exploiting Spatiotemporal Hierarchies of Passports

    Master-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om migration, etnicitet och samhälle

    Författare :Irvina Udyakisya Freisleben; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Passport; Passport Inequalities; Mobility; Citizenship; CBI; Global Citizen;

    Sammanfattning : The practice of selling passports through Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programmes is gaining more attraction and legitimacy in light of increasingly stricter immigration policies. Instead of simply weighing the pro and contra points of CBI, this thesis aims to understand CBI as a consequence of neoliberalism and analyses the correlation between so called ‘passport power’ and wealth, whereby the former is determined by rankings and the latter is represented in terms of the gross domestic product (GDP). LÄS MER

  4. 3. New seeds for poor women? Reflections on the Multinational New Rice for Africa (Nerica) dissemination project in Sierra Leone

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Författare :Hanna Egeltoft; [2011]
    Nyckelord :Nerica; Sierra Leone; adoption decisions; gender; dissemination; extension; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : The introduction of new farming technologies, such as high-yielding varieties, has for long been regarded as one of the best strategies to increase agricultural production, and to combat poverty and food-insecurity. Since around 2005, New Rice for Africa (Nerica) is one of the main development strategies for combating such issues in Sierra Leone, and in many other African countries. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Kiru Valley Complexity : A case study over consequences of and causes to conflicts over irrigation water in Tanzania

    Master-uppsats, Institutionen för livsvetenskaper

    Författare :Samy Said; [2008]
    Nyckelord :International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD ; irrigation system; water scarcity; Babati District; wealth rankings; Africa;

    Sammanfattning : Inequalities among different power groups are getting obvious in Kiru Valley, Tanzania mainly due to water scarcity. This paper aims to examine, by a case study, the increasing competition over irrigation water among Kiru Valley farmers in relation to socio-economic stratification. LÄS MER