Sökning: "wealth accumulation"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade orden wealth accumulation.

  1. 1. Accumulation from Below : Smallholders and public irrigation investments in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania

    Författare :Victor Mbande; Lowe Börjeson; Johan Berg; Liwenga Liwenga; Klara Fischer; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Accumulation; social differentiation; wealth ranking; irrigation; smallholders; agriculture transformation; land use change; rice boom; progressive farmers; development; geografi med kulturgeografisk inriktning; Geography with Emphasis on Human Geography;

    Sammanfattning : Smallholders in Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa are increasingly differentiated. This thesis contributes to the empirical and conceptual understanding of the differentiation processes in irrigation by following the internal dynamics among smallholders linked to public investments in improving smallholder initiated small scale irrigation schemes in Kilombero district, Tanzania. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Yxors liv, människors landskap : En studie av kulturlandskap och samhälle i Mellansveriges senneolitikum

    Författare :Per Lekberg; Björn Magnusson-Staf; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Material culture; contexts; landscape; continuity and change; wealth accumulation; peer-polity interaction; Swedish Late Neolithic; European Bronze Age.; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis deals with the social situation of Late Neolithic society, as it can be studied in the contextual formation and the accumulation of wealth in the Late Neolithic landscape of Central Sweden (c. 2350-1700 cal. BC). LÄS MER

  4. 3. En skandinavisk järnvägskontraktörs karriär i Indien 1860–1867 : ackumulering av socialt och kulturellt kapital som framgångsstrategi i en kolonial kontext

    Författare :Ingemar Gunnarsson; Gunlög Fur; Malin Lennartsson; Niels Brimnes; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; railway construction; British India; colonialism; cultural capital; railway contractors; social capital; social networks; subcontractors; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : This study is about Joseph Samuel Frithiof Stephens (1841–1934) and how he as a Scandinavian contractor acquired an economic fortune in the colonial India. The fortune was used for the acquisition of the mill property Huseby Bruk in Småland and also contributed to the Stephens family's strategy of advancing in the then Danish bourgeois class establishment. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Insuring Against Unemployment

    Författare :Jonas Kolsrud; Bertil Holmlund; Erling Barth; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; unemployment insurance; savings; consumption smoothing; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This paper studies optimal public unemployment insurance (UI) when workers have the possibility of topping-up public UI with private UI that is endogenous to public UI and subject to moral hazard. The issue is analyzed with a theoretical model in which publicly insured workers, who differ in layoff risk, hidden to the planner, are offered to top-up public UI with private UI. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Essays on Macroeconomics

    Författare :Daria Finocchiaro; Torsten Persson; Wouter Den Haan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Macroeconomics; Heterogeneous Agents; Small Open Economy; Bayesian Estimation; House Prices; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three essays on macroeconomics.“Inattentive Consumers in General Equilibrium” explores the effects of heterogeneity in planning propensity on wealth inequality and asset prices. LÄS MER