Sökning: "Guatemala"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 24 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Guatemala.

  1. 11. Staples, Institutions and Growth. Competitiveness of Guatemalan Exports 1524-1945

    Författare :Lars Pira; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics of development; Guatemala; Primary exports; Staples; Economic development; Institutions; Utvecklingsekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : In the integrated institutional-staples-‘vent for surplus’ approach, the opening of trade occurs because of initial demand. Once demand is determined, competitiveness is a function of transportation costs, entrepreneurship, capital, land and labour costs, as well as the role played by the State. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Social Policy of Our Time? : An Inquiry into Evidence, Assumptions, and Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America

    Författare :Johan Sandberg; Sociologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social policy; conditional cash transfers; policy diffusion; poverty; human capital; Latin America; Uruguay; Guatemala;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation presents an inquiry into existing evidence, underlying assumptions, and the rapid diffusion of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) in Latin America. Equally concerned with empirical research on CCTs’ assumed capabilities and the programmes’ political economy and social policy contexts, this inquiry combines systematic analyses and case studies from field work in Uruguay and Guatemala. LÄS MER

  4. 13. The role of disaster relief for long-term development in LDCs : with special reference to Guatemala after the 1976 earthquake

    Författare :Galo Abril-Ojeda; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  5. 14. Ecology and Control of Triatomine (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) Vectors of Chagas Disease in Guatemala, Central America

    Författare :Maria Carlota Monroy; Thomas G.T. Jaenson; Chris Curtis; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Biology; Chagas disease; control; epidemiology; ecology; Triatoma dimidiata; T. nitida; T. ryckmani; Rhodnius prolixus; serology; populations movements; geographic distribution.; Biologi; Biology; Biologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses several factors affecting the control of triatomines in Guatemala. There are three synantropic triatomines in Guatemala, i.e., Rhodnius prolixus, Triatoma dimidiata and T. LÄS MER

  7. 15. In the Lands of Oligarchs : Ethno-Politics and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Indigenous-Peasant Movements of Guatemala and Ecuador

    Författare :Magnus Lembke; Ishtiaq Ahmed; Björn Beckman; Teivo Teivainen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ethno-politics; indigenous-peasant movements; oligarch power structures; political regimes; social justice; strategies; structures; Political science; Statsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The study explores how struggles for social justice by Guatemalan and Ecuadorian indigenous peasant movements are affected by ethno-politics (the strategic political use of ethnicity), by using a comparative historical approach incorporating structural change and strategic agency. The analysis revolves around the partly enduring, partly changing oligarchic structures. LÄS MER