Sökning: "Kenya"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 172 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Kenya.

1. 6. Sustaining Authoritarianism : Clientelism and Repression in Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan and Tanzania

   Författare :Mia Orange; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Clientelism; Repression; Authorianism; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tanzania; Kenya;

   Sammanfattning : Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan and Tanzania share a past and present as authoritarian states. Dominant parties are in power in Tanzania and Kazakhstan, while elections are competitive but not democratic in Kenya and Kyrgyzstan. LÄS MER

3. 7. Reading literacy in relation to patterns of academic achievement in Kenya

   Författare :John Odwar Agak; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; academic achievement; reading literacy; Lisrel; performance; Kenya;

   Sammanfattning : How is reading literacy related to academic achievement among 14 year old students in Kenya? This was the main issue in focus for the present study.The TEA Reading Literacy Test was used for measuring reading literacy and the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) was used for measuring academic achievement. LÄS MER

4. 8. Essays on Manufacturing Production in a Developing Economy: Kenya 1992-94

   Författare :Karl Lundvall; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Firm size; Kenya; manufacturing; stochastic frontier production functions; data envelopment analysis; technical efficiency; factor substitution; informal sector.;

   Sammanfattning : The dissertation consists of five separate empirical papers based on panel data from Kenyan manufacturing firms in the food, wood, textile and metal sectors, collected during the early 1990s, and an overview of the economic literature on small firms in developing countries. The principal tools of analysis are the microeconomic theory of production and econometrics. LÄS MER

5. 9. Ghostlines: Movements, Anticipations, and Drawings of the LAPSSET Development Corridor in Kenya

   Författare :Johannes Theodor Aalders; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Infrastructure; Kenya; Im Mobilities; Temporalities; Comics;

   Sammanfattning : The Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) corridor is a partly completed development corridor in Kenya that will connect the eponymous places via roads, pipelines and railway lines, if completed. This thesis investigates how inhabitants of the traversed area navigate and shape the spatio-temporal landscape of the corridor, following three motifs: lines created through moving, anticipating, and drawing. LÄS MER

7. 10. Archaeological Perspectives on Risk and Community Resilience in the Baringo Lowlands, Kenya

   Författare :Nik Petek; Paul Lane; Matthew Davies; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Risk spiral; community resilience; archaeology; pastoralism; Baringo; Kenya; history; Ilchamus; Njemps; spatial statistics; East Africa; Holocene; environment; environmental degradation; colonialism; ethnogenesis; community conformity; survey; remote sensing; habitation; subsistence; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Sammanfattning : This historical ecological research provides a detailed insight into the risk avoidance and resilience building strategies in the Lake Baringo basin in Kenya through the lens of archaeology. It explores how changes in subsistence, habitation, and landscape shaped each other and how that affected the available strategies of risk avoidance and resilience building. LÄS MER