Sökning: "Three-Self Movement"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden Three-Self Movement.
1. Lutheran Missions in a Time of Revolution : The China Experience 1944-1951
Sammanfattning : In January, 1951, the Lutheran Church of China denounced all relations with the American, German and Scandinavian missions, which for more than half a century had worked in the country. As one of the first, this church made a clear and corporate stand in favour of the New Democracy and the Three-Self Movement, while most of the missions made their political choice, retreated with the Nationalists and finally went to Taiwan. LÄS MER
2. Drivers of Going Green in Financial Markets and Corporate Networks
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a collection of three self-contained empirical papers developing the knowledge on environmental responsibility of investors and corporations.The first paper investigates how corporate environmental performance propagates in firm networks. LÄS MER
3. An Economic Backbone of Development : Essays in Financial and Political Economy
Sammanfattning : The thesis consists of three self-contained essays.Local Banking and Historical Innovation: the Effect of Swedish Savings BanksHow does access to credit affect innovation at the early stages of development? This essay uses digitized records from the Swedish savings banks movement, in combination with novel data on the universe of historical patenting, to study how savings banks affected innovation in Sweden between 1900 and 1949, a period when the country was still a developing economy. LÄS MER
4. Institutions, Inequality and Societal Transformations
Sammanfattning : Institutions matter for economic development. This thesis consists of three self-contained articles which provide different contributions to institutional economics.The first article studies short-run changes in gender norms. It takes advantage of recent developments in machine learning algorithms to study changes in norms in Swedish tweets. LÄS MER
