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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 32 avhandlingar innehållade ordet charity.
21. Business Model Design for Social Goods and Services in Developing Economies
Sammanfattning : Over the past decade there have been increasing calls for alternative ways of tackling poverty problems in developing economies. Rather than aid or charity approaches that have traditionally dominated this area, an alternative line of discussion around base-of-the-pyramid approaches has emerged which emphasizes the role of innovation and pro-poor entrepreneurship. LÄS MER
22. Age Differences in Experience and Regulation of Affect
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of the thesis is to investigate differences in how younger and older adults view and control affect. Study I and Study II investigate how participants view their happiness and what factors influence their perception of happiness. In Study I we found weak negative association between age and happiness. LÄS MER
23. The promise of payday: exploring the role of state cash transfers in post-apartheid rural South Africa
Sammanfattning : During the last two decades, cash transfer programs have become a significant tool across low and middle-income countries in efforts to reduce poverty. However, there is a paucity of studies on beneficiaries’ own perspectives and lived experiences of cash transfers as well as potential long-term productive effects on livelihoods. LÄS MER
24. No entrepreneur is an island : An exploration of social entrepreneurial learning in accelerators
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the learning of social entrepreneurs in accelerators. Building on Jarvis’ (2010) existential theory of learning, it conceptualises entrepreneurial learning as a process in which purposeful individuals encounter and transform experiences of disjuncture. These experiences are embedded in both human and material contexts. LÄS MER
25. The Coloniality of Taste : A political ecology of middle class food practices in a Bolivian city
Sammanfattning : Cochabamba city, also referred to as the “gastronomic capital of Bolivia”, is a place where different cultures and tastes meet. Indulging in rich culinary traditions is a part of everyday life, but so are social differentiations reproducing long-standing inequalities between the indigenous and the non-indigenous population. LÄS MER
