Sökning: "economic conditionality"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden economic conditionality.

  1. 1. Exchange Rates, Exports, Inflation, and International Monetary Cooperation

    Författare :Irina Andone; Nils Gottfries; Mikael Bask; Volker Nitsch; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Industry-level Real Effective Exchange Rates; Firm-level Exports; Inflation Persistence; Inflation Targeting; EMU; Financial Arrangements; IMF Conditionality; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays. Essay I: Exchange rate movements often cause anxiety among policy-makers, given the strong link between currency movements and export competitiveness, which may, in turn, affect economic growth. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Governing Development : The Millennium Development Goals and Gender Policy Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Författare :Helena Hede Skagerlind; Jonas Tallberg; Kristina Jönsson; Jeffrey Checkel; Mathias Koenig-Archibugi; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Millennium Development Goals; sustainable development; gender equality; human rights; performance indicators; United Nations; Sub-Saharan Africa; Kenya; Ethiopia; economic conditionality; social influence; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : Recent decades have witnessed an upsurge in the use of different forms of global performance assessments as a means to influence the behavior of states. Within the area of international development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reinforced the practice of development governance through global performance indicators (GPIs) and gained considerable agenda-setting power among the international development community. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Socio-cultural viability of international intervention in war-torn societies : a case study of Bosnia Herzegovina

    Författare :Dzenan Sahovic; Jan Engberg; Donna M Schlagheck; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Bosnia Herzegovina; peacebuilding; war-torn societies; High Representative; cultural theory; socio-cultural viability; conditionality; Bonn powers; local ownership; Political science; Statsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the ‘socio-cultural dilemma’ facing international peacebuilders in war-torn societies through a case study of the post-conflict process in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is done with the help of a typological approach of the grid-group Cultural Theory framework, which defines four social solidarities – or ideal type cultures – of individualism, egalitarianism, fatalism and hierarchy. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Getting Tough on Unemployment : Essays on the politics of unemployment benefit reform in affluent democracies

    Författare :Carlo Michael Knotz; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Welfare state reform; Unemployment benefits; Conditionality; Attitudes; Coalitions;

    Sammanfattning : The advanced democracies of Europe, North America, and Australasia have gotten tough on unemployment. Since the mid- to late-1970s, they started to put greater pressure on the unemployed by reducing the time for which unemployment benefits were paid, by imposing stricter job-search requirements, by extending the range of jobs considered suitable for claimants, and by tightening the penalties for non-compliance with these rules. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Managing migration in modern welfare states : Essays on the development, causes, and effects of policies regulating family immigration

    Författare :Anton Ahlén; Joakim Palme; Karin Borevi; Axel Cronert; Christian Albrekt Larsen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Family immigration; Migration policy; Welfare state; Conditionality; Progressive dilemma; Civic integration; Stratification; Policy configurations; Eligibility criteria; Qualifying conditions; Time-series cross-country analysis; Europe; OECD; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : Being the main channel of migration into advanced industrial democracies, family migration has been the subject of increasing contestation in political debate. While previous studies have noted that many OECD countries have introduced more restrictive policies on family immigration during the last few decades, we still know little about how cross-country policy configurations in this area have evolved and varied over time, or about how policies affect inflows and why they differ between countries. LÄS MER