Sökning: "international financial institutions"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 22 avhandlingar innehållade orden international financial institutions.

1. 1. International Financial Institutions and Labour Standards : A Legal Study of the Role of These Institutions in the Promotion and Implementation of Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining

   Författare :Mpoki Mwakagali; Niklas Bruun; Tonia Novitz; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; international financial institutions; international labour standards; freedom of association and collective bargaining; conditionality; international law; human rights; development; Private Law; civilrätt;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the legal implications of the operations of international financial institutions (IFIs) on international labour standards on freedom of association and collective bargaining. International financial institutions provide financial assistance to member states for development activities and attach conditionality to their lending. LÄS MER

3. 2. Heterogeneous firms, international trade and institutions

   Författare :Sara Formai; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three independent papers, ordered chronologically with respect to when they were initiated. Empirical research has established that there are large and persistent productivity differences among firms in narrowly defined industries (Bartelsman and Doms, 2000). LÄS MER

4. 3. Firms in Global Value Chains : An Analysis of the Determinants and Effects of the Changing Location of International Production

   Författare :Trudy-Ann Stone; Charlie Karlsson; Philippe Rouchy; Quoreshi Shahid; Bengtsson Lars; Andrés Rodríguez-Pose; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Global value chains; outsourcing; offshoring; technical efficiency; multinational firms; imports; exports; financial crisis; institutions;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the globalization of production, a salient feature of the modern economy. The development of international outsourcing as a widespread business practice and the simultaneous decrease in trade and transport costs have contributed to the growth of a phenomenon known as global value chains. LÄS MER

5. 4. Policy, Institutions and Misallocation

   Författare :Yangzhou Yuan; John Hassler; Karl Walentin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Misallocations; Bubbles; Financial Frictions; Fertility Constraints; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis contains three models. Chapter 1 illustrates financial market incompleteness causes misallocations and fluences international trade pattern. Countries with more complete markets tend to specialize in risky sectors. Chapter 2 sets up a cross-generation utility function. LÄS MER

7. 5. Structural Violence as a Constraint to African Policy Formation in the 1990s : Respositioning Education in International Relations

   Författare :Catherine A Odora Hoppers; Birgit Brock-Utne; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Structural violence; policy formation; power relations; aid; discourses; geo-politics; education; knowledge; neo-liberalism; Structural Adjustment Programmes; reflexivity; transdisciplinarity; Public Policy Dialogue.; internationell pedagogik; International Education;

   Sammanfattning : This study is a meta-analysis of the manner in which global relations impact on national level policy spaces and policy formation. As the International Financial Institutions tighten their grip through the Structural Adjustment Programmes over African countries, and donors steadily shift their ground and push conditionality beyond economic policy into institutional arrangements, the issue of political sovereignty of African countries, and of indirect rule through aid becomes a key concern. LÄS MER