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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden lund economic afrika.

1. 1. To Have and to Hold: Continuity and change in property rights institutions governing water resources among the Meru of Tanzania and the BaKgatla in Botswana; 1925-2000

   Författare :Ellen Hillbom; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; institutional change; Botswana; institutions; Kgatleng; Meru; natural resources; property rights; Tanzania; Sub-Saharan Africa; water; Social and economic history; Ekonomisk och social historia;

   Sammanfattning : Allocation, control, and management of natural resources are issues that absorb researchers within both the social and natural sciences. This study deals with such research questions as well as with one of the most fundamental issues in Economic History – namely institutional change. LÄS MER

3. 2. From Trade Preferences to Trade Facilitation

   Författare :Maria Persson; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Developing countries; EU trade preferences; Trade Facilitation; Gravity model; ACP; EU; Economic Partnership Agreements; Sample Selection; Extensive and Intensive Margins of Trade; Export Diversification; North-South Trade; Homogeneous and Differentiated Goods;

   Sammanfattning : The main theme of the thesis is how to increase trade between the European Union (EU) and developing countries. Two available policy options are assessed: trade preferences and trade facilitation. LÄS MER

4. 3. Between crisis and opportunity : Livelihoods, diversification and inequality among the Meru of Tanzania

   Författare :Rolf Larsson; Sociologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology of labour; Meru; Tanzania; Arusha; peasants; sociology of enterprise; family farmers; smallholders; coffee production; income diversification; de-agrarianisation; agricultural intensification; inequality; social differentiation; economic liberalization.; Sociology; Agricultural economics; Sociologi; Arbetslivssociologi; företagssociologi; Lantbruksekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Sustained high population growth rates are radically altering the livelihood conditions for small farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. In one of the most fertile and densely settled areas of East Africa, Mount Meru in Northern Tanzania, the size of the population has increased nearly tenfold within the last century. LÄS MER

5. 4. Mutor i det godas tjänst? : Biståndsarbetare i samtal om vardaglig korruption

   Författare :Joakim Thelander; Sociologiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; white-collar crime; self-presentations; rhetoric; reported speech; quotations; petty corruption; narrative; morality; interviews; interaction; impression management; gifts; etiquette; discourse; economic crime; development; corruption; contrasts; constructionism; bribes; bribery; boundary-work; anticorruption; accounts; aid work; Criminology; Sociology; Social psychology; Kriminologi; Sociologi; Socialpsykologi;

   Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, corruption and bribery are investigated as social and moral, rather than economic, phenomena. The analysis concentrates on the ways in which Swedish and Danish aid workers describe their experiences of everyday or 'petty' corruption. LÄS MER

7. 5. Health care utilisation in a developing country -the case of Zambia

   Författare :Catharina Hjortsberg; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Public health; Utvecklingsekonomi; Economics of development; access; health care; utilisation; epidemiology; Folkhälsa; epidemiologi;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to contribute to our understanding of health care utilisation and its determinants in developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. This is done by explicitly focusing on health care expenditures and its determinants as well as the choice to seek health care to cure the illness. LÄS MER