Search for dissertations about: "cooperatives"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 31 swedish dissertations containing the word cooperatives.

  2. 6. Ambiguous Hopes : An Ethnographic Study of Agricultural Modernisation in a Rwandan village

    Author : Anna Berglund; Socialantropologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Rwanda; poverty; cooperatives; subsistence agriculture; policy implementation;

    Abstract : Since 2006, Rwanda has been implementing policies to modernize the agricultural sector, with the aim of moving from small-scale subsistence farming to modern, market-oriented farming. Under these policies, small-scale farmers have been compelled to abandon their traditional farming practices and adapt to monocropping of state-approved crops on consolidated land. READ MORE

  4. 7. Political parties and welfare associations

    Author : Ingrid Grosse; Jonas Edlund; Apostolis Papakostas; Jonas Hinnfors; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : Sweden; Norway; Scandinavia; Third sector; Voluntary organisations; Non-profit organisations; Cooperatives; Welfare policies; Childcare; Housing; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Abstract : Scandinavian countries are usually assumed to be less disposed than other countries to involve associations as welfare producers. They are assumed to be so disinclined due to their strong statutory welfare involvement, which “crowds-out” associational welfare production; their ethnic, cultural and religious homogeneity, which leads to a lack of minority interests in associational welfare production; and to their strong working-class organisations, which are supposed to prefer statutory welfare solutions. READ MORE

  5. 8. Essays on agricultural and environmental policy

    Author : Thomas Jonsson; Thomas Aronsson; Panu Poutvaara; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; agricultural policy; political economy; income and commodity taxation; economic federation; environmental policy; lobbying; cooperatives; market power; policy cooperation; distortionary taxes; labor market; Nash game; Stackelberg game; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of a summary and four papers. The first two papers address political economy and indus-trial organization aspects of agricultural policy, and the last two international aspects of environmental policy. READ MORE

  6. 9. Essays on the Skill Premium

    Author : Klas Sandén; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Wage Inequality; Skill Premium; Human Capital; Occupational Choice; Cooperatives; Contracting Out; Outsourcing; Fragmentation; Technological Change; Market Power; Monopolistic Competition; Innovation; Risk; Uncertainty;

    Abstract : The thesis consists of three separate essays about wage inequality in industrialized countries. In the first essay, it is shown that an increased supply of high-skill workers can increase the wage rate and increase the relative wage of high-skill workers. READ MORE

  7. 10. Agricultural cooperatives and problems of transition : a study of organisational development problems in rural development

    Author : Christian Ike Onwuchekwa; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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