Search for dissertations about: "industrialization and development"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 52 swedish dissertations containing the words industrialization and development.
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1. Industrialization of Services : Technology and Routinization in the 21st Century
Abstract : Sweden has a long tradition of process improvements, productivity increments, waste reduction in manufacturing, continuing a mode of industrialization that helped achieve prosperity. With growing urban centers, mechanization of agriculture, outsourcings by manufacturing and the public sector with subsequent acquisitions, large service firms have appeared in an ever-growing service sector. READ MORE
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2. Gold, Coal and Iron : Essays on Industrialization and Economic Development
Abstract : Essay I: How does electricity provision affect female employment? In theory, electrical household appliances can save labor in domestic production and divert it to the market. However, the empirical evidence has been inconclusive. READ MORE
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3. Development constrained – Essays on land as a factor in nineteenth-century industrialization and trade
Abstract : This dissertation consists of an introductory chapter, four research essays and one essay that describes the collected dataset. The first essay examines how the balance of land embodied in British trade developed during the nineteenth century and provides the first all encompassing accounts on this topic. READ MORE
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4. The Industrialization Process in the Chinese Mirror - Continuity and change in transition from collective agriculture to market economy in China
Abstract : Abstract in UndeterminedThe dominant explanation for China's unprecendented rates of economic growth in the last three decades has regarded them as the consequence of the reform policies that, after Mao, the Chinese leaders embarked upon in 1978. The present study, in contrast, argues for continuity between the socialist period and the post-refrom era in China's economic course. READ MORE
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5. Why Firms Grow : The Roles of Institutions, Trade, and Technology during Swedish Industrialization
Abstract : Industrialization and the emergence of a manufacturing sector are generally perceived as key drivers for countries to see economic growth and increases in living standards. Only 200 years ago, most countries were relatively poor and had similarly low living standards. READ MORE
