Search for dissertations about: "used clothes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 swedish dissertations containing the words used clothes.

2. 1. Used Clothes and Social Goods: Two economic problems

   Author : Rick Wicks; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Paper 1: used clothes; second-hand; imports; exports; LDCs; development aid.Paper 2: altruism; caring behavior; club goods; communitarian; communities; complete markets; complete contracting; economic ideology; economic theology; general equilibrium theory; inherent non-marketability; methodological individualism; neoclassical economics; rational choice; religion of the market; rhetoric of economics; separability; social capital; social economics; social environment; social goods; social institutions; social realm; social values; social wealth; social welfare; three realms; universal market;

   Abstract : PAPER 1: Used Clothes As Development Aid: The political economy of rags Report of a study for Sida (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) by Rick Wicks and Arne Bigsten Abstract: Should Swedish used-clothes exports continue to be subsidized as development aid? Theoretical analysis and review of empirical evidence regarding effects of both commercial and charitable (subsidized) used-clothes imports in LDCs. Includes statistics on the world used-clothes trade, including 127 gross used-clothes-exporting countries and 181 importing countries in 1990 (with values, weights, average prices, and weights-per-capita), and some specifics of U. READ MORE

4. 2. The Place of Conventional Economics in a World with Communities and Social Goods

   Author : Rick Wicks; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; assumptions; communities; general equilibrium; meta-economic efficiency; relational models theory; separability; social capital; social goods; social sphere; three spheres; universal markets; used clothes;

   Abstract : Paper 1: Should Deliveries of Used Clothes to LDCs Be Supported? This is the journal version of a study of the worldwide used-clothes trade – with focus on Sweden’s participation in it – undertaken for Sida (the Swedish foreign aid agency). We looked at both theoretical and empirical effects of the commercial used-clothes trade, and at the effects of subsidizing it. READ MORE

5. 3. 'The Emperor's New Clothes' Recordkeeping in a New Context

   Author : Maria Kallberg; Karen Anderson; Göran Samuelsson; Elizabeth Shepherd; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; recordkeeping; e-government; recordkeeping awareness; information management; continuum; public archive; archivists; registrars; local government; Sweden;

   Abstract : This thesis examines if and how information capture and documentation practices and the function of the public archive are changing in relation to archival concepts in contemporary administrative settings, as a result of e-government strategic development. The study aims for a holistic approach from the beginning of the life of the records to their long-term preservation. READ MORE

6. 4. Circles of Value : A Study of Working Lives of Informal Sector Traders in Delhi, India

   Author : Riya Raphael; Genusvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; theories of value; pheriwale; informal economy; informal sector; recycle traders; Dalit feminism; intersectionality; caste; pheri; Social reproduction; waiting; relational autonomy; Delhi; India;

   Abstract : This study revolves around the working lives of pheriwale, a group of self-employed traders within India’s vast informal economy. Pheriwale have been trading in Delhi for nearly a century and are involved in the second-hand clothing trade. READ MORE

7. 5. Treatment of Textile Wastewater by Combining Biological Processes and Advanced Oxidation

   Author : Marisa Punzi; Bioteknik; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Azo dye; textile wastewater; biological treatment; biofilm; microbial community; DGGE; green algae; photo-Fenton; ozone; toxicity; mutagenicity; LCA; cost analysis;

   Abstract : Treatment of textile wastewater is challenging because the water contains toxic compounds that have low biodegradability. Dyes, detergents, surfactants, biocides and more are used to improve the textile process and to make the clothes resistant to physical, chemical and biological agents. READ MORE