Decentralization has in recent decades become a common concept in public policy making especially in developing countries. The concept, defined here as the transfer of functions, responsibilities and financial resources to lower levels of government, is further expected to have a positive effect on a country´s development process by reducing the inefficiency associated with a centralized form of g

Prostitution as a construction - The social worker in the tension between society and the individual Discussions about prostitution seems to be of large interest for different feminist groups. The main discussions are about whether people sell sex as a result of free will, or if prostitution is a part of patriarchal structures, and that people selling sex, have been forced to do so in one way, or

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur den svenska rättsutvecklingen, kring vad som anses vara tillåten särbehandling på grund av ålder, förhåller sig till den rättspraxis som har skapats av EU-domstolen med bakgrund av direktiv 2000/78/EU och den allmänna principen om förbud mot diskriminering på grund av ålder. Uppsatsen syftar även till att applicera Anna Christensens teori om normativa The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the development in Swedish law, as to what is considered to be a permissible difference in treatment on grounds of age, relates to the case law developed by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the view of Directive 2000/78/EU and the general principle of non-discrimination in respect of age. The secondary purpose of this thesis is to apply the

The purpose of this thesis was to explore the way the concept of family is defined in the legislation on family-related migration in Sweden and what implications this definition have for the applicants, for family-related migration and for the view on family in Sweden. The empirical material consisted of five individual, semi-structured interviews with officials working with cases concerning famil

The aim of this study was to explore the eviction process from a cooperation perspective and how a community in a welfare state works with households in risk of eviction, that not already were in the social system regarding to addiction- and medical problems. The eviction process with an outcome leading to households losing their homes is in its organization according to Swedish laws, a process t

The aim of this study was to, through qualitative interviews, look at the roles of qualified mentors of teenagers with social problems such as criminality and addiction. The idea of qualified mentorship is quite new and has only been practiced in Sweden for a few years, which is why we thought it would be interesting to see how the work of the mentors have been conducted in the social service orga

Author: Barbro Liljegren Title: Importance of communication for long-term unemployed people with ADHD Supervisor: Yoshiko Boregren - Matsui Assessor: Hans Swärd With a high unemployment a more selective labormarket follows and it always remains a group of long-term unemployed during such circumstances. The aim with this essay was to examine the importance of communication for them who are longterm

I takt med att medierna blir alltmer styrande för vår omvärldsorientering liksom för opinionsbildning och beslutsfattande på olika samhällsnivåer, skapar förändringar inom medieteknik och mediestrukturerna förutsättningar för att påverka, manipulera eller skapa informationsinnehåll i syfte att styra opinion, känslor, beteenden och beslutsfattande. Denna studie fokuserar på användarskapade nyhetsme

Information and communication technologies have acquired contemporary prominence and are being introduced as new and technologically innovative devices for rapid African development, becoming key cornerstones of the development assistance interventions of the European Union and the G8. But the Dot Force Initiative of the G8 and the various ICT for development programmes of the EU display a moderni

The aim of this study was to take part of the knowledges and experiences authorised psychotherapists working with cognitive behaviortherapy have when it comes to create and maintain mental and physical health in their own lifes. The participants included 12 authorised psychotherapists all working within the private sector, 7 men and 5 women. The result from the semistructured interviews showed tha

Despite being small-size and compact country – with only 200 kilometers stretch from far East to West – the economy of Armenia faces significant spatial differentiation in income levels and is characterized by high concentrations of population, economic and business activities in the capital city with peripheral regions lagging behind economic activity and wages. By using the data on monthly avera

This paper examines the dynamics between foreign direct investment and economic growth. As scientific literature fails to provide common conclusion about FDI’s effect on host economy, investigation of single country can reveal the new aspects. Moreover, the contribution to literature of transition economies is made by choosing Czech Republic and Lithuania. Econometric analysis is employed in order

This thesis is a critical feminist analysis of the discourse of the Swedish populist radical right party the Sweden Democrats, focusing axes of social differences, power relations and emotions. Through a theoretical framework consisting of intersectional feminist theory and a methodological framework consisting of intersectionality and critical discourse analysis, selected empirical material from

In this study, the Female Labour Force Participation rate in Turkey between 1988 and 2008 is investigated. The main research was carried out by support of basic labour supply theories such as the Becker household model, the Gronau model and the u-shape hypothesis. Turkey is not a fully developed country which is why those theories are of fundamental importance to analyze the determinant factors of

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka vilka makroekonomiska faktorer som påverkar råvarupriserna. För studien används två välkända råvaruprisindex, CRB Index och S&P GSCI Index. Perioden för undersökningen sträcker sig från 1973-01 till och med 2010-04 och observationerna är månadsvisa. Tidigare forskning har visat att industriproduktion, räntan, US-dollarns växelkurs samt penningmängd ä

Using household level data from the Survey on the Status of Women and Fertility provided by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Population Studies Centre of University of Pennsylvania, the purpose of this thesis is to investigate the determinants of women’s empowerment and the presence of gender-related constraints within the household in rural India. Households from two states of different demogra

The aim and purpose of this study has been to examine how Swedish media portrays homeless people. This essay will explain my conclusions of how five Swedish newspapers, morning and evening press, describes homeless people. The articles I have chosen are from the largest newspapers and they are all published during a four month period of 2010. I have used Norman Faiclough´s model for a critical dis

Hur bedrivs pedagogisk utomhusaktivitet som främjar barnets intres-se och vilja att lära? Hur påverkar det utomhuspedagogiska utveck-lings arbetet förskolebarnens lärande? Detta är frågor som besvaras i denna uppsats. Avhandlingen tar upp ett försök att utveckla verk-samheten för barnen vid en förskola i södra Sverige i enlighet med det som föreskrivs i Läroplan för förskolan (Utbildningsdeparte-m