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The UN 2030 agenda for sustainable development acknowledges the essential role of financial inclusion in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and reducing inequality. African countries have made substantial progress in economic development and financial inclusion over the last two decades, yet there is still considerable need for further development. Financial Technology (FinTech) is
This research critically examines the experiences of the pandemic for youths of the generation “i- Gen”. Concretely, the research focuses on the experiences revealed in qualitative interviews in comparison to existing research on precarity and youth studies, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the research is to analyze young people's stories through the theoretical lens of
The internet has brought about vast knowledge in the form of “data” to the 21st century. As a part of its digital single market strategy, the European commission has sought to develop a European data economy and consequently the regulation and allocation of data is becoming increasingly important. Both the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the Database Directive 96/9 (“DbD”) confer r
This thesis researches the Swedish conservative intellectual magazine Svensk Tidskrift and their view on Russia, between the years of 1915–1919. It further examines how the view changes over the years. The research also analyses the view on Russia in Svensk Tidskrift from a perspective of center-periphery. Sweden and Russia have a long relationship that goes way back to several centuries before, a
Since its announcement in 2013, China’s Belt and Road Initiative raised much interest of the scientists and practitioners. Even though much research has been carried out on this project, few attempts have been made to examine the benefits of the project to five Central Asian countries. This study aims to explore the effect of the Belt and Road Initiative on the changes of the export volume of Cent
In the development of Beijing’s old town: When the outdated housing facilities conflict with the needs of contemporary life, people use rude methods: Demolish the local traditional houses and rebuild the buildings to solve this problem. The replacement of traditional housing also means the disappearance of local culture. How old houses can be changed to meet the needs of contemporary people? How
The recent immigration crisis is a topic of interest for many researchers nowadays. Although refugees represent the biggest number of immigrants in Europe, researchers tend to comprehensively tackle immigrant entrepreneurship and neglect refugees' distinctiveness. This qualitative study explores the phenomenon of refugee entrepreneurship and its common challenges based on multiple case studies
This thesis poses structural and behavioural competition problems in digital markets in terms of core platforms services provided by the gatekeepers under the proposed Digital Markets Act by the European Commission, where such problems are the most evident. This thesis analyses whether existing competition and more sector-specific legal tools are functional to address these problems. Traditional l
I den här uppsatsen undersöks fyra svenska översättningar av Edgar Allan Poes novell ”The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839) ur ett stilistiskt perspektiv. Målet med undersökningen är dels att se hur källtexttrogen respektive översättning är, dels att beskriva de olika översättarstilarna. Översättningsanalysen föregås av en text- och stilanalys, i vilken novellens stilbärande drag exemplifieras oc
Purpose - The collection-delivery points in Sweden are the main delivery method and facilitates a growing volume of parcel deliveries from e-commerce. As the model has been implemented on such scale in the country, the negative externalities previously outlined in the literature can get magnified in the context of the Swedish consumers. It is important to gain a deeper understanding on every aspec
Humans are irrational. What happens when you disregard this fact? When we let only logic and reason be acceptable ways of life? Science is the reason behind most of our advances as a human race, and with this, it has pushed aside spirituality and, on a certain level, the room for fantasy and thought. As a consequence, we are bored, and we seek to satisfy our desire for adventures and dream
his study examines why it is so easy to over snack and how to use design to better control snack intake. The latest findings have shown the increase of snack consumption and the difficulties of controlling snack intake. Many studies have provided convincing findings to reduce snack/food intake after experiments, in the aspects of psychology, cognition, environment factors, interventions and other
The shrinking of kitchen spaces has blurred the boundary of cooking, especially for young renters in small spaces. After talking to friends who have lived with tiny kitchens, I realized that they sometimes prefer cooking with friends outside their kitchenette, or have to buy their own kitchen products to add to the poorly equipped kitchen. I want to facilitate this cooking pattern by designin
Havsnivån stiger till följd av den globala uppvärmningen. Fastigheter kommer att drabbas av översvämningar och stora fastighetsvärden kommer att påverkas. Länsförsäkringar beslutade 2018 att sluta försäkra nybyggnation av bostäder inom områden som löper risk för översvämning där länsstyrelsen har avrått från byggnation. Flera kommuner planerar för skydd av befintlig bebyggelse, men examensarbe
The coronavirus is a subject currently on everyone’s lips. The pandemic has not only made existing inequalities more profound, it has also further exposed vulnerabilities that have impacted women on several fronts. The purpose of this thesis is thus to investigate how women in the workforce are affected by working from home and to highlight reproductive labour, an area that the Swedish-Gender-Equa
This essay examines three examples of transmedia storytelling whitin children’s litterature and other media (tv shows, computer games etcetera). The three examples – Vi på Saltkråkan, Star Stable and Moomin – each offers unique backstories in which storytelling on multiple platforms has been successful. This study focuses on why the publishers and producers choose to adapt a story to different typ
The fear of a loss in competitive advantage due to increasing costs and prices is an argument often brought up against compliance to human rights and labour standards. On this basis, the present thesis is researching the association between compliance to labour standards and factory survival in the Cambodian garment sector. The latter is an important driver of industrialization in the country. At
In Sweden, the concept of gender equality is presented as a self-evident and self-explanatory collective goal that is rarely further examined or questioned. Based on the assumption that concepts of gender equality, supposedly self-evident, actually subsume different meanings, the aim of this study was to examine how political players and school authorities articulate the concept of gender equality
