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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The United Nations Guiding Principles on business and human rights, unanimously endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011 represent a watershed in the business and human rights debate. The Guiding Principles are based ...
Middle-Class Perceptions of Poverty in Cairo Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
This thesis looks at middle-class Cairenese perceptions of poverty in the capital of Egypt, Cairo. Moreover, it discusses the difficulty of defining class in Egypt. The aim of this study has been to find out how middle-class ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Throughout the last decade the Norwegian development assistance for health has gone through some profound changes, both regarding implementation and organization. Norwegian development assistance for health has been known ...
Exploring the capacities of cash transfers to improve food security among India s urban poor Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
A key player in the world economy, India s national economy today allows for a sustainable expansion and significant improvements in social aspects. This remarkable economic growth has however failed to include and benefit ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The focus of this thesis is to explore how Burundian coffee producers and traders perceive direct trade influences on producer’s wellbeing. Direct trade in coffee is still a newly establishing approach to the coffee trade ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This study investigates how employees of development and humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) form judgments about risks that may affect their organization, its process, activities and objectives. The thesis ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2006)
Siden 1999 har det i Norge vært et politisk mål å styrke arbeidet med å effektivisere den nasjonale energibruken. Disse målene kan knyttes til “energiomlegging” som da både dekker økt bruk av nye, fornybare energikilder – ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
This thesis focuses attention on whether public finances to the private sector can deliver public goals, explicitly development, in foreign aid interventions. I intend to do that by analyzing the Norwegian Investment Fund ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis is a study on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Norwegian Primary Schooling.It takes two different school types, State Schools and Steiner Schools, as to make this broad topic easier accessible. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
This study takes a closer look at a Norwegian establishment of second homes in the area of Natal in Brazil. It sets out to answer how such settlements takes place in its context, compared to how it was seen in its initial ...