Search results for "VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Samfunnsgeografi: 290"
showing 10 items of 12 documents
An exploration of the relationship between higher education and human development
2007
Master's Thesis in Development Management - Agder University College, 2007 The apartheid regime in South Africa faced its end in 1994, but its repercussions are still valid for non-white as well as white South Africans. Almost 50 years of systemised discrimination of the non-white populations have set human equity and equality back in most spheres of the public society. The education sector is no exception. Education and higher education in particular is proclaimed an important mean for sustainable development. Higher education is assumed to have positive correlations with economic growth, better health, and employment possibilities. The objectives of my research is to explore the state of …
Policy to support digitalisation of industries in various regional settings. A conceptual discussion
2022
The purpose of the article is to analyse regions’ varying preconditions for digitalisation of industry and, on that basis, discuss regionally tailored policy strategies to stimulate digitalisation. Building on both regional innovation system and asset modification approaches, the authors suggest a theoretical framework that identifies regions’ potential for digitalisation from their stock of relevant assets at the firm and innovation system level. The analysis identifies four types of regions with different preconditions for supporting digitalisation of industries. This in turn provides the foundation for a discussion of the role of actor-based and system-based policy strategies to support …
The emergence of new industries at the regional level: alignment of organizational and regional industrial culture
2021
This article provides insights into how and where new industries emerge and grow through theoretical reasoning and the advancement of relevant arguments through empirical examples from industry emergence in two Norwegian regions: the establishment of the boatbuilding and the electronics industry in Arendal; and the cancer medicine and educational technology industry in Oslo. The article focuses on culture as an important asset for new industry emergence. We argue that industry emergence is supported if organizational culture in emerging industries and existing or altered regional industrial culture become aligned. The four industry cases demonstrate how in some situations industries emerge …
Local Livelihoods and the Bujagali Hydro-Power Dam, Uganda
2007
Master's Thesis in Development Management - Agder University College, 2007 Previous experience with dams shows that the local population carry a high proportion of the burden related to such projects. This paper intends to investigate the risks of impoverishment among the project-affected people in the resettled and downstream settlements who are in the fishing or agriculture sectors. Earlier empirical research provided the paper with a framework to build the data collection and to analyse the findings together with the following two models: The Impoverishment Risks and Reconstruction model and the Sustainable Livelihoods approach. The first one provided the research with concrete indicator…
Livelihood Strategies in a Context of Chronic Conflict - The Case of Kapelebyong Sub-County, Eastern Uganda
2007
Master's Thesis in Development Management - Agder University College, 2007 The livelihoods of people in Kapelebyong Sub-County in Eastern Uganda have been severely affected by insecurity during the last 27 years. This thesis assesses the livelihood strategies currently employed by Internally Displaced Persons in three camps in the sub county, and the effects of insecurity on the livelihood strategies that people pursue. Further, it looks at the environmental and sociocultural consequences of the insecurity and encampment, with particular emphasis on gender. Lastly, the study assesses the relationship between the livelihood strategies employed by the IDPs and the interventions by NGOs and go…
Socio-economic impact of foreign remittances on households : a case study of Rawalpindi, Pakistan
2017
Master's thesis Development management UT503 - University of Agder 2017 The current study explores the socio-economic impact of foreign remittances on households. The main objectives of the study were to explore that how remittances have affected the recipient households and also that in what way it has affected women’s empowerment. The study was also intended to explore the motives behind migration and analyze the consumption and expenditure patterns of the recipient households. Quantitative research method was being used. Methodology used for this research was case-study. The data was collected by using structured questionnaires as research tool. The sample was constituted of 200 responde…
The Role of Microfinance in the Empowerment of Women - An Example of Sinapi Aba Trust, Offinso Branch-Ghana
2007
Master's Thesis in Development Management - Agder University College, 2007 Disempowerment among women due to certain cultural practices has been one of the main barriers to development in developing countries. It is a problem that developing countries governments cannot solve alone because of its financial implications. This as a matter of fact has necessitated the private sector or non governmental organizations to intervene in solving this problem. One of the means found to be effective is the use of microfinance and it is believed that with microfinance women can achieve some level of empowerment in their lives. The study aims at finding out whether there is a possible causal relationshi…
Field analysis of industrial development in a peripheral region of Norway
2022
The paper explores how industrial development can occur in a peripheral region through the gradual development of strategic coherence between organisations, materiality, and agency. In a longitudinal case study of how the mechatronics industry became a main area for regional development spanning 50 years in the region of Agder in Norway, the authors have followed how national and regional innmovation policies, individual actors, and organisational strategies eventually flow together and influence organisations and firms to collaborate towards new and shared aims. In the paper, the authors perform field theory analysis, with emphasis on the significance of the development of reciprocal relat…
Examining Factors Prompting Microfinance Clients’ Dropout The case of SEDA and PTF in Morogoro Municipality in Tanzania
2007
Master's Thesis in Development Management - Agder University College, 2007 This study examines factors prompting clients’ dropout in two microfinance institutions: SEDA and PTF in Morogoro Municipality in Tanzania. The study used the sample of about 136 respondents, where 68 respondents came from each institution. The sample was composed of various subgroups of clients such as men and women, current clients and dropouts, old and young clients. The sample was selected using the stratified purposeful sampling procedure. Data were collected using one main method (semistructured interview) which was supplemented by document analysis. The study has grouped dropout factors under six categories: o…
Collective actions for empowerment and poverty reduction in rural Chiapas, Mexico
2007
Master's Thesis in Development Management - Agder University College, 2007 The present thesis is an investigation of rural community development in the Venustiano Carranza Province of Chiapas, Mexico. The objectives have been to analyze people’s experiences of collective work, and how this work, the social capital formation and access to capacity building courses might be leading to individual empowerment in the rural communities. The thesis begins with an introduction to the study area and an outline of the theories of alternative development and community approaches, and a presentation of the theories of empowerment, social capital and collective actions. It is argued that developing the …