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As the global economy expands, international carriage of goods is playing a more and more important role all over the world. Interdependence of shipping with other commercial activities including insurance is one of the features of international carriage of goods. In the present international business climate, insurance contract is an effective method through which one recovers losses from underwr

Tullförordning 1383/2004 ger tullen befogenhet att beslagta varumärkesförfalskade varor som kommer in, respektive lämnar, den Europeiska Unionen. Förordningen är tillämplig på i stort sett alla varuslag och oavsett vilken tullstatus de har. Genom att sätta varor under ett tullförfarande som kallas transit beläggs dessa varor inte med importavgifter eller tullar förrän de ankommer och deklareras viCustoms Regulation (EC) No 1383/2004 allows Customs to seize counterfeit goods entering or leaving the European Union's borders. It is applicable to almost any type of goods, whatever customs status they have. Transit is a customs procedure used to facilitate trade, meaning that goods are not subject to import charges and duties until they arrive and cleared at the final destination. However,

In the field of development economics corruption is considered a major obstacle to economic development. When opportunities to abuse power for self-interest are widespread, inequalities may become reinforced and democratic and economic development will be undermined. Empirical studies have found a negative relationship between gender and corruption implying that increased female participation lowe

Using quarterly data on 55 UK domiciled companies within the FTSE100 collected from DataStream database covering the period 1991-2009, we investigate which factors are distinguished between financially successful and less successful companies. In this study, portfolio analysis and OLS regression were performed upon the theoretical concepts of financial variables. Financial success is measured by a

With the perception from literature that the partial concepts within SRHR (Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) Sexual Health (SH); Reproductive Health (RH); Sexual Rights (SR); and Reproductive Rights (RR) where used more or less interchangeably and to an uneven frequency, my aim for this paper was twofold – to find the distinctions between the partial concepts and through framing theory su

The Family International is a Christian new religious movement founded in 1968. The movement has a history of frequent organizational changes, partly due to its theologically founded belief in continuous prophecy. The latest organizational change, the Reboot, was implemented in September 2010. This paper aims to introduce the Reboot and show how changes in social boundaries are perceived by memb

The number of companies that are discovering the benefits of having a process-oriented mindset is continually increasing. But moving from having a strict functional-oriented mindset to becoming more process-oriented does not happen over night. The road of transformation is long and many challenges are faced on the way. This thesis focuses on the question of how companies should approach a transfor

Datorspel är idag en mångmiljardbransch och den fortsätter att växa, men tyvärr har den grafiska utvecklingen i stor utsträckning lämnat synskadade utanför. Känselgränssnitt erbjuder en fascinerande form av interaktion med virtuella världar. Framförallt gör dessa gränssnitt det lättare för synskadade att tillgodogöra sig virtuella miljöer. I takt med att nya, mer avancerade gränssnitt når konsumen

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Global competition, an increased focus on market requirements, advances in information and communication technology as well as in international freight systems, are some factors that have caused global companies to review their distribution networks. Upon assessing Ericsson’s distribution network, a need for transit terminals has been acknowledged by the company. Thes

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There is increased pressure on the supply chain to drive improvements to support overall business performance. Previously, the overall supply chain performance has lacked the right set of performance measures and has not been monitored, with fragmented improvement projects as the result.

To address this, a supply chain Balanced Scorecard has been devised for global u

Reducing and eradicating poverty is one of humanities pressing challenges, one that the UN Commission of Legal Empowerment of the Poor has taken on. This thesis describes the prevailing poverty of South African farm workers and dwellers and explores why the empowerment efforts that have been made have not lifted them out of poverty. The results of this study are contrasted with the results of the

This paper studies the inclusion of the indigenous population in the Guatemalan democratisation process. The indigenous population have throughout the history of Guatemala always suffered from exclusion. Thus it is interesting to study if there have been any improvements in their situation since the signing of the peace agreement in 1996. The base of our paper is Donna Le Van Cott’s article, Build

The purpose of this paper is to examine if pornography can constitute a human rights violation. This will be done analysing arguments for and against pornography in relation to human rights conventions and a general human rights perspective. The study concludes that pornography from a convention perspective is a social pattern to be modified, while the human rights perspective proposes pornography

The externalization of migration policies, also known as the externalization of border control, has emerged as an increasingly popular way for more developed countries to tackle the issue of irregular migration. In the Mediterranean region, increasing migration from North Africa to Europe is closely associated with the concept of security – security for the countries that must face constant flows