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Impact of International Trade in Coffee on Producing Developping Countries
Bartůňková, Lenka ; Steinmetzová, Dana (advisor) ; Antal, Jarolím (referee)
In the second half of the 20th century many new subjects entered the coffee producing business attracted by high coffee prices on the regulated market. When the regulations were lifted in 1989 prices dropped to a 30 year minimum. Low prices now have a negative impact on small producers who cannot compete with large plantation production because they do not attain economies of scales as they are growing coffee on small plots using traditional methods. When thinking about solutions to the current situation, we must not forget that these small farmers often produce coffee of higher quality and more importantly that their fields are areas of high biodiversity taking up the function of dissappearing rainforests. International Coffee Organization looks for global solutions like imposing higher quality standards on traded coffee. Individual consumers can help resolve the situation by buying coffee from small farmers whose production techniques are helping to conserve biodiversity. Such coffee can be found under the labels Shade Grown or Organic. Fair Trade certificate does not tell us anything about environmental protection, it is however still better than the purchase of none certified coffee. In Fair Trade coffee usually has a country of origin. By purchasing that coffee consumer can promote coffee production in that particular country. Ethiopia is highly dependent on coffee. It is also coffee's original home, meaning that it is also home to wild coffee plants and coffee plants with genes that can not be found anywhere else. Wild coffee plants are often found in forests that are however dissappearing fast. For the future of coffee growing it is necessary to conserve the original coffee population for generations to come. By purchasing Ethiopian coffee the consumer helps support the whole sector and raise interest in protection of coffee forests.
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Ifluencing the Demographic Behavior of Chosen Inhabitant Groups by Social Benefits
Vlček, Petr ; Kotýnková, Magdalena (advisor) ; Sunega, Petr (referee)
This paper aimes to provide a multidimensional view on the topic of the sustainability of the social system in the long run. Psychology together with sociology indicate that the impact of genetic factors on the forming of an individual into a well-ordered member of society with a normal values is much smaller than the impact of the family and its social capital. Social system aspirates to motivate the needed ones to become financially independent again, but this simply does not work. On the other hand in the attempt to increase the household income especially the socially excluded households chose to change their characteristics in order to get the social benefits rather than to enter labour market. One of the most important and relatively easily changable characteristics in this context is the number of unprovided children in the family. Therefore to get a bigger amount of social benefits they have children. To proove the rationality of such behaviour the concept of the consumption unit is used. This concept quantifies the economies of scale in the common household. The result is that while in the typical family the income per consumption unit steadily decreases with the increasing number of children, in the family without any earnings this income approximatly doubles. The financial situation of the poor family improves with the number of children. This has an adverse effect on the society structure in the long run, because it encourages higher birth rate of the groups that do not contribute to the system. It is possible to lower the birth rate in the unfavourable families and increase it in the typical families by changing the rules of computing the benefits. It is necessary to keep the income per consumption unit independent from the number of children. This can be achieved for example by a tax abatement. It is also advisable to connect the social and retirement system in the manner that the amount of the retirement pension would be affected by the amount of money contributed to the system by the children of the retiree.
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Vietnam vo svetovom hospodárstve: História a súčasný stav
Saktor, Peter ; Jakš, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Konečný, Čestmír (referee)
Pred rokom 1986 patril Vietnam k najchudobnejším krajinám sveta, mnoho obyvateľov trpelo hladom a krajina bola závislá na zahraničnej humanitárnej pomoci. Vojnové konflikty s Francúzskom a USA mali pre hospodárstvo fatálne následky. Niektoré krajiny v regióne v 60. a 70. rokoch nastúpili na reformnú cestu a dnes sa v odbornej literatúre označujú ako ANIZ- ázijské novo industrializované zeme. Vietnam sa nemohol vydať rovnakou cestou, pretože sa musel najprv spamätať z problémov spôsobených vojnovými konfliktami.
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Energy dependency of the EU with focus on Russia
Braunová, Marie ; Vošta, Milan (advisor) ; Harmáček, Jaromír (referee)
The European Union is becoming increasingly dependent on energy imports. Especially oil and natural gas imports are rising as their production in Europe declines. The most important energy partner of the EU is Russia, which delivers the biggest volumes of oil and natural gas to european countries. The highest rate of energy dependency on Russia can be observed in eastern and central Europe, where diverzification of energy supplies is one of key issues. It is necessary to reduce the energy dependency on russian gas, but at the same time, it is important to build a stable partnership with Russia, which is striving to become a leader at the global energy market, where demand for fossil fuels is rapidly rising. Apart from searching alternative suppliers to russian natural gas in order to achieve higher energy independence, an important role could play alternative energy sources, energy savings or rebirth of nuclear energy.
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Czech Pension Funds´ Performance Analysis
Menčík, Tomáš ; Musílek, Petr (advisor) ; Paholok, Igor (referee)
This thesis aims to investigate pension funds'investment behavior in times of a capital markets crisis; to discuss actions taken and changes of an investment policy; and to point out legislative issues. Another topic is a discussion over the contribution of each investment tool to the portfolio performance, and a prediction of the investment policy of pension funds. An important part of this thesis is the analysis of the detailed portfolio of PF Stabilita. The outcome of this paper is not to predict a future developement of capital markets, although a broad prediction for each investment tool is made, but to investigate a reaction of pension funds to the 2008 capital markets turmoils.
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Analysis of factors affecting the oil market
Joneš, Pavel ; Jílková, Jiřina (advisor) ; Vojáček, Ondřej (referee)
Oil is currently one of the most used energy sources on earth because enters into almost all goods and services. A number of economy and households is dependent on oil. In recent years a trend in the oil market raises many questions. The scope of this diploma thesis is to identify and to analyze key factors influencing the oil market. The next aim is to predict future development of this market. The analysis is focused on the most important economic, geopolitical, environmental and technological factors affecting the oil market. Methodology of the thesis is based on the literature research and on the basic statistical methods to analyze the factors and estimate the future of the oil market.
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Information Society and the Internet
Bartušek, Pavel ; Rosický, Antonín (advisor) ; Brixí, Radim (referee)
Internet has an important role in the society. Internet is one of the most important factors to transmit and receive information. Information in electronic form has advantages and risks. The aim of this work is to describe the advantages and risks and recommend how to proceed in a given situation. In the first part we will work with demarcation of the importance of information and what information is. There is no a single view on information. Here we meet with the definitions of various disciplines. In the second part of the work is described the computerization of the pros and cons associated with that new approaches and technologies have brought. The aim of the computerization is to come to the emergence of the Internet and characterized the current information society in a few selected contexts, when the society is dependent on modern information networks and information.
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Financial analysis PKS MONT, joint stock company
Strnad, Jakub ; Kopkáně, Heřman (advisor) ; Neubauer, Edmund (referee)
The financial analysis of a company is a substantial instrument in the uncovering study of a financial health, credibility and ability to create the added value for the owners of the company and further partial indicators which are helpful for understanding of the present stage of the company. It may also concern the individual fluctuations and consequent results with their causes. The information capacity of the financial analysis depends to the certain extent on the used input data which we are going to use for the composition analysis. From the knowledge of this finding follows who is the beneficiary of the financial analysis or who will be the final user making decisions on the basis of this evidence. The financial analysis of PKS MONT, joint stock company was made through freely accessible data to the public, as they are published together with their update on the internet. Bearing in mind the importance of this project, which must meet the high standards in introducing it into the real situation together with providing the feedback to the already made decisions for executive directors of the particular company. Meanwhile, it was necessary to make more accurate these findings through the public data. The data correction itself could not take place without internal basic documents. The method of partial corrections has been determined on the basis of these documents. These partial corrections have led to volume eliminations which were a burden in the informational channel of the company. As the primary goal of this project was to work out the financial analysis for the need of the company management itself, it was the most suitable to choose such indicators, whose aptitudes would provide a comprehensible picture of the real situation. To meet this requirement four areas are going to be used: assessment of the property structure of the company including source coverage, the comparison of partial indicators with trends of market development and the declaration of following hypotheses, application of the modern indicators with the objective to find out the investor company potential together with meeting the owners` demands last but not least the determination of methodological procedures for the improvement of accounting records. Thanks to the methods mentioned above and with the help of the financial analysis, comprehensive insight has been reach on the company itself from the point of view of the individual within dynamic competitive environment having large potential in the coming future.
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Financial Analysis REMAK a.s.
Vojtek, Samuel ; Eysseltová, Sylvie (advisor) ; Vochozka, Marek (referee)
My bachelor paper points out the financial health of company Remak a.s. for time period 2003- 2007. It consists of metodical part, in which I present particular steps and methods of calculation in my paper. In analytical part I use these methods on the firm I have chosen. From the results of the calculations it is possible to find out that the firm is one of most modern and best functioned in region of Moravia and also on air conditioning market. Company was found in 1991 and during this age achieved such good results, that today it does not need almost any foreign financial recources.
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