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The Business-Related and Logistical Challenges of Entering the African Solar Market. Illustrated on the Example of Solarity.
Widauer, Philipp ; Vinš, Marek (advisor) ; Kolář, Petr (referee)
The thesis evaluates the principal business-related and logistical opportunities and risks on the African solar market which is often associated to offer the last unexploited economic opportunities on this planet. For this purpose, the author examines three major African trade unions and reviews the strengths and weaknesses of each regional coalition. It becomes obvious that each respective trade bloc contains one dominant player, in this case Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. The practical section starts with an analysis of the appropriate entry market for the Czech solar wholesaler Solarity. Subsequently, the author identifies South Africa as the best fitting market primarily because of good infrastructure, high purchasing power and a similar business culture. The author recommends that Solarity should apply an exporting entry mode due to its size and inexperience on the African market. Secondary research, first-hand experience and close cooperation with Solarity support the author in his final conclusions.
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The internal political development in Kenya since 90s of the 20. century
Nováková, Martina ; Kochan, Jan (advisor) ; Pavlicová, Vendula (referee)
This bachelor thesis provides information about the internal political development of Kenya with an emphasis on the period after the Cold War. The first part of the paper introduces the democratic development of the Sub-saharan Africa since 90s of the 20.century and the conditions influencing democratization. The second chapter focuses on Kenya and its internal political development and explains historical connections and apply the conditions of democratization on Kenya. The third part is dedicated to 2 most important events occured in the last decade - presidential elections held in 2007 and new constitution of kenya since 2010. The last chapter describes current state of the democracy in Kenya and illustrates its future internal political development.
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Kenya - development and current situation, problems and perspectives
Stonawská, Martina ; Jeníček, Vladimír (advisor) ; Vošta, Milan (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to describe historical development of Kenya, analyze its current socioeconomic and political situation and characterize major problems and comparative advantages, which are crucial for its future development. The main contribution of the thesis are my own findings and experience gained during cultural internship in Kenya. The first chapter describes historical development from the beginning of the first settlement on its territory to post colonial era. The second part focuses on demographic indicators, sectorial economic structure, development of macroeconomic indicators in the context of east Africa, political situation and on governmental program called Vision 2030. The last part characterizes key Kenyan advantages and problems with focus on tourism, education and political and religious conflicts. The thesis is closed with future economic prognoses for Kenya.
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The issue of slums and its possible solutions (the example of Kenya)
Faltisová, Tereza ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; Jeníček, Vladimír (referee)
This thesis is focused on the elimination of slums in Kenya. It is currently facing a huge challenge - improving the quality of life of slum dwellers. Despite the large amount of efforts developed to promote the slums in Kenya, the situation remains problematic and local slums has already grown to such proportions that it was not easy efficient and sustainable. Thesis is divided into three subsequent chapters. The first chapter focuses on the economic, political and social situation in Kenya. In the second chapter I explain term slum, it's history, the life of slum dwellers and I also think about causes of their origin and subsequent dynamic urban sprawl. The third chapter is focused on the actual Kenyan slums and projects dedicated to tackle the challenges of their elimination. My goal is to identify the causes that lead to the extension of slums. Further I want to analyze how the issue of slums in Kenya is solved and whether these projects are effective and sustainable.
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Trade with selected commodities with focus on fair trade
Pokorná, Iveta ; Jiránková, Martina (advisor) ; Pavlík, Petr (referee)
Using the example of three commodities and three countries, the purpose of the thesis "Trade with selected commodities with focus on fair trade" is to analyse a chosen commodity market in different states. Focusing on developing countries, the work aims to confirm the validity of theoretical models of the international trade. Moreover, extra attention is paid to the alternative concept of fair trade. The thesis is divided into four chapters with the first giving the theoretical basis for the consequential analysis. The second chapter deals with the fair trade movement, the third part examines the concrete industry in the particular country, and the last chapter studies the consequences of fair trade on producers in the Sub-Saharan region.
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Adoption of African children at a distance in the Czech Republic
ŽÍLOVÁ, Barbora
The thesis deals with the issue of adoptions of African children at a distance in the Czech Republic and ways to participate in this humanitarian activities. Is focuses on the conditions of one of the possible forms of aid to children in poor countries around the world and in African States, Kenya and Guinea. Presented is the situation of children in selected countries from the perspective of poverty, illiteracy and disease (AIDS/HIV). Furthermore, the conditions of adoption of children at a distance, what does that mean for the "adoptive parents" in the Czech Republic and what benefit it has for the child in Guinea and Kenya. What are the possible positive and negative aspects of the possible adoption of African children. Presented will be non-governmental organization "Humanist Center Dialog" and "Humanist Center Narovinu". Their activity over the years, interviews with coordinators, and the "adoptive parents". Mentioned will also be their other activities, such as the World March for Peace and Nonviolence, ball Africa, etc. Using interviews with coordinators center and the "adoptive parents" will do an analysis of interviews with the literature. The conclusion is that the positive aspects clearly outweigh the negative and adoptions at a distance makes sense.
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Modeling Kenya
Auda, O. ; Bečičková, H. ; Cincibuch, M. ; Čižmár, P. ; Hřebíček, H. ; Janjgava, Batlome ; Kameník, O. ; Katreniaková, D. ; Kejak, Michal ; Lamazoshvili, Beka ; Lukáč, J. ; Machala, J. ; Menkyna, Robert ; Musil, K. ; Rasulova, Khanifakhon ; Remo, A. ; Vávra, D. ; Vlček, J. ; Zemčík, Petr
The report has three chapters. Chapter 1 summarizes the main features of the Kenyan economy relevant for building the FPAS. Chapter 2 presents the structural macroeconomic model and its properties captured by the decompositions of variances of the model’s variables in terms of the model shocks and by its impulse-response functions. This chapter also describes Bayesian vector autoregressions used for the near-term forecasting. Chapter 3 evaluates how the models perform empirically. The forecasting power is assessed both in the sample and by using an out-of-the-sample comparison with the standard random-walk benchmark. We conclude that the FPAS performs satisfactorily in this comparison.
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Flower production in the developing world: the case of Kenya
Lomozová, Kateřina ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; De Castro, Tereza (referee)
The thesis examines the Kenya's cut-flower industry in the wider context of global commodity networks. The Kenya's floriculture sector as a part of these networks has been influenced by notions of environmental and social responsibility in the past two decades. The first part of the thesis describes floriculture in Kenya and the cut flower supply chain. The second half analyses current ethical trading practice in the flower industry in Kenya. In this respect codes of conduct which embody notions of responsible business in practice are discussed here. In view of the fact that codes can't guarantee adequate working conditions to flower farm workers in many cases the thesis tries to explain why this concept of ethical trade failed.
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The road to independence and democratization in Kenya and development in the 21st century
Dejmková, Kamila ; Volenec, Otakar (advisor) ; Kochan, Jan (referee)
The aim of my Thesis is to analyze the way how Kenya gained independence, how the process of democratization had conducted and the development in the 21th century. The reason for the focus on Kenya is that it is a country which I am interested in and I want to get the new information. The work is divided into five chapters. The first chapter gives information about the current economic, geographic, demographic and political situation in the country. The second chapter focuses on the historical development till 1944. Includes description of the oldest inhabitants of the planet Earth, the original inhabitants of the country, settlers and colonizers. Year 1944 is chosen deliberately, this is the year when first Kenya had been elected to the National Assembly. The third chapter deals with the situation in the country until 1963, when the country was granted independence. This chapter deals with the rebellion Mau - Mau, congresses at which was discussed the constitution of an independent country, important personal proces sof independence - the first and the second president Jomo Kennyat and Daniel Arap Moi's regime. The fourth chapter gives information about the process of democratization. Here I describe how the process of democratization in Kenya had conducted and all the things that happened in the country since independence. The fifth chapter seeks to answer the question of why we can not say that Kenya is a democratic state. Describe here the notion of tribalism, which has a major impact on what is happening in the country. The members of the nation are loyal to their ethnicity in any case, and therefore it is not possible to develop democracy in the country in the literal sense.
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International Taxation from the Employment point-of-view
Patková, Gabriela ; Kozlová, Taťána (advisor) ; Opálková, Jindřiška (referee)
The thesis deals with the topic of the international taxation for Czech employees working abroad. It describes and compares the issue of the international taxation of taxpayer's income in the selected countries - the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Germany and Kenya. This countries has been selected on purpose, for better understanding and complex demonstration of the topic in the practical part of this thesis. The practical part consists of the determination of the tax residency, selection of the method for avoiding double taxation and examples to illustrate how to calculate taxes.
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