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Social Policy of EU and comparing models of chosen countries
Slavíčková, Aneta ; Abrhám, Josef (advisor) ; Jiránková, Martina (referee)
My thesis describes social policy of EU and compares social models of three countries - Germany, Denmark and Great Britain. I divided my work into five parts. In the first one I concentrate on history, tools and function of social policy. In other four parts I pay attention to employment policy, educational policy, pension systems and to poverty and social exclusion. In all these parts of social policy I compare activities of those three countries mentioned above.
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Africa and its future in the global economy
Buryan, Šimon ; Cihelková, Eva (advisor) ; Bič, Josef (referee)
The aim of this study is to evaluate current and future economic development of Africa. It is needed for an objective assessment to assess the historical context and development challenges that affect the development of the continent. The first chapter is focused on the socio-economic complex of the African states. The second chapter focuses on the obstacles of development. The third chapter focuses on contemporary factors that influence the development of Africa, including globalization and regionalism.
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Fair Trade: the Fair Trade Organization
Castro Chaparro, Enrique Adolfo ; Štěrbová, Ludmila (advisor) ; Zamykalová, Miroslava (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to clarify concepts regarding the Fair Trade system and to contribute to an objective debate about the viability of the model and its real effects. It analyses history and development of trade; trade institutions and major players, development theories and namely concepts of Free Trade and Fair Trade and the differences between them. It is not fair to blame the market for the poverty and hardships of the poor; but it is also unwise to expect things to be fixed alone. Fair Trade is an alternative; a choice. It must not be taken as something unquestionably beneficial, but it must not be demonized either: a sincere debate is necessary to assess the effectiveness of Fair Trade and other forms of help to combat poverty.
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Least Developed Countries (LDC), the problems of economic development and their solutions.
Lukeš, Jakub ; Ševčíková, Michaela (advisor) ; Kotýnková, Magdalena (referee)
The goal of this paper is to analyze current problems and economic development of the Least Developed Countries in South Asia. As an example I will be using the Federative Democratic Republic of Nepal. As another goal of this work I will specify characteristic problems of Nepal. I will focus on the international help of OSN and strategies of UNCTAD to improve the situation in this region. Next step will be integration of Nepal into international trade. The main goal of this work is to point out why is Nepal one of the poorest countries. Consequently I will try to propose possible alternatives to solve the current situation which will be effective.
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Fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals in Nepal
Koliševová, Lucie ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; Nováková, Jana (referee)
This bachelor thesis investigates whether and how the Millennium Development Goals are being fulfilled in one of the world's least developed countries, in Nepal. Its objective is to monitor the progress of several indicators from 1990 until now and to evaluate how Nepal, ten years after signing the Millennium Declaration, manages to fulfil the Goals (and the relevant targets) and whether is on track to meet its commitment. The first part briefly characterizes Nepal itself, the second part describes the Millennium Development Goals and the third part of the thesis is devoted to each of the Goals in detail, evaluates the progress achieved, the measures taken and the steps that have eventually contributed to that progress.
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Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries
Prchal, Tomáš ; Durdisová, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Kubelková, Karina (referee)
Poverty is a serious problem of the contemporary world. According to the World Bank statistics more than 1/6 of the world's population suffers from extreme poverty (with daily income less than 1,25 dollars). The main tool of poverty alleviation is the official development aid, which is based on transfers of funds from developed to developing countries. The aim of this thesis is to assess, by how far has the development aid been succesful in reducing the poverty. The analysis of two regions -- East Asia and Sub-saharan Afrika -- will serve this purpose. In East Asia the poverty was reduced by 750 million of people within 25 years. However, the role of development aid was found to be negligible. Sub-saharan Africa, despite large volumes of aid, didn't experience any decrease in poverty incidence at all. The analysis implied that official development aid is not a way out of poverty. The solution is to integrate developing countries to international trade and to follow convenient economic policies establishing an environment favourable to business and foreign direct investments.
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Multi-criteria evaluation of living standards of households, indices of material deprivation
Schenková, Tereza ; Zelený, Martin (advisor) ; Dvornáková, Táňa (referee)
The thesis on the topic "Multi-criteria evaluation of living standards of households, indices of material deprivation" compares two approaches to the measurement of poverty and social exclusion. The first is an absolute concept, which is based on the measurement of the material deprivation. The second is a relative concept, which is currently in the European Union represented by the indicator "at-risk-of-poverty rate". Before being applied on the real data from 2008 for the Czech Republic, both concepts are theoretically described and explained. The indicator "at-risk-of-poverty rate" is calculated based on the results of a survey on the income and the living conditions of the Czech population. The material deprivation is then analysed for different groups of people of the Czech population and the indices of material deprivation are calculated. In the final section, the European Union member countries are compared according to these two concepts.
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Historical aspects of globalization and its selected consequences
Bláhová, Veronika ; Sirůček, Pavel (advisor) ; Džbánková, Zuzana (referee)
At first, the study on "Historical aspects of globalization and its selected consequences", is focused on various approaches to the definition of globalization, which differs in different branches of science. The second part deal with the evolution of the proces of globalization in connection with important historical events. In selected consequences are included food and population problems. These issues are viewed from two perspectives, in particular, from perspective of poor countries and from perspective of developed countries. This division is chosen because the characteristics of such problems in distant countries like this are absolutely different.
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Business solution of poverty
Chodorová, Monika ; Mládek, Josef (advisor) ; Chalupníček, Pavel (referee)
The poverty is the common part of the human history. The majority of the world had to face the poverty during the time period and it was neccessary long time period for activation. Some countries solved the problem of poverty faster than others. Unfortunately, there are some countries, which still have to face poverty, espicially countries in Asia, South-America Countries and African countries. The goal of this study is explanation, why we have to face poverty in the 21 th century. This study tell us which factors help to find solution of the problem with poverty. I would like to focus espicially to poverty and providing education in African countries. The part of this study will be explanation how the education systems are created. I would like to get some information about the investment in education.
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Economic globalization (with focus on economic growth in BRICs)
Semerád, Přemysl ; Sirůček, Pavel (advisor) ; Džbánková, Zuzana (referee)
Main goal of this study is to objectively describe the ongoing economic globalization. First chapter describes main attributes and some of the factors which cause globalization. Study shows some of the latest statistics from World Bank. Big focus is devoted to some effects of globalization like decreasing poverty, raising inequality, emergence of worldwide capital markets, increased importance of multinational corporations, or how globalization positively affects economic growth. Study also describes uncertain future of globalization, which is caused by ongoing economic crisis. The focus of this study is put on the economic development in the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China). These four countries are described as examples of the mentioned effects of globalization.
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