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Millennium Development Goals
Urban, Petr ; Kapinusová, Jana (advisor) ; Kotýnková, Magdalena (referee)
The objective of my bachelor thesis is to judge problems of the third world countries with the emphasis on african continent. I will especially focus on economic and social problems of the countries. I will try to judge potential solving problems not only in economic way. I will also focus on political structure of the countries and its role in looking for reasons of poverty and I will try to find out how to prevent the consequences depend on political instability in the regions. I will try to give the answer what is the main function of international organisations, if the millennium development goals are realized and if the financial aid used on development projects is efficient.
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Present state and perspectives of fulfilling Millennium Development Goals in Africa
Nevěřilová, Naďa ; Stuchlíková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Němečková, Tereza (referee)
The objective of this bachelor thesis is to evaluate the Millenium Development Goals project -- its procedures and up to now effects. I would like to try to find out if it is truth that activities of UN within this project have no results, eventually I would try to identify a problem and suggest possible solutions. The evaluation of this project is reduced to two of the total number of eight goals and to the region of Sub-Saharan Africa. First part of this work describes a subject-matter and a purpose of this project. It is concerned with theme poverty and with a historical background of rise of problems with poverty in Sub-Saharan countries. Then there are described methods which UN uses for monitoring of reaching the defined goals. Ways of financing an assistance for developing countries are also described. Second part of the work is aimed at the first goal of the project which is: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. This part begins with adumbration of possible ways and methods of measuring and identifying poverty. Afterwards there is described and evaluated a state and a progress of fulfilling this goal. Perspectives of future progress are also adumbrated. Third part is concerned with the sixth goal of the evaluated project: combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. After an introduction to the issue, there is also considered a state and a progress of reaching the goal and a possible future progress is presented.
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Poverty in the developing world - selected impacts and solutions
Ťažká, Andrea ; Stuchlíková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Řehořová, Veronika (referee)
The thesis analyzes the problematic of poverty in the developing world. The first section defines poverty, its measurment and discusses the main impacts on the population of the developing world. It includes the three most important ones, namely hunger, bad health and illiteracy. The second section focuses on the Millennium Development Goals and their current level of fulfillment. Subsequently, it describes some possible policies of alleviating poverty that are conducted by the developed world, such as development aid, condonement of debt of developing countries and their integration into international trade.
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Left shift in LA and its cultural and historical context - the example of Bolivia
Novák, Ondřej ; Kochan, Jan (advisor) ; Jeníčková, Martina (referee)
During the period of 2005/2006 Latin America found itself in a situation historically unprecedented. Presidential election was held in twelve Latin American states as well as parliamentary elections in most of them. The left-wind parties and candidates won in most of the states. This result forces us to think about it. The subject and the goal of this bachelor thesis is hence the analysis of some factors which could have contributed to this left shift. The thesis is focused predominantly on the past and tries to elaborate historical and cultural aspects of factors concerned and put them in context with current development in Latin America. Although it deals primarily with the representative example of Bolivia, it equally relates the factors analysed to the region as a whole. This is in accordance with the division of factors in internal and external with the focus on internal factors. The policy of current bolivian government with president Evo Morales is described briefly as well because it reflects to some extent the historic and cultural facts under examination.
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Problems of development of social infrustructure in Mongolia and South Korea
Zrníková, Pavla ; Adamcová, Lenka (advisor) ; Němcová, Ingeborg (referee)
ZRNÍKOVÁ, Pavla: Problems of development of social infrustructure in Mongolia and South Korea. [Bachelory work], University of Economics. Faculty of International Relations; Department of World Economy. Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Lenka Adamcová, CSc. Prague : Faculty of International Relations, Prague, 2009, p. The aim of this bachelor work is to compare problems of the development of social infrustructure in Mongolia and South Korea. The author focuses on the two most important spheres of social infrastructure -- health care and education. Majority of differences in development of education and health service in these two countries result from significantly dissimilar economic development that is responsible for poverty of Mongolian people as well as for mental illnesses of exhausted Koreans. The bachelory work is divided into three chapters. The first one is dedicated to Mongolia and its specific problems leading to education and health care of low quality. In the second part the author presents problems of health care and demanding education system in South Korea. The third and the last part compares the causes of malfunction of the social infrastructure in the two countries.
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Specifics of swedish development cooperation
Jelínková, Magdalena ; Druláková, Radka (advisor) ; Zemanová, Štěpánka (referee)
Development cooperation is provided due to many reasons. Some countries are lead by clearly human reasons (eventhough also in that case it's possible to polemize, whether their true reason isn't just creating good impression of the own state in the international community), some of them take it as a good oportunity to show off and some consider it just a good business. Which group does Sweden belong to? Is the aim of the country, which is active in international development cooperation for decades and who is apreciated by developing countries themselves truly to help? Which are the specifics of swedish development cooperation?
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Microfinance - effective instrument of poverty solution, yes or not?
Švecová, Jana ; Svoboda, Miroslav (advisor) ; Janíčko, Martin (referee)
This baccalaureate thesis deals with the efficiency of microfinance (or more precisely microfinance institution - MFIs). First part of the work is focused on problems of poverty, which is intensely connected with the function of microfinance, and then on economic theories, chiefly on asymmetric information. Further my work indicates not only basic definition of microfinance and MFIs, but also history and principles of microfinance. There are also mentioned results of activities of MFIs and also some limitations of concept of microfinance. In the next part deals work with consider the effectiveness of granting credit through MFIs in terms of various indicators. In the end of this thesis are mentioned two real cases from practice, when microfinance really contributes to improvement way of people's life in developing countries.
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Impacts of drug trade in select states of Latin America
Kmetíková, Nina ; Písař, Pavel (advisor) ; Lipka, David (referee)
In the introduction of my thesis, devoted to the drug trade in select states of Latin America, I will address the topic of cocaine and its history. This is important for understanding the significance of the drug in the world, and -- especially in Latin America -- for comprehending that in these countries cocaine has such a strong tradition that attempts to prevent the cultivation of coca and subsequent trade with the drug will probably never succeed. I will further examine the economic and social situations in countries of Latin America and emphasize the fact that people there often have no other alternative than to engage in criminal activities, again for the most part related to cocaine. I will evaluate anti-drug policies in select Latin American countries and their effectiveness -- or rather ineffectiveness -- and conversely attempt to describe how great an influence the narco-mafia has on the economics and politics of given states and on their representatives. I intend to focus my thesis primarily on three Latin American states: Colombia, as the largest supplier of cocaine; Mexico, which is the primary transit country, through which drugs travel from Colombia to the United States, and Brazil, where children's gangs connected with drugs form.
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Neverending african way out of vicious circle of poverty
Schwarzová, Markéta ; Písař, Pavel (advisor) ; Loužek, Marek (referee)
In my baccalaureate thesis I would like to analyze the effeciency of existing develompent assistance to the poor countries (based on Africa). I will evaluate the results of the policy of The International Monetary Fund and World Bank, and review their contribution to the critical situation in these countries. I will also address the denying of the theory of the "vicious circle of poverty" and outlining a possible solution for Africa helping it to fight the poverty -- in the form of microcredits. I would like to emphasize the fact that "develompent assistance " might be a misleading yet powerful term. It is misleading because it is not a voluntary assistance, and according to the latest results it is not even an effective assistance. It is more negative and this negates the meaning of the word " assistance ". It is powerful with respect to a question to whom exactly this "development assistance " helps -- if it is not to the people of developing countries for whom it is intended? And why instead of searching for another way to fight the poverty immense amounts of money are spent although the history proves that this kind of help has negative influence to the economies of developing countries and in reality it harms more than it helps.
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