Professional Higher Education Bachelor ’s Programme “European business Studies” Course paper in Economics Economic indicators for analysis of living standards in Latvia and Scandinavian countries – Sweden and Norway Author: Yevgeniya Grygorchuk Group D1A2 Supervisor: A.Petrovs Riga‚ Month 2009 Introduction 4 Topic relevance 4 Course paper aim 4 Course paper tasks 4 1 Theoretical basis 5 1.1 Definition of the term “living standards” 5 1.2 Factors that influence
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that live in Sweden‚ and their relation to our society‚ the Swedish general population and the government. Every day‚ we read in the newspapers about how different gangs‚ consisting of youths with different ethnical backgrounds (Swedish youths are an obvious minority in these gangs)‚ have been involved in various illegal activities‚ such as assault‚ robbery and so on. The members of these groups‚ or gangs‚ have a few things in common. First of all‚ most of them have only lived in Sweden for a few
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there are conflicting resources on the subject of agricultural prosperity‚ and its possible effects on emigration. Janson discusses the period of 1836-1875 in Sweden as one of agricultural opulence due to increased prices on the world market for grains. However‚ one might make the observation that during this period the population of Sweden
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SWEDEN’S IKEA Established in the 1940s in Sweden by Ingvar Kamprad‚ IKEA has grown rapidly in recent years to become one of the world’s largest retailers of home fur¬nishings. In its initial push to expand globally‚ IKEA largely ignored the retailing rule that international suc¬cess involves tailoring product lines closely to national tastes and preferences. Instead‚ IKEA stuck with the vision‚ articulated by founder Kamprad‚ that the com¬pany should sell a basic product range that is "typically
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international growth and IKEA’s unique corporate culture and brand identity Interview by Kataiina Kling and Ingela Goteman Executive Overview IKEA started in 1943 as a one-man mail order company in a small farming village in the southern part of Sweden called Smaland. The founder‚ Ingvar Kamprad‚ only a 17year-old boy at the time‚ initially arranged for the local county milk van to transport the goods to the nearby train station. Today the IKEA Group has 70‚000 co-workers and a turnover of over
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life? - What languages did they speak? Tribe‚ dialect‚ migration‚ invasion 1. The first testimonies on Germanic tribes Germanic tribes are great ethnic complex of ancient Europe‚ a basic stock in the composition of the modern peoples of Sweden‚ Norway‚ Denmark‚ Iceland‚ Germany‚ Austria‚ Switzerland‚ Northern Italy‚ the Netherlands‚ Belgium‚ Luxembourg‚ Northern and Central France‚ Lowland Scotland and England. In ancient times the territory of Germanic languages was more limited than now
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or early Siberia. Geographic Location: This indigenous group calls Norway‚ Sweden‚ Finland‚ and parts of northwestern Russia home. While the Sami are credited with being the longest living group of people on the Scandinavia peninsula‚ the majority of today’s population resides in
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same. Sweden‚ a country that once reflected only a single or perhaps a few ethnic groups now comprises more than 100 different ethnic groups so for the purposes of this paper‚ I will write about the Swedish culture as a whole. Sweden is a country on the Scandinavian peninsula in Northern Europe‚ with it’s capital being Stockholm. It is fourth in size among the European counties‚ with about 15% of its total area situated north of the Arctic Circle. You would think that the weather in Sweden would
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insulated well to keep them warm in the winter. Due to the fact that Sweden has lots of forests‚ their homes usually contain many beautiful wood products such as wood floors and wood cabinets. Music Swedes love to sing. A variety of folk music and folk dancing are still popular in Sweden. Some of the folk instruments of Sweden include the fiddle‚ accordion and the nychelharpa. There are also many famous pop singers that have come from Sweden. These include Abba‚ Ace of Base‚ Roxette‚ and The Cardigans
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idea of the present Master thesis topic emerged out of my studies in the Master program of Global studies at Lund University. The research is about democracy in education. The aim of the research is to trace democratic values in primary schools in Sweden through in depth semi-structured interviews with the teachers. The region that the research was conducted is Lund city. The method of analysis is thematic analysis and various previous researches‚ Swedish and international have been used throughout
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