Background: Along with the austerity measures introduced in many countries, the economic crisis affecting Europe since 2008 seems to have impacted many aspects of the health of the Spanish population and has had a negative effect on the provision health services. An increasing body of knowledge has shown a clear impact of the current crisis on suicidal behaviour and mental health, and a less consistent effect on physical health and access to healthcare. However, little is known about the impact of the crisis on social inequalities in health and healthcare access, an area on which the present study seeks to shed light in the context of Spain, and specifically Andalusia, a region hit very hard by the crisis. Objective: To study the impact of the economic crisis starting in 2008 on health, health inequalities and health service utilisation in Spain and Andalusia and the roles of socio-demographic factors in these associations. Methods: Death rates were analysed to study the annual percent change in overall and cause-specific mortality in Spain between 1999 and 2011, and the Longitudinal Database of the Andalusian Population was used to study educational inequalities in overall mortality from 2002 to 2010 (study 1). To calculate suicide attempt rates, information from 2003 to 2012 on 11,494 men and 12,886 women provided by the Health Emergencies Public Enterprise Information System in Andalusia was utilised. The association between unemployment and suicide attempts was studied through linear regression models (study 2). Two waves of the Andalusian Health Survey (2007 and 2011–12) provided data for the third and fourth studies of this thesis. Educational and employment status inequalities in poor mental health in relation with the crisis were analysed through Poisson regression models (study 3). The change in inequalities (pre-crisis–crisis) in health care utilisation outcomes (general practitioner, specialist, hospitalisation and emergency attendance) was measured by the change in horizontal inequality indices. A decomposition analysis of change in inequality between periods was performed using the Oaxaca approach (study 4). Results: Study 1: Overall mortality in Spain decreased steadily during the period, with annual percent changes of -2.44% in men and -2.20% in women. An increase in educational inequality in mortality was observed in men in Andalusia. In women, the inequalities instead remained stable. Suicide mortality showed a downward trend in both sexes in Spain. Study 2: A sharp increase in suicide attempts in Andalusia was detected after the onset of the crisis in both sexes, with adults aged 35 to 54 years being the most affected. Suicide attempts were associated with unemployment rates only in men. Study 3: Poor mental health increased in working individuals with secondary and primary studies during the crisis compared to the pre-crisis period, while it decreased in the university study group. However, in unemployed individuals poor mental health increased only in the secondary studies group. Financial strain could partly explain the crisis effect on mental health among the unemployed. Study 4: Horizontal inequality in utilisation changed to a greater equality or a more pro-poor inequality in both sexes. In the decomposition analysis, socioeconomic position and health status showed greater contributions to the changes in inequalities. Conclusion: This thesis illustrates the complexity of the influences of the current economic crisis on health inequalities in a Southern European region. Specifically, no noticeable effects of the crisis on overall and suicide mortality were detected; instead, increasing educational inequalities in mortality in men and a large increase in suicide attempts in middle aged men and women were observed. The deterioration in poor mental health was mainly detected in those of intermediate educational level. Economic conditions such as unemployment and financial strain proved to be relevant. Finally, in the light of no increased inequalities in healthcare utilisation, the universal coverage health system seems to buffer the deleterious effect of the crisis and austerity policies in this context.

The principal objective of the work is to determine particularities of global FDI flows during the current economic crisis vis-a-vis preceding years. It is divided into four main parts and at first starts with a general description of FDIs. Then a description of behaviour of FDIs during 2000-2006 is provided and several indicators used by UNCTAD in its WIRs are also presented. After that, as soon as the development of FDIs at the beginning of the present century is known, a detailed text revealing the evolution of global FDI flows since the beginning of the crisis till the end of 2009 comes. The last important chapter is dedicated to the detection of particularitites of global FDI flows, whereas findings gained in previous parts have been also used.

Thesis called "Monetary policy of Czech National Bank and the perspectives of acceptance of euro" is mainly focused on convergence process in Czech Republic. First part of the work consists of current monetary policy of Czech National Bank and characteristics of monetary cooperation development needed for Economic and monetary union establishment. Real convergence state evaluation and maastricht criteria discharging in Czech Republic are the main goals of the thesis. Current global financial crisis is shown in readiness of Czech Republic of EMU entering conclusions.

Impact of economic crisis on fertility level in EU member states Abstract The aim of this diploma thesis is to provide a detailed development overview of the selected indicators, i.e., GDP per capita, unemployment rate and total fertility rate, in the context of the Global Economic Crisis, which, on a European scale, started in 2008, and evaluate the impact of the crisis on fertility levels across EU countries. The diploma thesis further concerns itself with various approaches to the relation between economic development and fertility, briefly with the causes of the Global Economic Crisis and with family policy measures in response to worsening economic conditions. Using cluster and regression analyses, the relationship between the economic indicators and total fertility rates in relation to the onset of the crisis has been examined. Even though total fertility rates of individual EU countries were affected differently by the change of economic conditions, the results indicate that changes in unemployment rates affect fertility levels. The decline in fertility levels during the crisis, which occurred in most of the examined countries, is certainly the result of a large number of factors affecting reproductive behaviour. Nevertheless, the results suggest that the symptoms of the crisis significantly...

A presente dissertação realiza uma análise dos artigos jornalísticos de Karl Marx e Frie-drich Engels publicados no jornal norte-americano New York Daily Tribune, entre 1851 e 1862. Durante esse período, Marx trabalhou como correspondente europeu e era o responsável pelos assuntos militares e financeiros do jornal. Engels, como uma espécie de ghost writer, ajudou Marx na tarefa de despachar semanalmente os artigos para Nova Iorque. Dentre os diversos assuntos abordados por Marx nesses artigos, selecionamos a crise de econômica de 1857-1858 e a Guerra Civil Americana de 1861-1865 como focos de nosso trabalho A escolha desses dois temas nos permite demonstrar a interação entre os estudos de economia desenvolvidos por Marx para elaboração de sua crítica da eco-nomia política e os estudos dos acontecimentos históricos particulares. Essa interação é fundamental para pensarmos o que Marx chamou em O Capital de método de pesqui-sa e método de apresentação. Ela é fundamental também para entendermos a especi-ficidade da apresentação ou da narrativa histórica desenvolvida por Marx nos artigos jornalísticos. Dos artigos sobre a crise destacamos como, a partir da análise detalhada do sistema financeiro, em especial do banco francês Crédit Mobilier, Marx aponta para a centralidade do sistema de crédito na expansão da economia capitalista e no estouro das crises. A partir dos artigos sobre a guerra civil americana, descrevemos como Marx procurou entender a guerra como um conflito entre dois sistemas sociais a escravi-dão e o trabalho assalariado tendo em vista a necessidade expansiva do escravismo. / This dissertation makes an analysis of journalistic articles of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published in the American newspaper New York Daily Tribune between 1851 and 1862. During this period, Marx worked as European correspondent and was respon-sible for the newspapers military and financial matters. Engels, as a sort of ghostwriter, helped Marx in the task weekly dispatch the articles to New York. Among the many matters discussed by Marx in these articles, we selected the economic crisis of 1857-1858 and the American Civil War of 1861-1865 as the central focus of our analysis. The choice of these two topics allows us to demonstrate the interaction between the econom-ic studies developed by Marx to elaborate his critique of political economy and studies of particular historical events. This interaction is crucial to think what Marx called in The Capital research method and presentation method. It is also fundamental to understand the specificity of the presentation or the historical narrative developed by Marx in newspaper articles. Articles about the crisis highlight how, from the detailed analysis of the financial system, especially the French Crédit Mobilier, Marx points to the centrality of the credit system in the expansion of the capitalist economy and the bursting of the crisis. From the articles on the American Civil War, we described as Marx tried to understand the war as a conflict between two social systems the slav-ery and the free-labor having in mind the expansive necessity of slavery.

A classe média brasileira emergente, quebrando paradigmas e impulsionando a economia brasileira nas últimas décadas por meio do aumento do poder de compra e consequente consumo de produtos e serviços a que antes só eram acessíveis a classes sociais mais abastadas se tornou alvo de várias empresas que reviram suas estratégias de modo a criar uma oferta voltada ao interesse desse público. O presente estudo tem como objetivo identificar e analisar as diferenças e semelhanças nas atividades de marketing de serviços de empresas que criaram e adaptaram sua oferta por meio de novas marcas para atender à ascensão do poder de compra da classe média brasileira em relação às suas marcas já existentes. Com o aumento do poder de compra da classe média brasileira, esse segmento da população se tornou alvo do interesse de empresas que buscaram passar a atender esse segmento por meio, principalmente, da criação de novas marcas, tanto de bens como de serviços, direcionados a este público. Para cumprir com o objetivo proposto, primeiramente buscou definir-se quem é a classe média brasileira tratada pelo presente estudo, à luz dos diversos critérios de classificação disponíveis e suas características. A partir dessa definição, a revisão teórica abordou temas de marketing de serviços: segmentação, posicionamento, as diferenças entre bens e serviços, o composto de marketing aplicado a serviços, noções sobre o desenvolvimento de uma marca para um nível mais baixo e a aplicação do marketing de serviços à classe média brasileira, finalizando com os efeitos da crise econômica nas estratégias das empresas que desenvolveram novas marcas para atender esse público. O método utilizado para a pesquisa de campo foi o estudo de caso e as unidades de análise escolhidas foram o Grupo Fleury, com as marcas Fleury Medicina e Saúde e a+ Medicina Diagnóstica, o Grupo Bio Ritmo, com as marcas Bio Ritmo e Smart Fit e o Grupo Porto Seguro, com a Porto Seguro e a Azul Seguros. A análise dos casos foi feita, primeiramente, de forma individual, fazendo uma comparação com o observado na pesquisa de campo com o a revisão teórica e em seguida, os casos foram comparados entre si. Com a pesquisa, foi possível concluir que as marcas desenvolvidas para a classe média tem como principal segmento alvo a classe C, posicionadas como serviço econômico, eficiente e de boa relação custo-benefício. Além disso, a decisão de passar a atender o público da classe média, de renda inferior ao público já atendido pelas empresas por meio de novas marcas e não extensões de marca foi motivado, principalmente para preservar a reputação, credibilidade e posicionamento premium das marcas originais. A adaptação da oferta das empresas que criaram novas marcas para atender a classe média em ascensão econômica se deu, principalmente, na diferenciação da quantidade, variedade e sofisticação dos serviços suplementares oferecidos para a marca mais econômica serem inferiores em relação à marca original premium. A estrutura de custos das marcas voltada para a classe média se mostrou inferior à das marcas premium, resultando num preço consideravelmente mais baixo. Os efeitos da crise econômica percebidos pelas empresas que criaram marcas para a classe média envolvem a migração de clientes da marca premium para a marca mais econômica, principalmente motivados pela boa relação custo-benefício conseguida por meio da um nível semelhante de qualidade técnica do serviço principal e uma oferta mais simples de serviço total, minimizando a estrutura de custos necessária e, por isso, possibilitando a prática de um nível de preços baixo, muito atrativo em períodos de crise. / The emerging Brazilian middle class, breaking paradigms and boosting the Brazilian economy in recent decades through increased purchasing power and consequent consumption of goods and services that were previously only accessible to more affluent social classes became the target of several companies reviewed their strategies in order to create a directed offer to the interest of this audience. This study aims to identify and analyze the differences and similarities in the marketing activities of the services of companies that created and adapted their offer through new brands to meet the rising purchasing power of the Brazilian middle class in relation to their brands already existing. With increasing purchasing power of the Brazilian middle class, this segment of the population became the target of interest from companies that sought to move to serve this segment through mainly the creation of new brands, both goods and services, aimed at this audience. To meet the proposed objective, first sought to define who is the Brazilian middle class treated in this study, in the light of the vari-ous classification criteria available and their characteristics. From this definition, the theoreti-cal review addressed marketing issues services: segmentation, positioning, differences be-tween goods and services, the marketing mix applied to services, notions about the develop-ment of a brand to a lower level and the application of services to the Brazilian middle class marketing, ending with the effects of the economic crisis in the strategies of companies that have developed new brands to meet the public. The method used for field research was the case study and the studied units were Fleury, a+, Bio Ritmo, Smart Fit, Porto Seguro and Azul Seguros.The case analysis were made, first, individually, making a comparison with data from the field research with the theoretical review and then the cases were compared. Through research, it was concluded that the brands developed for the middle class\'s main tar-get segment the C class, positioned as economic, efficient and cost-effective. Moreover, the decision to serve the public of the middle class, lower public income already served by com-panies through new brands and not brand extensions was motivated mainly to preserve the reputation, credibility and premium positioning of original brands. The adaptation of the offer of companies that created new brands to meet the middle class in economic rise was mainly in the differentiation of the amount, variety and sophistication of additional services for the most economical brand being lower in relation to the original premium brand. The marks of the cost structure facing the middle class was inferior to the premium brands, resulting in a considerably lower price. The effects of the economic crisis perceived by companies that created brands for the middle class involve the migration of premium brand customers to the most cost brand, mainly motivated by cost-benefit achieved through a similar level of technical quality of the main service and a simpler offer full service, minimizing the cost structure required and, therefore, allowing the practice of a low price level, very attractive in times of crisis.

The thesis deals with the unemployment of young people in two selected EU countries, namely the Czech Republic and Spain. The main aim of the thesis is to analyze the position of the young generation in the labor market in the selected EU countries and their comparison. The partial objective is to evaluate the currently used tools of active employment policy, identify barriers to implementation and propose possible solutions to unemployment of this target group in selected countries. The analysis focuses not only on the overall unemployment rate of the monitored age category, but also on the development of the number of unemployed by type of education and sex. Last but not least, information is also provided in relation to the unemployment rate in individual NUTS 2 cohesion regions in the above countries. The reference period is between 2007 and 2017.

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Nos últimos anos, sobretudo na esteira do acirramento do belicismo norte-americano e da subseqüente crise econômica mundial, veio à tona um conjunto de temas que tradicionalmente constituíram objetos da análise marxista, e sobre os quais diversos membros desta tradição continuam a se debruçar. Nesse contexto, e a despeito do pouco espaço de circulação de suas teses, torna-se oportuno, por um lado, analisá-las com respeito ao abrangente quadro a que visam, qual seja, o da apreensão conceitual da hodierna fase de desenvolvimento capitalista; e, por outro, confrontar esse aparato teórico com um fenômeno empírico como o da última crise econômica mundial, cujos efeitos ainda se fazem sentir, e cujos desdobramentos são dignos de interesse. Grosso modo, tendo como objetivo último fornecer uma contribuição ao debate marxista acerca da atual dinâmica da acumulação de capital e de suas principais tendências, buscamos, em primeiro lugar, perscrutar sua emergência à luz da fase do desenvolvimento capitalista que lhe precedeu, e fixar alguns elementos mais salientes de seu processo histórico de consolidação, bem como da configuração geral que veio a assumir. Na sequência, procuramos sintetizar e considerar criticamente determinados esforços marxistas de conceituação dessa nova fase, os quais organizamos por meio de noções-chave a saber, de pós-modernidade e pós-modernismo; de globalização; de neoliberalismo; de financeirização; de hegemonia e de imperialismo. Por fim, valendo-nos desse conjunto de fatores, concentramos nossa atenção sobre o evolver e o significado da mais recente crise econômica mundial. / In recent years, especially in the wake of the intensification of north american bellicosity and the subsequent global economic crisis, came to the surface a set of topics that have traditionally constituted objects of Marxist analysis, and on which several members of this tradition continue to address. In this context, and in despite of the limited room for the circulation of their thesis, it becomes appropriate, on the one hand, to analyze them with respect to the comprehensive framework they aimed at, namely, the conceptual apprehension of the coeval stage of capitalist development; and, on the other hand, to confront this theoretical apparatus with an empirical phenomenon as that of the last global economic crisis, whose effects are still being felt, and whose unfoldings are worthy of interest. Roughly speaking, with the ultimate goal of providing a contribution to the Marxist debate concerning the present dynamics of the capital accumulation and its main trends, in the first place we have looked for peering its emergence in the light of the stage of capitalist development that preceded it, and fix some salient elements of its historical process of consolidation, as well as the general configuration that it came to assume. After that, we have sought to summarize and to critically consider certain Marxists efforts of conceptualizing this new phase, which we organized throught \"key-notions\" - namely, post-modernity and postmodernism; globalization; neoliberalism; financialization; hegemony and imperialism. Finally, based on this set of factors, we have concentrated our attention on the development and the significance of the latest global economic crisis.

Nos últimos anos, sobretudo na esteira do acirramento do belicismo norte-americano e da subseqüente crise econômica mundial, veio à tona um conjunto de temas que tradicionalmente constituíram objetos da análise marxista, e sobre os quais diversos membros desta tradição continuam a se debruçar. Nesse contexto, e a despeito do pouco espaço de circulação de suas teses, torna-se oportuno, por um lado, analisá-las com respeito ao abrangente quadro a que visam, qual seja, o da apreensão conceitual da hodierna fase de desenvolvimento capitalista; e, por outro, confrontar esse aparato teórico com um fenômeno empírico como o da última crise econômica mundial, cujos efeitos ainda se fazem sentir, e cujos desdobramentos são dignos de interesse. Grosso modo, tendo como objetivo último fornecer uma contribuição ao debate marxista acerca da atual dinâmica da acumulação de capital e de suas principais tendências, buscamos, em primeiro lugar, perscrutar sua emergência à luz da fase do desenvolvimento capitalista que lhe precedeu, e fixar alguns elementos mais salientes de seu processo histórico de consolidação, bem como da configuração geral que veio a assumir. Na sequência, procuramos sintetizar e considerar criticamente determinados esforços marxistas de conceituação dessa nova fase, os quais organizamos por meio de noções-chave a saber, de pós-modernidade e pós-modernismo; de globalização; de neoliberalismo; de financeirização; de hegemonia e de imperialismo. Por fim, valendo-nos desse conjunto de fatores, concentramos nossa atenção sobre o evolver e o significado da mais recente crise econômica mundial. / In recent years, especially in the wake of the intensification of north american bellicosity and the subsequent global economic crisis, came to the surface a set of topics that have traditionally constituted objects of Marxist analysis, and on which several members of this tradition continue to address. In this context, and in despite of the limited room for the circulation of their thesis, it becomes appropriate, on the one hand, to analyze them with respect to the comprehensive framework they aimed at, namely, the conceptual apprehension of the coeval stage of capitalist development; and, on the other hand, to confront this theoretical apparatus with an empirical phenomenon as that of the last global economic crisis, whose effects are still being felt, and whose unfoldings are worthy of interest. Roughly speaking, with the ultimate goal of providing a contribution to the Marxist debate concerning the present dynamics of the capital accumulation and its main trends, in the first place we have looked for peering its emergence in the light of the stage of capitalist development that preceded it, and fix some salient elements of its historical process of consolidation, as well as the general configuration that it came to assume. After that, we have sought to summarize and to critically consider certain Marxists efforts of conceptualizing this new phase, which we organized throught \"key-notions\" - namely, post-modernity and postmodernism; globalization; neoliberalism; financialization; hegemony and imperialism. Finally, based on this set of factors, we have concentrated our attention on the development and the significance of the latest global economic crisis.