The aim of this diploma thesis is to cover all phases of the development of social policy in the European Union from the very beginnings of it as one entity, and, furthermore, to concretize the importance of EQUAL Community Initiative as a tool for completing the European Employment Strategy and for fighting against all forms of discrimination and unequal conditions in the labour market. This initiative is one out of four which are funded by the European Union Structural Funds, namely the European Social Fund (ESF), in the programme period of 2000-2009. The analytical part of this thesis is aimed at the overall analysis of one of the EQUAL Community Initiative projects called "Business Without Obstructions" which is realized within the South Bohemian region. The goal of this three-year project is the support of those people from target groups who decide to solve their difficult life situation -- unemployment - with starting a business activity. The characteristic feature of this project is the establishment of the so called BENEFIT contact places which provide professional consultancy on business issues. These contact places were established in the Regional Offices of South Bohemian Chamber of Commerce.

In my thesis I am trying to characterise region of Eastern Slovakia, concretly two regions: Košický and Prešovský region. First part of thesis includes general characteristics of regions, their submission to regional structure, regional differences and common signs, comparison with Western Slovakia. The next part includes short history of Slovakia, mainly Eastern Slovakia before and after origin. Methodology of my thesis is a regional analysis, mainly SWOT analysis. This is the main part of my thesis. I concentrate on Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats in each region separately. Also characterise chosen operational programs and possibilities of subvention. In conclusion my thesis there are suggestions and recommendations for regional development of the region Eastern Slovakia.

My thesis characterizes the position of women on the labour market. It describes the historical development of the social position of women, depicts the different approach of girls and boys in the process of education. It evaluates the opportunities of women and men on the labour market and highlights the insufficient respect for the rules of fair opportunities and fair treatment. My thesis shows a few ways enabling to overcome barriers that are closely linked to balancing work and family life. My thesis also focuses on the comparison of the Czech Republic and some other states. The thesis includes a research that maps out chances of women on the labour market, seen from the perspective of female employees of a chosen company.

The main goal of the diploma thesis is to provide comprehensive analysis of investment climate in Latvia. It includes evaluation of current demographic, political as well as economic development. The thesis contains analysis of economic relations between Latvia and Czech Republic and is also aimed to evaluate current opportunities of Czech exporters on the Latvian market.

This diploma thesis is focused on the business opportunities in Ghana. The thesis is divided into three main chapters. The first chapter describes briefly the main characteristics of the Ghanaian market. The second key chapter is analytical. There is a detailed PEST analysis with explanation and practical advises based on author's experience. It is followed by SWOT analyses from the Czech point of view. Finally there is also more information about actual business cooperation between Ghana and Czech Republic. The last chapter of the thesis points out the business opportunities in Ghana. The goal of this thesis is to name the business opportunities in Ghana and to find the main differences of the Ghanaian market, which are crucial for the investor's decision whether to expand to Ghana or not.

Statistical data collection is on high level at this time in European countries including Czech Republic. However, there is still a space for enriching statistics and looking for innovative ways of using obtained data. In context of the governments' efforts to promote equal opportunities for women and men, gender statistics is being addressed. It should serve as a base for detecting a position of women and men in all areas of the society and it should help to evaluate the impact of various actions ex ante as well as ex post. The aim of this diploma thesis is to continue to fulfill the intention to provide an interconnected picture of need for gender statistics in connection with diploma thesis written by Ing. Barbora Stanislavová in 2013. The emphasis is put on adding information on current course of gender studies connected with economy and on describing selected gender statistics indicators. The previous thesis covers general gender equality indicators and labour market area, this diploma thesis concentrates on indicators in family area. Gender statistics description is accompanied by actual data for Czech Republic and other European countries in order to provide illustrative example of use of gender statistics.

This master thesis is focused on business environment in China from the perspective of Czech companies. The theoretical part represents basic informations that are good to know for every entrepreneur who is thinking about exporting to China. First, it introduces chinese economic situation from historical and contemporary perspective and its cooperation with the Czech Republic. Subsequently there is a describtion of industries, which still bring opportunities for Czech companies. At the end this part maps the participation of Czech companies in the Chinese market.The second part of the theory focuses on describing the opportunities to enter the Chinese market and also on how to deal with Chinese enterpreneurs. From European perspective is Chinese market still very different and it could lead to misunderstandings and business problems. Practical part of the work is to focus on a few Czech companies to describe their experience with the Chinese market and highlight the advice for other companies. Final part includes selected recommendations for enterpreneurs, which are based on interviews and questionnaires of Czech export managers dealing with China.

The objective of this thesis is to find the different business opportunities on the French fair trade market. Born in the middle of the 20th century, fair trade aims to improve producers' commercial terms. Since the beginning of the 90's, its market in France strongly increased and business owners began to take an interest in it. Nowadays, three growth drivers can be identified: new fair trade products launch, new distribution network development, and targets enlargement (young people and companies are high potential targets). However, some success factors have to be considered. For example, it is necessary to focus on the communication or maximize product visibility in point of sale.

Systemic corruption has fierce impacts on human development. Research indicates that systemic corruption in Armenia has invaded into all the sectors of social life and has transformed society making from it a comfortable environment for existence. Human development, social structure, human resources, public way of thinking, opportunities are constrained by the limitations and restriction put by corrupt system. This paper provides a comprehensive study of the systemic nature of corruption and its consequences, the picture of socio-cultural attitude to the corruption through analysing public perceptions, and analyses the connection between corruption, corrupt behaviour and human development. Keywords Corruption, social perceptions, human development, opportunities, corrupt behaviour, social capital.

In order to answer modern challenges, which come from increasing needs in energy forprivate persons and industries as well as in order to decrease negative environmentalimpacts, caused by the processes of energy generation, it is important to constantly searchfor untapped energy efficiency potential. Moreover, nowadays, energy efficiency hasbecome one of the prerequisites of successful market competitiveness for any type ofindustry on local and global levels.An energy audit is an instrument, which can be used for understanding how the energy isused and identify possible energy-saving opportunities. It can be applied to a facility as awhole, as well as individually to equipment, system(s) or process(es). Moreover, energysaving measures can be both cross-cutting and sector-specific.The purpose of this project was to conduct a detailed energy audit of the Hagby wasterecycling plant and to identify beneficial energy saving opportunities from economic,environmental and social perspectives.In the frames of a preliminary energy audit 10 focus areas for further analysis wereidentified. For every area a baseline assessment of the current energy performance wasconducted, possible energy management opportunities were identified and evaluated aswell as results of each analysis were summarized. According to the results of the study, with the implementation of the suggestions, whichrequire no, low or medium investments it is possible to save 3,2% of the energy per year,which corresponds to 76 846 kWh. Energy consumption can further be decreased byimplementing measures, which need high initial financial investment. In that case totalsavings will be 468 846 kWh or 19,4% of total annual energy consumption. Additionalenergy might be saved just by introducing energy housekeeping measures. Finally,implementation of all the proposed EMO can bring 14,46 tons of 2 CO savings annually.Additional benefits of implementing the energy saving opportunities come from decreasingenvironmental impacts, improving working conditions of the plant employees and higherenergy security at the plant.The results of the energy audit can be a solid base for establishing an energy managementprogram at the plant, which will include performance targets, required resources and aclear procedure of realization of improvements. However, since some of the calculations inthe current study are based on various assumptions, after the company forms the energymanagement program, it is necessary to invite experts from industry in order to giveaccurate calculations for each of the focus areas.