This work analyses the development of Russian Federation during the presidency of V. Putin in years 2000-2008. It is especially concentrated on the internal development. It starts by summarizing of the Yeltsin period to understand the background, V. Putin was entering into, and to compare both systems in their continuity or difference. Concerning internal affairs, the work focuses on political consolidation, economic stabilization and the evolution of the Russian society. In foreign affairs, it analyses Russia's attitudes towards great powers like EU, USA or China. It mentions also the relations with the post-Soviet countries. Last but not least, the work brings a conclusion about the Russian identity and success of the reforms.

The thesis deals with the promotion of agriculture in the European Union. The aim is to evaluate the development of the Common Agricultural Policy of the Union from its beginning until now. Work includes general characteristics of the agricultural sector, development and financing of the Common agricultural policy, positions of individual Member States to the common agricultural policy, its reforms and financing. The author's main resources are books and documents of the European institutions.

The main goal of this diploma thesis is to map the development of China's competitiveness in the period from 1970's to the present and to outline the development of the economy in the next 2 decades. The simplified view of the Chinese competitiveness is used in the thesis, which means that we can identify 2 strategies aimed at the development of the Chinese competitiveness. The first chapter contains a definition of term competitiveness and introduces the way of its measurement. The first strategy was applied in China in the period 1978-2005 and is described in the 2nd, 3rd and the 4th chapter. The main goal of these 3 chapters is to describe the reforms adopted by the government and to evaluate the impacts of these reform measures on pillars of the Chinese competitiveness. The latest strategy is described in the last chapter and a special attention is paid to the reform measures aimed at boosting China's innovation performance.

After 2 WW was a situation in Germany very difficult. Consequences of a defeat were legible in all spheres. Despite of this situation the German economy was able to recover and in the next two decades showed an economic growth. A significant share on this recovery had representatives of the concept of social market economy and representatives of ordoliberalism Ludwig Erhard, Walter Aucken or Alexander Rustow. In the first chapter I deal with the characteristics and main principles of social market economy. I define main historical milestones of this concept regarding the economic development. With another internal and external changes which inevitably affected German economy, a weaknesses of this system appeared. There were implemented structural reforms, which changed the original concept of social market economy. The second chapter is focused on these structural changes. The last and third chapter deals with current economic situation, which was influenced by the process of globalization and integration of EU. Then in this chapter I describe the current form of social market economy and pros and cons of this concept. The final part deals with future development and sustainability of social market economy.

Transformation of banking in the years 1989-1992 was a very complex process affecting the whole economy of the country as it touched every business entity, including government authorities, which have an bank account or a loan from one of the Czechoslovak banks. This thesis will attempt to determine whether the bank crisis in the nineties, manifested by a high number of bankrupt banks, could have origins in transition. It will focus mainly on the privatization of the banking sector and legislative developments in the period. Thesis will be based mainly on the archival fund of the State Bank of Czechoslovakia, on contemporary scientific press, stenographic protocols stored in digital depositary of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic and current scientific literature on the topic.

The thesis is focused on issue of the middle income trap and its application on Chinese market. Thesis is divided into three parts. The first chapter deals with concept of "middle income trap" and defines its causes. The second chapter analyses current situation of Chinese economy, also selected problems and trends in economy whitch are related to middle income trap. The goal of the last part is to answer questions whether China is in the middle income trap or manage to escape.

Orientador: Deise Aparecida Peralta / Resumo: Essa pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar as percepções dos coordenadores pedagógicos da Educação Infantil da Rede Municipal de São José do Rio Preto, a respeito da etapa de consulta pública no processo de reforma curricular encadeadas pelos documentos curriculares: Base Nacional Comum Curricular e o Currículo Paulista, considerando suas ações articuladoras, mediadoras e formadoras. Para tal intento, apoiamo-nos no arcabouço teórico de Jürgen Habermas, especificamente nos conceitos de Ação Comunicativa e Esfera Pública. Acreditamos na relevância de reunirmos os coordenadores pedagógicos para essa discussão, pois de maneira geral os educadores têm reduzida capacidade de participar da construção das políticas educativas, e envolvendo-os em espaços de discussões podemos buscar a constituição de uma Esfera Pública como uma estrutura comunicacional escorada nas Associações Livres, onde esse aspecto poderá ser debatido. O estudo contou com uma análise documental sobre os documentos curriculares nacionais, estadual e municipal. Houve também o levantamento de produções acadêmicas sobre a coordenação pedagógica na Educação Infantil e pesquisas que envolviam Teoria do Agir Comunicativo em contextos educativos. Participaram do levantamento de campo seis coordenadores (as) pedagógicos (as) que foram envolvidos (as) em duas conversações: uma individual e outra coletiva em um grupo. Como resultados da análise dos documentos curriculares traçamos um quadro comparativo entre o Referencial Cu... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This research aims to investigate the views of the Pedagogical Coordinators and Principal of Children Education in the city São José do Rio Preto, concerning the stage of public consultation in the curricular reform process chained by the curricular documents: Common National Curriculum and the Paulista Curriculum, considering the articulating, mediator and formator actions. For this purpose, we rely on Jürgen Habermas' academic framework, specifically in the concepts of Communicative Action and Public Sphere. We believe in the relevance of bringing together pedagogical coordinators for this discussion, because in general, educators have reduced the capacity to participate in the construction of educational and training policies, and involving spaces for discussions we can seek the Constitution of a Public Sphere as a communication structure anchored in the Free Associations, where this aspect may be discussed. This research had a documentary analysis on national, state and municipal curriculum documents. There was also the survey of academic productions on pedagogical coordination in Children Education and research involving Communicative Action Theory in educational settings. Six pedagogical coordinators participated in the field surveys who were involved in two interviews: one individual and the others in a discussion group. As results of the analysis of curricular documents we outlined a comparative framework between the National Curriculum for Children Education (RCNEI),... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

La réforme du secteur de l'électricité du Nigeria a eu lieu en 2010-2013 mais a été jugée infructueuse par la plupart des parties prenantes. L'échec de la réforme est illustré par une myriade de défis économiques, institutionnels, techniques, financiers et sociopolitiques apparemment insurmontables. Cette thèse a pour objectif de proposer des solutions viables aux défis (ex post) auxquels fait face le secteur électrique du Nigéria, en empruntant aux approches de l'économie de l'énergie sur le market design et la régulation. Elle identifie les principales causes de l'échec de la dernière réforme du secteur : privatisation incomplète, intégration horizontale des opérations de transport et de réseau, infrastructure d'approvisionnement gazière sous-développée et cadre réglementaire faible et inefficace. Ainsi, elle recommande de renforcer le cadre réglementaire comme un bon point de départ pour résoudre les problèmes sectoriels (ex-post) de la réforme.Ensuite, cette thèse démontre que des enchères inversées bien conçues peuvent être un mécanisme de marché approprié à la situation du Nigéria, en précisant les variables importantes pour une implémentation réussie. Cette thèse affirme également que ces variables devraient être fondées sur un cadre institutionnel et réglementaire solide pour réussir. Elle recommande donc de concevoir des enchères inversées pour la technologie de stockage solaire photovoltaïque hors réseau /minigrid, en tant que solution potentielle pour accroître l'accès à l'électricité, attirer les investissements, et également discuté de la voie à suivre afin d’adapter la conception au cadre de marché discuter / réglementaire existant.Enfin, cette thèse comble certaines lacunes de l'état de l'art du secteur électrique nigérian en appliquant et combinant des systèmes d’informations géographiques (GIS), un outil d’optimisation de système énergétique et des connaissances du market design et de la régulation. Elle a identifié les clusters de consommateurs les plus peuplées sans accès à l'électricité, fait des projections de la demande de charge et déterminé les tailles de stockage PV et de batteries optimisées sur le plan techno-économique pour obtenir une alimentation de haute qualité d’électricité avec une certaine gestion de la demande. Également, elle a analysé les besoins en terrains / la disponibilité pour obtenir une liste restreinte de 233 clusters de 7,2 millions d'habitants, nécessitant un solaire photovoltaïque de 3 280 MW pour la vente aux enchères proposée. Enfin, cette thèse a examiné la voie à suivre pour adapter la conception proposée de la vente aux enchères de stockage d’énergie solaire photovoltaïque et de stockage au cadre de market design/réglementaire existant. / The Nigeria Power sector reform was performed in the year 2010-2013 but has been adjudged unsuccessful by most stakeholders. The failure of the reform is evidenced by a myriad of seemingly insurmountable economic, institutional, technical, financial and socio-political challenges. This thesis aims to propose workable solutions to the challenges in the Nigeria Power sector (ex-post) reform from the field of market design and regulation in energy economics. It finds incomplete privatization coupled with the horizontal integration of the transmission and network operations, underdeveloped gas supply infrastructure and the ineffective/weak regulatory framework as the root causes of the reform failure. Thus, it recommends strengthening the regulatory framework as a good starting point to resolve sectoral problems (ex-post) reform.Furthermore, it argues that reverse auction has the potential to be successful in Nigeria with well-designed market variables and provides the market design variables adaptable to the Nigeria case to achieve a successful auction run. It also argues that these variables should be built on a foundation of a robust institutional and regulatory framework to be successful. It thus recommends designing reverse auctions for offgrid/minigrid solar PV plus storage technology as a potential solution to increase power access and attract investment and also discussed the pathway to adapt the design to the existing market/regulatory framework. In addition, it applied and combined Geographical Information System (GIS), energy system optimization tool and market/regulation knowledge to bridge some knowledge gap in the Nigeria Power sector. It identified the most populated consumer clusters without electricity access, made load demand projections and determined the techno-economically optimized PV plus battery storage sizes to achieve high quality power supply with some demand side management. Furthermore, it analyzed the land requirements/availability to achieve a shortlist of 233 clusters with 7.2 million people that require 3,280 MW solar PV for the proposed auction. Finally, it discussed the pathway to adapt the proposed solar PV plus storage auction design to the existing market/regulatory framework.

Thesis (LLM.) -- University of Limpopo, 2015 / This mini-dissertation discusses the retirement reforms laws. It analysis the comparative study between South Africa and Chile. South Africa had undergone the retirement reforms processes since 1992 when Mouton Commission of Inquiry was established and in 2002. Since then lot of discussion papers were finalised which mooted retirement reforms ranging from retirement reforms and social security, a safer financial sector to serve South Africa better, strengthening retirement savings, costs of retirement benefits. Chile is a country which is already ahead in their retirement reforms processes. This study seeks to evaluate the lessons which South Africa can learn from Chile so that they can fast-track their retirement reforms and re-write the new Pension Funds Act which incorporate both public and private sectors.

<p>Savremeni svetski tokovi u oblasti obrazovanja i izvr&scaron;ene reforme nastavnih planova i programa, uslovili su promenu obrazovnog sistema u i reformu geografske nastave u Srbiji u osnovnom obrazovanju. Dobro struktuiran geografski kurikulum Srbije obezbediće adekvatno mesto geografiji u na&scaron;em obrazovnom sistemu.</p> / <p>Modern world actions in the field of education and reformscarried out in teaching plans and programmes have caused changes in the educational system and reforms of geaography teaching in Serbia on the level of primary school education. Well structioral geographic curriculum of Serbia will provide a suitable place for geography in our educational system.</p>