This dissertation examines the competiveness of the fair trade tea value chain through a comparative study of the conventional and fair trade tea value chains in Kabarole district, Uganda. By examining this economically important subject, it clarifies the process by which value chains compete for smallholder …

Due to financial constraints, armed forces are being down-sized, and due to the need for joint operations the organizational structure of the Dutch Armed Forces has changed drastically. Policy-making has been centralized. Navy, Army and Air Force are brought under one com-mand and support has been concentrated. …

As the government states that current students have a loan aversion, more students in my opinion seem to make more use of the loan services of the Informatie Beheer Groep (IBG). That was my starting point before I began this thesis. My point of view concerning student loans was that students do loan …

This paper focuses on three questions. Firstly, what causes civilian actors and the military to cooperate? Secondly, is civil-military cooperation limited to specific areas and, finally, how to decide to which civil-military alliances time and energy should be devoted? The authors describe an episode …

Op basis van een longitudinaal onderzoek onder jongeren en jong volwassenen afkomstig van verschillende opleidingen worden de volgende vragen beantwoord: -Welke verschillende opleidings- en werktrajecten zien we bij huidige meisjes en jongens?; - Hoe willen jongeren in de toekomst arbeid en zorgtaken …

This pilot study explores the reasons patients have for refusing chemotherapy, and the ways oncologists respond to them. Our hypothesis, generated from interviews with patients and oncologists, is that an ethical approach that views a refusal as an autonomous choice, in which patients are informed about …

'Information Operations' can only be understood in the broader context of change and continuity. 'Cyberspace' is, like land, sea, air and space, a dimension in which war can be waged. Where defence is a necessity while attack is a possibility. There is a close relationship between 'Information Based …

In an anonymous 4-person economic game, participants contributed more money to a common project (i.e., cooperated) when required to decide quickly than when forced to delay their decision (Rand, Greene & Nowak, 2012), a pattern consistent with the social heuristics hypothesis proposed by Rand and colleagues. …