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Can Decent Work and Export Oriented Growth Strategies go together?
(kassel university press, 2014-08)
The present research paper takes the Nicaraguan Export Processing Zones as an exemplary case to investigate in how far it is possible for countries in the Global South to take steps towards Decent Work despite the pressures caused by export competition. In Nicaragua, export processing zones had a negative reputation for paying low wages and incompliance with trade union and workers’ rights. However, a process of Social Dialogue that has resulted in tripartite agreements is seen as an important factor for the sector’s ...
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The decency of women’s working conditions in peri-urban dairy buffalo production systems in the District Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
(kassel university press, 2014-05)
Equitable working conditions and fair payment for female workers are often lacking. To analyse the decency of women’s working conditions in dairy production systems in Pakistan, female workers (n=73) were asked about their on-farm activities in a semi-structured face to face interview. In addition, participatory research tools were applied to determine problems the women are facing. The research was carried out in 2011. The workload of female family members is enormous: it is the task of women to take care of the ...
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Identifying Employment Creating Sectors in India
(kassel university press, 2014-05)
For a labour surplus economy like India employment generation remains a perennial concern. While growth of GDP is supposed to address this problem, not all sectors of the economy are equally employment intensive. This paper attempts to identify the relatively more employment generating sectors within the major sectors of the economy by considering both forward and backward linkages of the sectors. A linkage based analysis is considered useful as it shows the creation of employment within the sector concerned as well ...
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Die VENUS-Entwicklungsmethode
(kassel university press, 2014)
Das Ziel des Forschungsschwerpunktes VENUS (Gestaltung technisch-sozialer Vernetzung in situativen ubiquitären Systemen), gefördert durch die 2. Förderstaffel der hessischen Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz (LOEWE), war die Entwicklung einer systematischen und interdisziplinären Entwicklungsmethode, welche die funktionalen und nicht-funktionalen Designaspekte von UC berücksichtigt. Die Entwicklung wurde durch ein interdisziplinäres Forschungsteam mit Experten aus den Bereichen ...
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(Re)configuration of Water Resources Management in Mongolia
(kassel university press, 2014-11)
In Mongolia 'water' as a concept is constructed by local people based on the values and norms in which it was rooted in the past. Rivers and its resources are considered gifts from "Naga" who is believed to be the snake lord for pure water resources, lakes, springs, waterfalls and rivers. However, stress over water resource availability has gradually increased. Therefore, water resource management has been one critical theme in politics and policies in Mongolia with respect to climate conditions and socioeconomic ...
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Farmers in Peri-Urban Regions: Socio- Economic Changes and Access to Finance Study for Indian Economy
(kassel university press, 2018)
Given the rapid pace of urbanization and expansion of cities, the peri-urban regions become important mostly because of their dynamic and transitional nature. This paper tries to capture the changing nature of socio-economic characteristics and access to different financial activities in the peri-urban regions of India in general and Karnataka in particular. More specifically, the paper examines these changing characteristics among the farmers of the peri-urban regions. Results reveal that urbanization has had impact ...
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Towards Interdisciplinary Design Patterns for Ubiquitous Computing Applications
(kassel university press, 2014)
Der vorliegende Band ist ein zweiter Technischer Bericht, der aus dem Forschungsschwerpunkt LOEWE-VENUS hervorgegangen ist. Aufbauend auf Band 1 der ITeG Technical Reports, der die VENUS-Entwicklungsmethode als kompletten Entwicklungszyklus vorstellt, wird hier herausgearbeitet, inwieweit Ergebnisse aus der Entwicklung dieser neuen interdisziplinären Gestaltungsmethodik bereits als Vorgaben in Form von Mustern standardisiert und wiederverwendet werden können. Durch diese Muster sozialverträglicher Informationstechn ...
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Care Extractivism and the Reconfiguration of Social Reproduction in Post-Fordist Economies
(kassel university press, 2019-04)
This paper suggests the concept of care extractivism as a space- and time-diagnostic tool to international political economics in post-fordist societies. Analogous to resourceextractivism, care extractivism depicts the intensified commodification of social reproduction and care work along social hierarchies of gender, class, race and North-Southas a strategy to cope with a crisis of social reproduction. Extractivist policies result in the creation of a cheap reproductive labour force.The paper analyses the current ...
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Women’s empowerment for sustainable rural livelihoods:
(kassel university press, 2018-12)
Agricultural interventions are designed on certain assumptions of empowerment that do not necessarily address the livelihood constraints of the rural women they set out to support. This is a failing that might be due to the omission of women’s voices expressing their understanding of empowerment and its relation to existing gender orders. Using primary data from the Upper East and Northern Regions in Ghana, we explored women and men’s notions of the processes and outcomes of empowerment. We began by understanding the ...