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Weiterbildung: Institutionelle Grundlagen und Handlungsfelder
(2022-03)
Aus zwei Gründen gewinnt die Weiterbildung an Bedeutung: Einerseits entsteht im Zuge der digitalen und ökologischen Transformation der Arbeitswelt ein großer Qualifizierungsbedarf, weil sie zu einem Wandel von Berufsfeldern und -tätigkeiten führt. Andererseits spielt Weiterbildung auch mit Blick auf benachteiligte Gruppen am Arbeitsmarkt eine zentrale Rolle für deren Verbleib bzw. erfolgreiche Integration in Erwerbsarbeit. Allerdings ist die Ausgestaltung der Weiterbildung durch institutionelle Komplexität geprägt. ...
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Striking for the Common Good
(2022-08)
The re-emergence of massive strikes in the public education sector, predominantly in the more conservative, union-weak American South, has brought seismic change to the industry and its workers. Solving the puzzle as to why these strikes were so successful against massive obstacles could beget better methods for organizing strikes in a period when neo-liberal reforms threaten public services around the world. Furthermore, an understanding of why these strikes were successful can contribute to the contemporary discourse ...
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How can the concept of gender knowledge explain the gendered nature of the European Recovery Fund “NextGenerationEU”?
(2022-08)
The Covid-19-pandemic reproduced many long-existing gender inequalities and created new ones: women are over-represented in underpaid sectors such as the health care sector and were faced with the double burden of paid and reproductive work in the household, when kindergartens closed. As an answer to the global pandemic, the European Union (EU) implemented a recovery package, the #NextGenerationEU (NGEU) Fund. However, this fund reproduces existing gender inequalities, as most of the money is directed to male-dominated ...
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Langzeitpflege in Deutschland
(2022-08)
Deutschland ist eine der am schnellsten alternden Gesellschaften der Welt. Bereits im Jahr 2020 waren 24,1 Millionen Deutsche 60 Jahre oder älter (Statistisches Bundesamt 2022) und es wird prognostiziert, dass diese Gruppe bis 2030 auf 30 Millionen anwachsen könnte. Allein die Bevölkerung ab 80 Jahren wird sich im gleichen Zeitraum von 5,4 Millionen auf rund 10,5 Millionen verdoppeln. Im Jahr 2050 könnten in der Bundesrepublik somit fast doppelt so viele Ältere Menschen wie Kinder und Jugendliche leben (Statistisches ...
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20 Jahre Kumulieren und Panaschieren
(2021-02)
Mit dem Gesetz zur Stärkung der Bürgerbeteiligung und der kommunalen Selbstverwaltung vom 23. Dezember 1999 wurde in Hessen ein neues Kommunalwahlrecht eingeführt. Seitdem können Wähler bei hessischen Kommunalwahlen Kumulieren und Panaschieren. Gleichzeitig ging mit der Einführung des neuen Wahlrechts in Hessen das „Jahrzehnt der Demokratisierungsnovellen“ (Dreßler 2010: 8) zu Ende, das mit Einführung der Direktwahl der Bürgermeister und von direktdemokratischen Bürgerentscheiden zum 1. April 1993 angebrochen war. ...
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Does Political Resource Curse Really Exist? Evidence from the Rentier States in the Greater Middle East
(2023)
This Extractivism Policy Brief shows:
• Oil rents may affect the political regimes through influencing both defense and non-defense expenditures.
• Defense expenditures are considerably influenced by oil rents fluctuations and the quality of political system.
• The rent-seeking by incumbent autocrats may take the form of misappropriation of government revenues away from public services towards patronage.
• Being a ‘political curse’, natural resources could be detrimental to democracy and enhance regime ...
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Environmental Tax Reform in Latin America
(2023)
• Latin American countries need to implement an agenda of green tax reforms to adapt their current development path and better respond to climate change. The decarbonization of the energy matrix is essential to mitigate future challenges.
• These governments have the potential to raise environmentally oriented taxes to generate additional revenues. Objective should be to adapt to the energy transition, attenuate extractivism and promote better income distribution and growth.
• The design and implementation of green ...
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Foreign Capital and Economic Development
(2023-07)
The Irish political economy is notable for the sustained and central role of foreign investment in driving economic growth, notably via the commercial activities of multinational corporations, and more recently financial services. Beginning in the 1950s, the Irish state began to move away from its protectionist policies of import-substituting industrialization, and transitioned towards a liberalized, export-led industrialization model of economic growth in order to achieve its developmental catch-up. This has resulted ...
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Natural Resources, Raw Materials, and Extractivism: The Dark Side of Sustainability
(2022)
• Extractivism is the dark side of sustainability
• raw materials and primary commodities are the backbones of the global economy
• extraction and export of raw materials lead to Extractivism understood as a development model
• Extractivism is persistent, prone to crisis, and affects domestic and international constellations
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Gold Mining (artisanal gold mining): Is it an engine of development in Mauritania?
(2023)
• In 2021, Mauritania exported approximately 13 million tons of iron, 20% of which was bound for Western Europe.
• The economic structure of this country is increasingly rent based.
• The extractive sector does not act as a catalyst for the country's development. Its contribution to poverty reduc-tion remains insignificant.
• Poverty remains a significant feature of the country, ranking 157th out of 189 according to the Human Development Index in 2020.