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Colombia and the Coalition of the Pacto Histórico: From Extractivism to a Productive Economy?
(2022-07)
• The new Colombian president Gustavo Petro pushes for a transition from an extractivist to a productive economy.
• He needs to address the country’s enormous inequalities to achieve long-term peace.
• Agrarian reform and tax reform are urgent and part of the government’s plan.
• Mining will continue to be a strategic economic sector and a potential source of social conflicts that can weaken the action of
the new government if a dialogue with the affected groups is not established.
• With the new commodity boom ...
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Extractivism as an obstacle to innovation and technology transfer: The case of Algeria
(2023)
• The paper analyzes the lack of cooperation between universities and companies in Algeria.
• There is a lack of incentives for knowledge transfer between academia and industry.
• University research in Algeria is insufficiently focused on the needs of industry.
• Limited financial resources and infrastructure are barriers to research and innovation.
• Algeria needs to improve university-industry collaboration and strengthen the research landscape.
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Der Kasseler ‚Pakt gegen Armut‘
(2023-10)
Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert am Beispiel der Stadt Kassel die Bedingungen für eine gute Netzwerkarbeit in der Kommune. Dazu wird zunächst die Rolle der Kommune in einer nachhaltig gedachten Sozialpolitik vor Ort aufgezeigt um anschließend den Realprozess der kommunalen Netzwerkarbeit nachzuzeichnen. Hier wird die armutspolitische Ausgangslage in Kassel als Ausgangspunkt für einen Netzwerkprozess nachgezeichnet, den Kassler Pakt gegen Armut. Es wird die Akteurskonstellation skizziert und anhand eigener Erhebungen, ...
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Impact of Corporate Integrated Farm Solutions on Small Farmers
(2023-10)
This study explores the penetration of agribusiness on the peasantry in a Karnal zone of Haryana, with a focus on input supply networks. It elaborates the ways in which big corporations, particularly transnational agribusiness, penetrate the markets and production systems through the promotion of ‘integrated solutions’. The material basis of the establishment of corporate dominance through such solutions can be found in the emerging patterns of vertical and horizontal integration which are embedded within the macro ...
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Fintech, Philanthropy, and Development: Is KYC the core problem or solution for Digital Inclusion?
(2022-04)
This paper explores the relationship between digital identity data and fintech, showing that security, and not just financialisation, is the appropriate lens to examine technologies for financial access. These technologies are supported by the nexus of finance, development, and philanthropy, ostensibly to facilitate welfare policies. But they are also part of a global security imperative. This is because the need for digital identity databases emerges from regulations to counter terror finance. Examples from India ...
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Layers of Post-Development: De- and reconstructions in a world in which many worlds exist
(2021-02)
Post-Development as a critique of ‘development’ is almost as fuzzy and amoeba-shaped as the concept, discourse and practice it has long proclaimed as failed (Ziai 2015). While alternatives to ‘development’ have been called for, it remains unclear as to ‘alternatives to what?’ and ‘what kind of alternatives’ are in demand and by whom. The approach of this paper is to understand Post- Development as a set of theories, strategies and visions that all depart from a similar critique of ‘development’ as imperial and hegemonic ...
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Bridging the postcolonial political-economy divide. Towards a Theoretical Framework.
(2020-04)
Points of contact between the postcolonial studies’ field of research and international political economy (IPE) are rare. On the one hand, one can note a reluctance in postcolonial scholarship to open up for economic analysis. On the other hand, IPE literature has been somewhat resistant to take up the postcolonial critique. This paper offers an interdisciplinary approach by merging the two discrete disciplines on poststructuralist grounds, suggesting principles for a postcolonial-political economy approach and ...
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Ambivalences of decentralized renewable energies – Towards self-determination or reproduction of postcolonial power relations?
(2023-06)
The United Nations proclaimed the years between 2014 and 2024 to be the Decade of Sustainable Energy for All, and the SDG 7 emphasizes the necessity of universal energy access. Development policies increasingly see decentralised supply structures as a viable solution to achieve that goal. From a postcolonial perspective however, it is also relevant whether renewable decentralized en- ergies enable more local control and reduce dependency relations. Technology critics in the ‘70s and ‘80s saw this potential. In the ...
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Mutations of globalisation and local actors’ agency: phenomena of the Social and Solidarity Economy in Uganda’s Busoga region
(2022-02)
This paper examines transformations occurring in everyday life in Uganda’s Busoga region as a result of globalisation and the population’s responses to its manifestations. This is done with special emphasis on alternative economic practices, which can be classified as activities of the Social and Solidarity Economy. In the course of this study, several such practices have been encountered and turned out to be in a complex relationship with globalisation. A combination of postcolonial theory, the Post-Development ...