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Minerva-Gentner Symposium: Burchard of Mount Sion’s Descriptio Terrae Sanctae
(2023-03-09)
The Minerva-Gentner Symposium on Burchard of Mount Sion’s Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, organized by Ingrid Baumgärtner and Jonathan Rubin, was held at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, from 28 November to 1 December 2022. In the workshop, German, Israeli, Italian and British scholars discussed the challenges – on the level of content, textual philology and technology – of publishing this work in print and digital form. The focus of the discussion was on questions relating to the new edition of the Descriptio , ...
Masterarbeit
Burkina Faso Under the Presidency of Thomas Sankara – A Post-Developmental State ?
(2023-05)
Thomas Sankara, one of the most celebrated African idols, was president of Burkina Faso from 1983 until his assassination in 1987. The politics he realized with his government were vanguard in more than one regard: The country’s feminist politics queried patriarchy by promoting equal rights and duties for women and men in several different domains; along with the country’s citizens, migrants could participate in policy-making and thereby shape politics; redistribution was made a political goal aspiring to overcome ...
Dissertation
Entlasten statt Entlassen. Auswirkungen des digitalen Wandels auf die handwerkliche Arbeitswelt am Beispiel ausgewählter Gewerke.
(2023)
'Entlasten statt Entlasten', eine qualitative Studie zur Erforschung der Auswirkungen des digitalen Wandels auf die handwerkliche Arbeitswelt am Beispiel ausgewählter Gewerke.
Working paper
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 ...
Working paper
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 ...
Working paper
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 ...
Aufsatz
Essay zur Enttabuisierung von Klassismus
(2023)
Klassismus ist eine der wenigen Diskriminierungsformen, gegen die innerhalb Deutschlands, aber auch innerhalb der EU rechtlich nicht angegangen werden kann. Was die Thematisierung von klassistischen Diskriminierungen erschwert ist, dass diese überwiegend maskiert und häufig sprachlos erscheinen. Dabei mag Klassismus zwar verschwiegen sein, aber den-noch äußerst vielfältig auftreten und wirkt institutionell wie gesellschaftlich stark verwurzelt. Es geht bei dem Phänomen nicht alleine um Diskriminierung aufgrund einer ...
Working paper
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.
Working paper
Digitalisierung der hessischen Arbeitswelt
(2023-07)
In diesem Papier werden im Folgenden zunächst die Rahmenbedingungen in Form der digitalen Infrastrukturen sowie der Status Quo der (technischen) Digitalisierung am Arbeitsplatz dargestellt (Kapitel 2). Anschließend werden zentrale Herausforderungen technischer Art, von der IT-Sicherheit bis zur Produktsicherheit, aufgegriffen (Kapitel 3). Kapitel 4 geht dann zunächst auf die Struktur und den Stand der (digitalen) Wirtschaft ein, wobei regionale Unterschiede und Potenziale mit aufgegriffen werden. Daran schließt sich ...