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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 ...
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Bringing heterodoxy back into a world of pessimism
(2024-01-29)
In this Extractivism Occasional Papers’ volume, we brought together two first-wave scholars working on structuralism, class and development, Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira and Hartmut Elsenhans, and upcoming scholars – Ingrid Harvord Kvangraven, Fernando Rugitsky and Johanna Siebert – who build on structuralist thinking to present their own take on the importance of revitalising it. Our project follows the Hegelian dialectics and seeks aufheben, in the sense of learning from the past, preserving what is valuable, and ...
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Les dynamiques socio-économiques du Hirak Algérien : un facteur souvent ignoré
(2023-09)
• In 2019, Algeria experienced one of the largest popular uprisings the country has ever seen in its post-independence history: the Hirak.
• The crisis had been looming for several years, as shifts in the political elite increased. The end of the financial boom exacerbated this process.
• Between 2015 and 2018, oil and gas export revenues declined by an average of 14% per year.
• Socioeconomic factors ultimately contributed to the outbreak of the Algerian hirak.
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Climate Change and Consumption Patterns in Latin America: The Urgency of a Structural Transformation
(2024-02)
• Climate change obstructs Latin America's development, affecting the economy, society, and the environment. A substantial investment is needed for the 2050-2070 deep decarbonization process.
• Latin America's unsustainable development in the last five decades has boosted consumption, employment, and poverty reduction but falls short in addressing chronic poverty and high-income concentration. This undermines economic dynamics and exposes society to climate change impacts.
• A just climate transition requires changes ...
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Authoritarian escalation in Peru : Extractivism, racial discrimination and democracy
(2023-06-23)
• The current political crisis in Peru manifests long-standing social discontent over historical ethnic, class and environmentalinequalities that are largely created and supported by the extractivist model.
• Traditionally, extractivism has developed in the country in a localized authoritarian manner. Emergency decreessuspending fundamental rights and guarantees and opening spaces for the disproportionate use of public force happenedonly in particular zones of social conflict.
• Extractivism has imposed itself ...
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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.
Working paper
Armutsreduktion durch Partizipation?
(2006-01)
Ab 1991 verfolgte die bolivianische Sozialfondspolitik primär über eine Förderung sozialer Infrastruktur und lokaler Partizipation eine Strategie zur Reduktion von Armut. Ein 1994 in Bolivien eingeführtes Gesetz zur Volksbeteiligung, die Ley de Participación Popular, unterstützte diese Bemühungen, indem es eine partizipativ ausgerichtete Kommunalpolitik ermöglichte, welche eine stärkere Berücksichtung der lokalen Bedürfnisse sicherstellen sollte, um so die Bedarfsgerechtigkeit, Effizienz sowie Nachhaltigkeit der ...
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Searching for a substitute: Algeria and Venezuela as energy security alternatives for Europe?
(2024-01-26)
• Venezuela und Algerien sind für die Europäische Union potenzielle, zukünftige Energiepartner.
• Die EU steht vor einer doppelten Herausforderung: Sie muss kurzfristige Alternativen für Gaslieferungen finden und sich langfristig einem green deal verpflichten. Dies erfordert einen grundlegenden Wandel der Zusammenarbeit zwischen EU mit ihren Energielieferländern.
• Algerien verfügt über großes Potenzial erneuerbarer Energien, es mangelt ihnen jedoch an Technologie und Kapital. Eine EU-Algerien-Energiepartnerschäft ...
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Energy Transition – Quo Vadis
(2023-02)
- Extractivism has shaped Ecuador for the last half century.
- The Yasuní initiative aimed at leaving about one fifth of Ecuador’s oil reserves underground
- Poor handling of the Ecuadorian government and the international community let it falter and finally fade
- Energy transition towards renewable energy sources might provide a new scenario in which supply side policies such
as leaving fossil fuels underground and fossil fuel non proliferation treaties might be (re --)tested