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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 ...
Dissertation
Universität und solidarische Ökonomie
(2008-11-24)
RESUMO: A economia solidária é aqui apresentada como um movimento social emancipatório e como uma das formas de resistências das trabalhadoras e trabalhadores ao modelo de desenvolvimento capitalista. O movimento contemporâneo de economia solidária abrange o processo de produção, comercialização e finanças. A economia solidária é caracterizada pela posse coletiva dos meios de produção e pelo controle dos trabalhadores dos empreendimentos através de autogestão, cooperação e solidariedade. Os empreendimentos econômicos ...
Dissertation
Der zweite Golfkrieg (1990-1991)
(2006-05-12)
Die Arbeit analysiert die Gründe, die erst zur Golfkrise führten und dann zum darauf folgenden Golfkrieg. Es geht diesbezüglich darum festzustellen, ob die damalige US Regierung unter George Bush, die Invasion Kuwaits zum Ausbau der US-amerikanischen Hegemonie nicht nur in der Golfregion ausnutzte, sondern ob sie die Invasion begünstigte oder sogar provozierte, um als Hegemon in den internationalen Beziehungen herrschen zu können.
Aus Sicht der internationalen Mächte Konstellation ergab sich 1990, nach dem Fall ...
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 ...
Working paper
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
Working paper
Together?
(ICDD, International Center for Development and Decent Work, University of Kassel, 2012-01)
This paper explores the relationship between migrant leaders and labour rights activists starting with the acknowledgment that this is often a source of frustration for all subjects involved. The collaboration between organisations of migrants and those of workers is not always smooth and truly collaborative, yet foreign workers have an increasing importance in the negotiation of better labour rights in Europe. The topic is discussed by taking the case of migrant domestic labour in Italy and the experience of Italian ...
Dissertation
Political Education in Plural Societies: Using the Anti-Bias Approach to Challenge Oppression in Bombay and Berlin
(2012-10-29)
This study addresses the effectivity of the Anti-Bias approach and training methodology as a pedagogical political strategy to challenge oppression among student groups in the cities of Bombay and Berlin. The Anti-Bias trainings conducted within the framework of this study also become the medium through which the perpetuation of oppressive structures by students within and outside the school is investigated.
Empirical data from predominantly qualitative investigations in four secondary schools, two each in Bombay ...
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 ...