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Trucking in the Eastern Bloc
(2023-03-10)
This article explores the tensions during the Cold War between the need to have infrastructure to enable truck transport in the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Using “shortage economy” as the theoretical framework to analyse the Eastern bloc the article shows restrictions the shortage economy imposed on investments in infrastructure. The Western management started in the 1980s to let the enterprises’ transports to be carried out by external truck transport service providers – a policy which is known as “outsourcing”. ...
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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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Mathematical Management
(2023-07-14)
Der Aufstieg des Fachgebietes Operations Research, das mathematische Modelle zur Steuerung von Wirtschaftsunternehmen bereitstellt, in der politischen Wissenskultur von Cold War Science der USA nach 1945 wird aufgezeigt und dann übergeleitet zur Institutionalisierung von Operations Research in den Universitäten von Europa und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Die Vorläuferorganisationen zur Deutschen Gesellschaft für Operations Research werden dargestellt und das Zusammenspiel der Jahrestagung dieser Gesellschaft mit ...
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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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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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Brazilian Development at a Standstill? Perspectives and Challenges for the New Lula Government.
(2022-12)
• Brazil has a standstill development syndrome as its development path swayed from extractivism to industrialization and back to extractivism.
• The prioritization of environmental protection and indigenous rights is the most significant novelty for Lula in 2022 compared to his previous governments.
• Lula's third mandate will not be a left-wing government due to the broadness of the coalition.
• Lula aims to improve people's livelihoods and reduce poverty by promoting industrialization. Therefore, international ...
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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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¿Transformación o persistencia del modelo extractivista? Los desafíos del gobierno de Gabriel Boric
(2022-04)
• La transición energética influye en las decisiones políticas de Chile
• Presidente Boric busca transformar el sector minero y generar neutralidad climática
• Las materias primas de Chile son importantes para la industria europea y sus tecnologías sostenibles
• Tres posibles escenarios futuros del modelo extractivista esta analizado
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Die Verkehrspolitik der DDR
(2023-03-15)
Der Traum der Staatssozialisten von großen LKW-Flotten konnte in den 1950er Jahren nicht in die Realität überführt werden. Die erwarteten Gewinne an Produktivität stellten sich wegen zahlreicher Hindernisse nicht ein. Während das westliche Management in den 1980er Jahren die notwendigen Bedingungen für das Outsourcing von Transportdienstleistungen sorgfältig erkundete, besaßen die staatssozialistischen Planer keine Idee von Geschäftsprozessen, welche Produktion und Transport verbanden. Neben unzulänglichen ...