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Individuelles Umwelthandeln und Klimaschutz (IndUK) – Sach- und Schlussbericht
(kassel university press, 2016)
„Es ist absehbar, dass sich aus naturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsergebnissen allein keine Handlungsstrategien ableiten lassen, wie dem Klimawandel zu begegnen ist. Wie Menschen diesen wahrnehmen, welche Folgen er für sie hat und ob und in welcher Weise sie bereit sind, entsprechende Strategien tatsächlich umzusetzen, hängt stark von dem jeweiligen sozialen und kulturellen Umfeld ab“ (BMBF 2015; http://www.fona.de/de/9874). Vor diesem Hintergrund wurden im Rahmen der Sozial‐ökologischen Forschung im Themenschwerpunkt ...
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Politics of public policies in India
(kassel university press, 2016)
The focus on poverty and inequality in development discourse has generally been an acknowledgement of the gaps between the poor and the affluent. This is seen as an economic condition linked to livelihoods and employment deprivation, or a condition rooted in the broader socio-cultural moorings of the society creating entitlement and capability deprivations. However, the issue here is how inequality concerns impact and are reflected in public policies. What are the drivers that determine the interests and structural ...
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Economic growth and employment generation nexus: Insight from Ghana
(kassel university press, 2016)
Ghana is undoubtedly regarded as one of the leading lights in Africa in terms of strong growth performance since the wind of economic reforms blew across Africa in the 1980s.The challenge has, however, been the effect of this remarkable growth story on the creation of sufficient jobs for the increasing working age population. This paper uses arithmetic computation and econometric estimation to measure and assess the employment effect of the level and sources of growth on the employment generation. It further shows ...
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India’s Macroeconomic Policy Regime and Challenges of Employment
(kassel university press, 2018)
On would hardly quibble with the view that eradication of poverty and promotion of decent work depends on sustained and inclusive economic growth, and not simply high rates of growth per se. This of course requires necessary intervention on several fronts, in particular adequate macroeconomic space for national governments while being open to equitable multilateral trading systems. Investments in physical and social infrastructure with due emphasis on rural areas, necessary structural reforms, appropriate fiscal and ...
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Self-help groups for India’s financial inclusion
(kassel university press, 2017)
Ensuring accessibility to credit to the poor self-employed households is a critical concern for many developing nations. Self-help groups (SHG) formed by women in the developing countries help them to access financial intermediaries and access credit for various income-generating activities. In case of India, SHGs are formed either through state-assisted SHG-Bank Linkage Programme (SBLP) or through private initiatives of micro finance institutions (MFIs) or NGOs. Under the former, the groups access formal banking ...
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Microfinance through Women Self-Help Groups (SHGs) for Grass-root level Empowerment: An Empirical study of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
(kassel university press, 2016)
Microfinance, as a concept, involves providing financial services, particularly small credit, fund transfer, and insurance to the unemployed, low-income group, and those who do not have easy access to the banking system. It has emerged as an active agent of financial inclusion, ensuring economic, and social upliftment of the unprivileged. Microfinance is being operated through two channels Self-help Group-Bank Linkage Programme (SBLP) and Micro-finance Institutions (MFIs). The special characteristic of SBLP is its ...
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Überregionale Potentiale lokaler Innovationsimpulse
(kassel university press, 2012)
Technische und soziale Innovationen gelten als Schlüssel zur Energiewende: Sei es die Erzeugung und Nutzung von Ökostrom, die Beteiligung von Bürgern an Bürgersolaranlagen oder der Bau von Bioenergiedörfern – in den vergangenen zehn Jahren konnten sich verschiedene Neuerungen im Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien auf dem Gebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ausbreiten und damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Klimaschutz leisten. Doch wo und unter welchen Bedingungen werden zunächst kleine und lokal begrenzte Innovationsimpulse ...
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Transformations of traditional landuse systems and their effects on development opportunities and people’s livelihoods in Northern Ghana
(kassel university press, 2015)
Agricultural land in Northern Ghana was under the traditional arrangements till recent times. Small-scale farmers and their families could collect water, firewood, fodder andseasonal fruits or carried out hunting on communal lands, owned by local chiefs and fetish priests, under the provisions made by customary laws.Recent developments in this area include up-scaling of the mining industry, large scale commercial agriculture projects and cultivation of biofuel crops. All these developmentschemes are affecting access ...
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Decency of primary occupations in the Indian fishing industry
(kassel university press, 2018)
Indian fisheries are moving from artisanal to capitalistic methods of production. As this transformation takes place, many traditional fishers are forced to seek employment on trawlers and other fishing vessels owing to their lack of a capital base to purchase modern vessels themselves. Competition among trawlers can lead to cost reducing strategies that lower the quality of working conditions for those employed in these vessels. This paper is an attempt to assess the working conditions of these workers through the ...