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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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Wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing? Gewerkschaften in Ghana und Benin, die Förderung der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung und die Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
(kassel university press, 2016)
Gewerkschaften im ‚Globalen Süden‘ bestreiten viele ihrer Aktivitäten nicht über Mitgliedsbeiträge, sondern über Gelder externer Organisationen. Diese Finanzierung wirkt sich auf die gewerkschaftliche Agenda, Mitgliederstruktur, interne Demokratie und gewerkschaftlichen Machtressourcen aus. Die sozialdemokratische Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) ist der wichtigste deutsche Geber für ausländische Gewerkschaften. In der vorliegenden Studie wird ein Kooperationsprojekt zwischen der FES sowie beninischen und ghanaischen ...
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Dealing with digital information richness in supply chain management
(kassel university press, 2015)
Information is one of the key enablers of modern business. The ever expanding availability of digital information, however, brings with it the challenge of handling this information appropriately. While related challenges now appear in our daily lives, this is even more the case along supply chains, where a multitude of actors is involved. This doctoral thesis addresses the topic by linking theoretical rigor with practical relevance. By assessing the current state of research in supply chain management represented ...
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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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Verwaltungsmodernisierung im Westlichen Balkan im Kontext der EU-Erweiterung am Beispiel von Albanien, Mazedonien und Montenegro
(kassel university press, 2016)
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht das Verhältnis zwischen den Ländern des Westlichen Balkans und der EU unter dem Gesichtspunkt der öffentlichen Verwaltung. Wichtig ist in diesem Zusammenhang die Darstellung des Status quo der öffentlichen Verwaltung in den drei Untersuchungsländern. Neben der Entwicklung seit der Demokratisierung wird auch die historische Entwicklung der öffentlichen Verwaltung in diesen drei Ländern näher beleuchtet und gefragt, wie frühere Zusammenhänge und Entwicklungen bis in die Gegenwart ...
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The formation of sustainability strategies
(kassel university press, 2015)
The formation of sustainability strategies is hardly addressed in sustainability research. Instead, it is often implicitly assumed that sustainability strategies are planned and implemented topdown. In contrast, the formation of strategies is a frequent topic of discussion in strategy research where a consensus has been established that strategy making resides on a continuum between planned and emergent.This dissertation sets out to narrow this gap by investigating the formation of sustainability strategies from a ...
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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 ...
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Timber consumption and sustainable forest use
(kassel university press, 2016)
The global demand for timber is increasing, with prognoses for the EU showing particularly high growth to meet renewable energy targets. However, there are limited options to meet rising timber demands within the EU, and global land competition to meet world food, energy and material needs, as well as to conserve high value nature areas, is increasing. This dissertation addresses the knowledge gap between the pressures of increased land use abroad and the underlying drivers of land use change. It argues that there ...