Irland ist das Land der europäischen Peripherie, dem der spektakulärste Aufholprozess gelungen ist. Allerdings hat es, laut Dr. Michael Dauderstädt, Leiter des Referats Internationale Politikanalyse der Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn, diesen Erfolg auf Kosten seiner europäischen Partner...

"I argue that progress in understanding economic development (as in other branches of economics) must come from the investigation of mechanisms; the associated empirical analysis can usefully employ a wide range of experimental and non-experimental methods. I discuss three different areas of...

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common...