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Das Dispositiv der Zukunftsfähigen Entwicklung
Timpf, Siegfried - 2000
Wird über Nachhaltigkeit gesprochen, so stellt sich der Eindruck ein, es gehe um einen Begriff, den bestimmte Akteure benutzen, um mit ihm interessengeleitete Praktiken zu legitimieren. Der ironische Gehalt dieser rhetorischen Figur liegt in der Überschätzung des Begriffs der Nachhaltigkeit...
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Advancing and Resolving the Great Sustainability Debates and Discourses
Smith, Michael Harrison - 2009
gas emissions, biodiversity loss and natural resource degradation, freshwater extraction, air pollution, waste and …
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Fundacion Maquipucuna: an entrepreneurial Ecuadorian non-profit organisation
Ratten, Vanessa - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to describe Fundacion Maquipucuna's community-based entrepreneurship activities. Fundacion Maquipucuna is a unique non-profit organisation in the Choco-Andes region of Ecuador. An ethnographic study and review of the literature is conducted to analyse the cacao,...
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The relationship between net private capital flows and economic growth in emerging Asian economies
Vo, Xuan Vinh; Daly, Kevin James - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2004
Net private capital flows (Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Portfolio Investment and private credit flows) to emerging market economies declined significantly after the 1997 Financial Crisis. In 2002, the world's net private capital flows to emerging markets declined to the lowest level in the...
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How far has globalization gone? A tale of two regions
Campos, Rodolfo; Pienknagura, Samuel; Timini, Jacopo
que ningún sector desempeñe un papel preponderante. ; We study the globalization of trade in Latin America and Asia over …En este documento estudiamos la evolución de la globalización comercial en América Latina y Asia durante los últimos 25 … trade globalization that captures the ease of trading internationally with respect to trading domestically. The results …
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Das Dispositiv der zukunftsfähigen Entwicklung
Timpf, Siegfried - 2000
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Indien: Ein Gewinner der Globalisierung
Wolff, Joerg - 2006
, mit der Teilhabe Indiens an der Globalisierung. Dabei stellt er fest, dass die Reformpolitik der letzten zehn Jahre trägt … Indian participation in the globalization. He assesses that the reforms in India lead to economic and social process of …
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Social Dumping: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects
Dimitrova, Teodora - 2006
analyzing the nexus labour standards - labour market outcomes - globalization. The first part, Chapter 2, is a theoretical … analysis of the effects of globalization on the equilibrium labour market policy, employment and wages. The policy instrument … considered is a minimum wage set by the government and influenced by two lobby groups. Globalization is modelled as an increase …
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The political economy of child labor
Maffei, Alessandro - 2005
The phenomenon of child labor is widespread in developing countries and emotionally discussed in the media and public. At present there is a well-developed and fast growing economic literature on child labor which covers the various aspects of child labor. In the first part of the thesis we give...
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