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In Education, Learning, Training: Critical Issues for Development, renowned scholars and practitioners examine shifts in global education policy and practice over the last 50 years.
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The purpose of the paper is to explain why and how American universities have taken the lead in continuing education compared to their European counterparts. In a first step we will discuss different notions of continuing education and develop an analytical framework to handle its various forms....
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This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
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the development and bargaining power of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in relation to the EU. However, Africa's least developed … deficits in good government in many African countries, the EU bears responsibility for the fragile state of many African … economies. The self-interested trade policies of the EU and other world powers contribute to poverty and unsatisfactory …
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The article provides a general introductory overview of the (spatial) mobility of highly skilled/qualified persons and discusses the different terms of the mobility of the Highly Skilled, especially those of scientists. It outlines theoretical and empirical aspects of these movements and...
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This study examines the economic impact on Austria of three possible new EU free trade agreements: (1) an EU …-US agreement; (2) an EU-Canada agreement; and (3) an EUArmenia/Georgia/Moldova agreement. This is done with a computational model … economy. The US accounts for roughly one-quarter of extra-EU Austrian exports. Overall, the combined impact of the FTAs …
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of 2007/08 was not really a surprise -, and the five key requirements for restoring stability and efficiency in the EU …
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literature survey and a practical study of five mobile phones. In the literature survey WEEE management approaches in the EU and … identified and noted down for every removed component. This disassembly gave insight in how the WEEE management in the EU could … be adapted to improve the amount of component recovery. A final suggestion is to implement an EU objective open …
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