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Cluster policy as a development strategy: Case studies from the Middle East and North Africa
Benner, Maximilian - 2012
Cluster policy has become a method of choice for policymakers in many countries. Promoting strong localized industries is an appealing perspective for practitioners, as it can be seen as a way to anchor economic activity in regions in an era of globalization. If cluster policy is successful, it...
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Task force: development policy and strategies in East Asia by the case of chinese environment policy
Heberer, Thomas (contributor);  … - 2009
This report approaches current domains of development and tension within China. It was elaborated by students in the frame of a 'Task Force Seminar' in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). It addresses the issues of...
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The political economy of green growth: Illustrations from Southern Africa
Resnick, Danielle; Tarp, Finn; Thurlow, James - 2012
The concept of green growth implies that a wide range of developmental objectives, such as job creation, economic prosperity and poverty alleviation, can be easily reconciled with environmental sustainability. This study, however, argues that rather than being win-win, green growth is similar to...
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Successful' development models in the MENA region
Drine, Imed - 2012
This paper provides a synthesis of the country cases in the Middle East and North Africa: Oman, Bahrain, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates. Although these countries differ in terms of resource endowments and economic evolution, they share common aspects of successful development. This...
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Good governance as a concept, and why this matters for development policy
Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2012
Almost all major development institutions today say that promoting good governance is an important part of their agendas. Despite this consensus, 'good governance' is an extremely elusive objective: it means different things to different organizations and to different actors within these...
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Die Sachs-Easterly-Kontroverse: "Dissent on Development" revisited
Hielscher, Stefan - 2008
zunehmenden Interdependenzen, so dass die Entwicklungspolitik konzeptionell auf einem sicheren Fundament sozialstruktureller … Reziprozität aufgebaut werden kann. Zweitens fokussiert sie auf die gemeinsamen Interessen an Entwicklung und identifiziert auf … beitragen, die Anreizstrukturen in der Entwicklungspolitik und der Entwicklungspraxis zu reformieren – im Interesse der Armen …
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Kooperation statt Hilfe: Zur Theorie der Entwicklungspolitik aus ordonomischer Sicht
Hielscher, Stefan - 2012
Dieser Beitrag beinhaltet eine modifizierte Fassung des Vortrags, der anlässlich der Verteidigung der Dissertation des Autors an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg am 18. November 2010 gehalten wurde. Das Diskussionspapier vermittelt einen thesenhaften Überblick über den...
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Kooperation statt Hilfe: Rede und Presseerklärung anlässlich der Verleihung des Wissenschaftspreises der Plansecur-Stiftung 2012
Hielscher, Stefan - 2012
ordonomischer Beitrag zur Theorie der Entwicklungspolitik”, erschienen 2012 im Wissenschaftlichen Verlag Berlin (wvb). Aus diesem … Beitrag zur Theorie der Entwicklungspolitik”, published 2012 at wvb Berlin. Hence, the press statement formulates three …
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The Evolution of Development Thinking: Theory and Policy
Ranis, Gustav - 2004
This paper makes an effort to trace the course of development thinking and associated development policy over the past six decades. Section I focuses on the early Post-War Consensus, with theory focused on extensions of classical dualism theory and policy concentrating on creating the...
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Human rights impact assessments as a new tool for development policy?
Baxewanos, Fabiane; Raza, Werner - 2013
Development policy affects human rights in manifold ways. For example, trade agreements can have an adverse impact on the rights to health or food by making essential medicines or goods less accessible or available. Or large-scale investment projects influence indigenous rights when they entail...
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