Der vorliegende Artikel führt die wirtschaftlichen Erfolge Sachsens nach der Vereinigung im Wesentlichen auf zwei Ursachen zurück: Zum einen auf die lange historische Tradition als bedeutsamer Industriestandort, die nicht zuletzt auch Denken und Einstellungen der Menschen in Sachsen auf lange...

In Belgien ähnelt das konjunkturelle Muster sehr stark demjenigen der anderen westeuropäischen Länder. Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt expandierte im Jahr 2002 mit 0,8% knapp dem Durchschnitt Westeuropas entsprechend. Die Erwerbslosigkeit stieg spürbar an, und die Arbeitslosenquote lag bei...

Water pollution is a chronic crisis in Sudan that is rarely researched. However, it is combined with scarcity, disputes and uncertainty. In the current paper we introduce its concepts with emphasis on the growing problems of pollution combined with scarcity. A Case study of the growing problem...

Turkey's relatively recent engagement with sub-Saharan Africa has been the subject of debate among scholars and policymakers. Various attempts have been made to answer questions such as “why Africa?” and “why now?” but these have largely ignored two key variables explaining Turkey's...

Social policy is to a certain extent a philosophy, ideology, program to impact on demographics, employment of the population, standard, lifestyle and quality of life of the population, its income level and structure of consumption of material and cultural wealth, pension and other forms of...

The present paper presents an analysis of the key elements of Modinomics, defined as “everyone's participation, everyone's progress.” It investigates the reasons why Modinomics was necessary, the key elements of Modinomics, and how this policy was implemented, as well as two deep structural...

This paper aims at providing an ethical framework for rebuilding, reconstructing, restructuring and revitalizing human capabilities as a means to achieve social empowerment. It strives toward conceptualizing a certain set of guidelines built upon a notion of globally common human values. Using...

Formal private property rights (“FPPRs”) have been advocated as an important prerequisite to economic development: a legal right to property ownership motivates economic players to engage in economic activities when these activities yield property interests, and this, in turn, contributes to...

The post-war experience of developing countries leads to two depressing conclusions: only a small number of countries have successfully developed; and development theory has not produced development. In this article we examine one critical fact that might provide insights into the development...

Why, after 30 years of aid, were so many African countries no better off in the 1980s than they had been at independence? Why, indeed, were so many of them slipping back and earlier economic achievements being undermined?Concentrating on Sudan, the Poverty of Nations examined what had gone wrong...