Corona-Gesundheitsschock – Seuchengefahr für die Menschheit -- Weltweite Wirtschaftsinstabilität -- Risiko der Euro-Zerfallsdynamik und EU-Aspekte -- Impfförderungsaufgaben und Kooperation sowie globale Führungsfragen.

We present a two-step approach of assessing whether major donors of foreign aid have met recent demands for less proliferated and better coordinated aid efforts. First, we calculate Theil indices revealing the concentration of each donor's aid on recipient countries and specific aid sectors....

Globalization has attained a prominent place on the sociological agenda, and stratification scholars have implicated globalization in the increased income inequality observed in many advanced capitalist countries. But sociologists have given much less attention to a different but increasingly...

Differences in regulations, technical standards and national medical cultures across EU member states created a highly segmented pharmaceutical market in Europe prior to the implementation of the Single Market Programme. The subsequent reduction in non-tariff barriers to trade would be expected...