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The proposal involves the establishment of 'welfare accounts' for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...
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In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has steadily increased. Ownership of development planning is propagated as major aim of bilateral and international development co-operation. Yet, the quality and performance of many local...
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Unresolved social dilemmas that inhibit pro-social behaviour are at the root of most pressing global environmental issues such as climate change, ecological degradation and water scarcity. Meeting these challenges through purely externally imposed (‘top-down’) solutions can be ineffective or...
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This chapter seeks to assess the main thrusts of Polish economic policy from 2007 to 2015, a period when the governing coalition of the Civic Platform (PO) and the Polish People’s Party (PSL) was in power, with a focus on measures designed to boost growth and streamline the country’s public...
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A substantial amount of development programming assumes that women have preferences or aptitudes that are more conducive to economic development. For example, conditional cash transfer programmes commonly deliver funding to female household heads, and many microcredit schemes focus on women’s...
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Der seit 1999 von der EU moderierte Dialog zur Konfliktschlichtung zwischen Regierung und Opposition galt mit dem endgültigen Abzug der EU-Vermittler Anfang Juni als gescheitert. Die größeren Oppositionsparteien boykottierten die vorgezogenen Parlamentswahlen im Oktober. Eyadéma versuchte...
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Die andauernde Kontroverse zwischen Regierung und Opposition um vorgezogene Parlamentswahlen blockierte die Demokratisierung und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung des Landes. Vermittlungsversuche der EU scheiterten vor allem an mangelnder Kompromissbereitschaft des Regierungslagers. Wie in der...
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Die undemokratische Präsidentschaftswahl und deren Folgen prägten die Innen- und Außenpolitik. Eine auch von der internationalen Gebergemeinschaft geforderte Regierung der Nationalen Einheit scheiterte an der Kompromisslosigkeit des Eyadéma Regimes und einer in sich zerstrittenen Opposition....
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Nachdem im Vorjahr der Oppositionsführer Olympio bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen um seinen Wahlsieg betrogen worden war, erwies sich die Beilegung des innerpolitischen Dauerkonfliktes zwischen Eyadéma-Regime und der Opposition trotz internationaler Vermittler als schwierig. Da die...
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The roadmap for democratisation and economic liberalisation, negotiated with the EU as a precondition for resuming aid, dominated foreign and domestic politics. Opposition parties entered the new national dialogue on reconciliation only reluctantly in view of the authoritarian attitudes of the...
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