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Energy security, poverty and vulnerability in Central Asia and the wider European neighbourhood
Slay, Ben - 2009
This paper seeks to disaggregate concerns about energy security within the wider European neighbourhood from the nation-state to the household, and particularly to poor households in the transition and developing economies of the former Soviet Union. It argues that two decades of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430840
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The new European strategy for growth and jobs (Europe 2020): Goals, instruments to monitor its implementation, institutional resources, implementation recommendation
Dinga, Ene; Băltăreţu, Camelia; Prelipcean, Gabriela - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313012
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To grow or not to grow: Belarus and Lithuania
Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Hochreiter, Eduard - 2021
s. A simple growth accounting model suggests that advances in education at all levels, good governance, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013429074
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Different choices, divergent paths: Poland and Ukraine
Hochreiter, Eduard; Kowalski, Tadeusz - 2022
education, governance and institutions. We ask whether the EU perspective and NATO membership played a role. We discuss the … economy inspired by the EU perspective; (b) Poland's more extensive and better-quality education; (c) Poland's greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374374
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Oil-led economic growth and the distribution of real household incomes and consumption in Azerbaijan
Walewski, Mateusz; Chubrik, Alexander - 2010
This paper analyzes the distribution of real household incomes and consumption growth in Azerbaijan between 2004 and 2009. Decile-specific price deflators were used to calculate real incomes and consumption dynamics. The analysis, which was based on growth incidence curves, showed that economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430859
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Wissensgesellschaft als Herausforderung für ländlich-periphere Regionen: Beispiele aus Nordostdeutschland
Stein, Axel; Wiegand, Timm Sebastian; Dehne, Peter; … - 2016
Die Heuristik einer dreidimensionalen Wissensgesellschaft wird in diesem Band aufgegriffen und weiterentwickelt. Die soziale, die ökonomische und die technische Dimension der Wissensgesellschaft werden im theoretischen Teil ausdifferenziert und anhand charakteristischer Ausprägungen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557376
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How well does education travel? Education and occupation with and without migration
Gächter, August; Smoliner, Stefanie - 2010
occupational levels for any given level of education in the two countries of interest: Austria and Germany. Migrant outcomes are … also being compared with home country outcomes, i.e. Serbia and Turkey. We find that education is imperfectly portable … occupational returns to education but migrants in Austria or Germany lag considerably behind. Middle and higher education in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345630
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Human capital: challenges for Russia
Mau, Vladimir - 2013
qualitative leap in the development of education, healthcare and the pension system. We need fundamental changes in these sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379766
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Gender gap in the CIS region
Rokicka, Magdalena - 2008
has shrunken after and during the transition period. On the other hand in such fields as secondary and tertiary education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430805
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The Framework Catalogue of Digital Competences
Jasiewicz, Justyna; Filiciak, Mirosław; Mierzecka, Anna; … - 2015
Operational Programme Digital Poland - "Priority axis III: Digital competences of the society" focuses on raising digital activity in order to allow fully use possibilities of high-speed Internet and new public e-services. It comprises four actions including Training activities for development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434786