Due to a growing public awareness, in the last 40 years environmental impacts of development projects financed and supported by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have come into view. Since then, the member states have pressured both organizations to implement environmental...

Initial models of development debates on how to achieve economic growth have been added to by a focus on social issues such as education and political participation. These debates and discourses about development are shaped by international organizations (IGOs) as they produce reference/action...

The article provides an overview of the most important current EU initiatives contributing to sustainable finance. After an introduction on how the concept of sustainability entered the domain of European policy, the definition of sustainable finance from the EU perspective is discussed, as well...

Kompetenzfeststellungsverfahren sollen vielerorts die Integration junger Geflüchteter in Arbeit und Ausbildung unterstützen. Das wirft die Frage auf, wie die darin enthaltenen Aufgabenstellungen interpretiert werden. Kann hier von einer Übereinstimmung zwischen den Verfahren selbst, den...