Die Corona-Pandemie hat die Weltwirtschaft im ersten Halbjahr 2020 in eine tiefe Rezession gestürzt. Mit der schrittweisen Lockerung der Shutdown-Maßnahmen setzte spätestens im Sommer überall die Erholung ein. In Deutschland wird die Wirtschaftsleistung im Jahresdurchschnitt voraussichtlich...

The United Nations Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) on financing development is at a critical juncture. It was off track before the Covid-19 pandemic struck and there is now a very real risk that it will veer even further off course without bold corrective action. Covid-19 has served to...

Over the past ten years there has been a massive growth in call centres worldwide. These centres are said to represent the most dynamic growth area in white-collar employment internationally since the mid 1990s. Yet the footloose and global nature of the industry means that jobs will always be...

This new collection critically examines the new global policy of 'good governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This book redresses the balance. It places the prefix 'good', and exactly what that means, under the...

In this study, we contribute to the evaluation of the performance of the German science and research system by analyzing the dynamics of transnational patent filings of German inventors in an international comparison over the past 20 years. Besides country-specific analyses, we further...