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Aktueller Kommentar Jänner 2021
Home Publikationen Aktueller Kommentar Aktueller Kommentar Jänner 2021 No one is safe, until everybody is safe! Zur globalen Dimension der COVID-19 Pandemie Der nationale Egoismus im Umgang mit der COVID-19 Pandemie widerspricht nicht nur dem Gebot der globalen Solidarität, sondern ist politisch kurzsichtig und ökonomisch fahrlässig. Dringend nötig sind internationale Kooperation und der rasche [...]
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Shifting the Course? The Impact of Chinese Finance on Extractivism in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
China’s demand for commodities and its role as an investor and creditor in the global periphery are closely connected. In the past two decades, China’s outward activities have perpetuated commodity-based development models in the Global South, which are linked with negative socio-ecological effects. In this paper, we assess China’s engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, by analysing [...]
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Cooperation or confrontation? Public and private governance and smallholders’ incomes in the cocoa sector in Ghana and in Côte d’Ivoire
The production and consumption of raw materials such as coffee, cocoa and cotton have created extensive but unequal links between the Global North and Global South. The structure and governance of these links have changed over time, but have been determined mainly by a few multinational companies since the 1980s. Within global production networks, these companies trade these commodities or process [...]
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Der kollektive Reinkorporationsprozess der ehemaligen FARC Kombattant*innen in Kolumbien
Die Schaffung und langfristige Sicherung von Frieden ist seit langem ein Entwicklungsziel – doch die Welt, v.a. der Globale Süden, ist nach wie vor von Gewalt und Krieg auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen und in unterschiedlichen Formen geprägt. Konfliktprävention und Friedenssicherung sind Ziele vieler internationaler und nationaler Organisationen und haben auch Eingang in die Agenda 2030 der UNO [...]
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Success factors of transformative learning for sustainable development
The human capacity to learn through formal or informal education is considered a key resource for achieving sustainable development on a global scale. Accordingly, the UN-Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals refer to education and its transformative power by integrating it both as a cross-cutting issue and as target 4.7. However, there are many different practical, pedagogical and [...]
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Value Capture and Distribution in Second-Hand Clothing Trade.
The Master thesis of Ms. Linda Lampel with the title “Value Capture and Distribution in Second-Hand Clothing Trade. The Role of Charity Discourses, Commercial Strategies and Economic and Political Contexts” analyzes second-hand clothing trade based on a global production network (GPN) perspective. Given the large-scale geographic reorganization of production at the global level since the 1970s, [...]