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The transfer of the Austrian dual system of vocational education to transition and developing countries.
The increasing international interest in the Austrian dual system of apprenticeship has triggered a trend to transfer this system, or parts of it, to foreign countries including developing and transition countries. This paper analyzes the trend from a developmental perspective. After a historic outline of vocational education in international development and the discussion of current global trends [...]
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Gläserner Bergbau? Transparenzinitiativen im extraktiven Sektor
Die steigende Nachfrage nach extraktiven Rohstoffen sowie der Rohstoffpreisboom der 2000er-Jahre haben in den letzten Jahren die Debatte über den mangelnden Beitrag von Rohstoffreichtum zu inklusiver Entwicklung intensiviert. Als eine zentrale Ursache, warum die Einnahmen aus Ressourcenabbau zu wenig zu wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung und Armutsminderung betragen, gilt die fehlende Transparenz von [...]
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Commodity dependence and price volatility in least developed countries: A structuralist computable general equilibrium model with applications to Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Mozambique
Many least developed countries (LDCs) face commodity dependence on the export and im-port side. This paper develops a structuralist computable general equilibrium model for commodity-dependent LDCs and simulates global commodity price shocks for Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Mozambique. Results show important macroeconomic and distributional effects. Although increasing export commodity prices are [...]
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Private sector development – business plan or development strategy?
Private sector development (PSD) has taken on an increasingly prominent role in international development cooperation. This note argues that the private sector has to play an important role in sustainable economic and inclusive development but points out three concerns for effective PSD interventions: PSD is not a “technical solution” but there are different theoretical approaches to the question [...]
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Private sector development – business plan or development strategy?
Private sector development (PSD) has taken on an increasingly prominent role in both the debates as well as budgets of international development cooperation in recent years. While the promotion of private sector activities in developing countries has for a long time been part of development cooperation strategies, in the past years there has been a shift towards a more proactive role of the [...]
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Private Sector Development
Diese Ausgabe der "Österreichischen Entwicklungspolitik" widmet sich dem Schwerpunkthema "Private Sector Development (PSD)". Dieses nimmt in den letzten Jahren in der internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit eine zunehmend prominente Rolle ein. Auch die Österreichische EZA hat PSD und die Einbeziehung der österreichischen Wirtschaft als einen der Eckpfeiler des neuen Dreijahresprogramms gewählt. [...]