Oil, Gas and Minerals: The Impact of Resource-Dependence and Governance on Sustainable Development

It has often been argued that oil, gas and minerals may have a negative impact on development as measured by income per capita. This does not say much about sustainability, which is critical for developing countries whose economic growth derives primarily from the exploitation of exhaustible resources

Privatisierung des Krieges und Auslagerung öffentlicher Dienstleistungen : Herausforderungen für die humanitäre Aktion

Einführung Der Irakkrieg hat ein Schlaglicht auf die immer wichtigere Rolle privater Militärfirmen („private military companies“) in bewaffneten Konflikten geworfen. Die Beispiele amerikanischer Staatsbürger, die für die Firma Blackwater arbeiteten und an Gefechten in Falludscha teilnahmen, sowie von Beschäftigten der CACI International und der Titan Corp., welche an den Misshandlungen der Häftlinge im Gefängnis von Abu Ghraib beteiligt waren, verdeutlichen die immer umfassenderen Aufgaben, d..

Was kann gegen den Ressourcenfluch getan werden ?

Einleitung Afrika erlebt zurzeit das stärkste Wirtschaftswachstum der letzten zwanzig Jahre. Die durchschnittliche Wachstumsrate der afrikanischen Volkswirtschaften für 2007 sollte sich gemäss einem am 20. Mai 2007 an der Jahrestagung der Afrikanischen Entwicklungsbank in Schanghai vorgestellten Bericht auf 6% belaufen. Diese Wachstumsbeschleunigung ist einerseits auf eine Zunahme der weltweiten Nachfrage nach Rohstoffen – in erster Linie Erdöl – und andererseits auf höhere Investitionen im R..

Narrativas, políticas y resultados del desarrollo alternativo en la región andina

Since the early 2000s, many Latin American countries achieved remarkable economic growth coupled with poverty and inequality reduction, largely due to the pursuit of a centuries-old pattern of commodity exports. The end of the commodity price super-cycle in 2014 puts some of these development gains in jeopardy, raising anxiety among emerging middle classes wary of slipping back into poverty. Drawing on a rich intellectual heritage, Latin American leaders have designed novel approaches in the pursuit of sustainable development. Alternative development narratives brought to the fore by left-wing governments have emphasised notions such as buen vivir1, arguably the most influential and revolutionary proposition originated in the region since different variants of the dependency theory. What is less clear is the extent to which competing ideologies and narratives have translated into diverging outcomes, be it with regard to (neo-) extractivism, ecological sustainability or the rights and cultural identity of indigenous peoples, or simply in terms of economic diversification. This chapter introduces the thematic issue of International Development Policy, which deals with recent paradigmatic innovations and development experiences in Latin America, with a particular focus on the Andean region

Theoretical basis of the concept ‘social-demographic capital of the family’

In modern socio-economic conditions, the Russian family has embarked on a path that leads it to the need to change and strengthen its multifunctional strategies for the upbringing and socialization of children. In this context, the process of socialization involves the use of certain socio-demographic resources of the family. The purpose of this work is to analyze the problem of socialization of children through the prism of social and demographic capital of the family, determining its variables and indicator.В современных социально-экономических условиях российская семья взошла на путь, который ведет ее к необходимости изменять и усиливать свои многофункциональные стратегии по воспитанию и социализации детей. В данном контексте процесс социализации сопряжен с использованием определенных социально-демографических ресурсов семьи.Целью данной работы является анализ проблемы социализации детей через призму социально-демографического капитала семьи, определения его переменных и индикатор

Corporate Security Responsibility: Towards a Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Research Agenda

The political debate about the role of business in armed conflicts has increasingly raised expectations as to governance contributions by private corporations in the fields of conflict prevention, peace-keeping and postconflict peace-building. This political agenda seems far ahead of the research agenda, in which the negative image of business in conflicts, seen as fuelling, prolonging and taking commercial advantage of violent conflicts,still prevails. So far the scientific community has been reluctant to extend the scope of research on ‘corporate social responsibility’ to the area of security in general and to intra-state armed conflicts in particular. As a consequence, there is no basis from which systematic knowledge can be generated about the conditions and the extent to which private corporations can fulfil the role expected of them in the political discourse. The research on positive contributions of private corporations to security amounts to unconnected in-depth case studies of specific corporations in specific conflict settings. Given this state of research, we develop a framework for a comparative research agenda to address the question: Under which circumstances and to what extent can private corporations be expected to contribute to public security

الدين والتنمية: إعادة النظر في اللائكية كمعيار

حتى تاريخ حديث، كان الدين كمفهوم أساسي في  دراسة وممارسة التنمية، مهمشا نسبيا في الدوائر الجامعية والسياسية. ذلك لأن المفهوم والنظريات الأولى في التنمية كانت جد متجذرة في تقليد عصر الأنوار والحداثة. يعتبر هذا الاستبعاد مفاجئا وغريبا جدا إذا اعتبرنا أن المساعدة على التنمية تجد أصلها في البعثات التبشيرية والمبادرات ذات الوحي الديني في الحقبة الاستعمارية. واليوم، لا تزال التنظيمات الدينية لاعبا أساسيا في منظومة المساعدة. (...). هكذا، تتناقض اللامبلاة إزاء الدين والإيمان في دراسات وسياسات التنمية  بفرادة مع الدور الرئيسي للدين في الحياة اليومية للأفراد والمجموعات، وبدرجة خاصة في العالم النامي، حيث يكشّف التعاون الدولي في التنمية عن أنشطته