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The policy brief analyzes the results of the 2014 India general elections and examines the challenges for the new government. It argues that the biggest test before the new Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to manage the sky-high expectations of those who voted him to power.

How can the vocational training in India be improved and what needs do the companies have?

What reforms must governments initiate in order to ensure the sustainability of their societies? What examples of success can we identify by systematically comparing countries around the world? And who will shape the political and economic future in the 21st century?

What reforms must governments initiate in order to ensure the sustainability of their societies? What examples of success can we identify by systematically comparing countries around the world? And who will shape the political and economic future in the 21st century?

The considerable growth of Chinese direct investment in Germany in recent years is the focus of this policy brief. Cora Jungbluth argues that the German government should pursue the principle of a free trade and investment regime, while insisting that China’s government...

In 2013, 73 percent of the population of the European Union used the internet. And the number of users is still going up.

Globalization, understood as the economic, political and social interconnection of countries, leads to increased economic growth. On average, the more a country proceeds its interconnection with the rest of the world, the greater its economic growth will be. If real per...

Seit Beginn der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise sind die Ungleichgewichte auf den europäischen Arbeitsmärkten stark gewachsen. Mehr Arbeitsmarktmobilität in der EU und der Abbau von Mobilitätsbarrieren können helfen, drängende Herausforderungen wie schwaches Wachstum und hohe...

The narrative of two Ukraines – the existence of two separate cultural- political communities within one Ukrainian state.

Increased globalization between 1990 and 2011 caused a larger economic growth for the economies involved.