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Since the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, the rules of world trade have not changed. They do not account for the fact that the nature of international division of labor is no longer the one that prevailed during the negotiations in the Uruguay Round...

The Millennium Development Goals have led to tangible progress in many developing countries. Once adopted, the United Nations' new global Sustainable Development Goals will additionally require industrialized countries to implement such standards beginning in 2016. But the...

The negotiations on the third bailout package for Greece are still going on, but the euro area has already paid a high price for it. The compromise on which it is based is clearly very controversial. Some of its critics believe that it does not make sense in economic terms,...

Showing what works: First insights from the scientific research accompanying the project "Leave No Child Behind! Municipalities in NRW take preventative action providing equal opportunities for all children."

Increases in income inequality have both growth-promoting effects (stronger performance incentives, as well as incentives to invest in one’s own human capital, to take risks, and to make investments) and growth-dampening effects (demotivating incentives, social tensions and...

Wars continue to ravage in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Refugees are wandering around aimlessly in the Middle East with many fleeing to Europe. Saudi Arabia and Iran are adding fuel to the flames. They are vying for supremacy while remaining highly suspicious of each other. A...

About ten days ago Alexis Tsipras, the Greek prime minister, announced that there was going to be a referendum, and thus terminated the negotiations on a new rescue package unilaterally.

In diesem Buch werden drei Impulspapiere für die Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie NRW zusammengefasst. Die Papiere befassen sind mit nachhaltigem Konsum von Kindern und Jugendlichen, nachhaltiger Partizipation von älteren Menschen und nachhaltiger Haushaltspolitik in Zeiten der...

The recently published “Five Presidents’ Report” proposes a reform of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) along four dimensions: economic, financial, fiscal and political. This policy paper summarises our assessment of the proposals. In view of the political circumstances,...

The assassination of tourists in Sousse is a call: Tunisia needs European help in implementing democracy and market economy as well as speedy and robust support in building up its security sector.