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This 2014 Article IV Consultation highlights that Brazil's growth has decelerated in recent years. The boost from decade-old reforms, expanding labor income, and favorable external conditions, which enabled consumption and credit-led growth and underpinned sustained poverty reduction, has lost steam. Investment has been sluggish, reflecting eroding competitiveness, a worsening business environment, and lower commodity prices. The IMF staff projects negative output growth of 1 percent in 2015, with some drag from tighter fiscal and monetary policies and from the cuts in investment by Petrobras

International marriages (kokusai kekkon) in Japan have been steadily increasing with one out of eighteen matches involving a foreign spouse in 2008. Class intersects with race and gender in the discourse of international marriage in Japan. Whereas most research focuses on international marriages between rural Japanese men and Asian brides, the media's emphasis is on Japanese women who marry Western men. The main aim of this article is to expand the discussion on international marriage by looking at couples in which the male spouse is coming from a developing country. I will do this by looking at Sub-Saharan African spouses of Japanese women in Japan. By switching the perspective to men coming from developing countries marrying women in wealthier nations, new insights on the intersections of gender, class and race can be explored while conventional notions surrounding international marriage, such as hypergamy, are challenged.

Seit der Weltkonferenz "Pädagogik für besondere Bedürnisse" vor zwanzig Jahren in Salamanca vollzogen sich in internationalen bildungspolitischen Diskursen Wandlungen der Bedeutung von inklusiver Pädagogik, im programmatischen Kontext von Sonderpädagogik und "Bildung für Alle". Im Zentrum dieses Buches steht die in Fragen von Bildung und Kultur wichtigste Internationale Regierungsorganisation, die UNESCO, sowie eine ihrer organisatorischen Untereinheiten, die in den 1990er Jahren für das sogenannte Special-Needs-Education-Programm verantwortlich zeichnete. Es werden die Fragen behandelt, warum, wie und wann es bei der Entwicklung der Idee für Inclusive Education zu einem imaginierten Konzept zur Veränderung des Verständnisses von Sachverhalten und der thematischen Schwerpunktsetzung der ausgewählten Organisationseiheit der UNESCO kam.Die Arbeit schließt an eine zeitgenössische Forschungsrichtung in der vergleichend-historischen Bildungsforschung an, die sich Internationale Organisationen als Analyseeinheiten wählt und für die auf die Mikro-Ebene der Binnenstrukturen von Akteuren abzielende Analyse eine intern-differenzierende Perspektive einnimmt.Als theoretischer Bezugsrahmen werden Einsichten und Analysemittel aus der neo-institutionalistischen Organisationsforschung herangezogen. Als Quellenbasis dienen Dokumente aus den einschlägigen Bibliotheks- und Archivbeständen der UNESCO in Paris, die inhaltsanalytisch ausgewertet wurden

Cover; THE LIBERAL-WELFARIST LAW OF NATIONS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Introduction; PART I: The modern law of nations; Introduction; 1: The law of nations of the Moderns: a new discipline; 2: The liberal purpose of the modern law of nations: liberty, equality and security for states; 3: State self-interest and self-esteem; 4: The law of nations of the Moderns between free enterprise and protectionism; 5: The welfarist purpose of the modern law of nations: the happiness of the people and the advancement of states.

While devoting fine attention to the stuff of everyday life, Deborah Cass was also a brilliant scholar. Although the deep sense of loss and sadness at Deborah's death remains, it is wonderful to have her writings as a continuing source of inspiration and consolation. In them, we continue to hear Deborah's firm, clear voice, her appreciation of language, her seriousness, her curiosity, her sensitivity and her wry humour.' —Professor Hilary Charlesworth This collection honours the work of Deborah Cass, 15 February 1960 – 4 June 2013, a brilliant Australian constitutional and international lawyer. Deborah studied at the University of Melbourne and Harvard Law School and taught at Melbourne Law School, The Australian National University and the London School of Economics. A member of The Australian National University's Centre for International and Public Law from 1993 to 2000, Deborah's work offered illuminating new perspectives in a range of fields, from the right to self-determination, critical international legal theory, and feminist legal theory to the international trade law system. The title of this edited collection draws on one of her articles, 'Traversing the Divide: International Law and Australian Constitutional Law' (1998) 20 Adelaide Law Review 73. This book evolves from a symposium held to draw together academics from around the globe to reflect on Deborah's extensive scholarship and contributions to public law and international law, and to examine how her work is of value to current domestic and international law issues. The pieces selected for this volume both remind us of Deborah's outstanding academic career and provide important insights on current public law and international law pressing issues.

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