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Diese Dissertation untersucht ökonomische Sanktionen im Kontext der empirischen politischen Ökonomie. Obwohl sie aus drei unabhängigen Kapiteln besteht, ist das übergeordnete, verbindende Ziel dieser Forschungsarbeit ein Gesamtverständnis der Motivation und der Effekte von Sanktionen anzubieten, getragen von der generellen Idee der Wechselwirkungen zwischen ökonomischen Anreizen und politischen Zielen. Meine Forschung zeichnet die ökonomischen Restriktionen ab, mit denen sich die politischen Entscheidungsträger im Bereich der internationalen Beziehungen auseinandersetzen. ; This dissertation explores economic sanctions in an empirical political economy context. While consisting of three independent papers, it aims at providing a holistic understanding of the motivation and effects of sanctions in particular, and the interplay between economic incentives and political goals in general. My research delineates the economic constraints that policymakers encounter in the field of international relations.

College students and single noncollege adults defined the term date, differentiated dates from going out with a friend, and described their reasons for going on their most recent first date. Responses indicate that single adults vary more in their orientation toward dating (e.g., an emphasis on a lifelong relationship) than do college students. Sex differences in first date goals appeared only in the college sample. College men were more likely to report sexual goals, whereas college women were more likely to report goals reflecting friendship, date-to-date, and having fun. Results highlight the importance of several forms of uncertainty reduction, shed light on an application of predicted outcome value theory, and suggest that the nature of commitment may differ across age groups.

Family offices manage and coordinate a family's combined wealth whilst preserving the family legacy and protecting family interests. The families behind these family offices control a significant percentage of the GDP of developed economies, with consequences for financial markets. Despite its practical and academic relevance, the literature has hardly explored the concept of family offices. This book is a first step to introduce the domain of family offices. To this end, the author conducted case studies with managers and family members of 21 single and multi-family offices. By exploring goals, control and conflicts of these family office structures, Stephan Wessel contributes to consider this family-influenced organization an essential constituent of management research and an ever more prominent actor in today's global financial markets. Contents · Typology of Family Offices · Financial and Non-Financial Goals of Families · Formal and Informal Control Mechanisms · Interdependencies between Family Business and Family Office · Antecedents and Consequences of Conflict in Family Offices Target Groups · Researchers and students in the field of business management with a focus on strategic management, business governance and family business research · Families, managers and consultants in the market for family office services The Author Dr. Stephan Wessel wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Hack and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Carolin Decker at the Institute for Family Businesses at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar. The Editors The series Familienunternehmen und KMU is edited by Prof. Dr. Andreas Hack, Prof. Dr. Andrea Calabrò, Prof. Dr. Hermann Frank, Prof. Franz W. Kellermanns Ph. D. and Prof. Dr. Thomas Zellweger.

Two key debates are set to occupy the international agenda in coming months. On the one hand the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris will try to limit global warming to 2°C. On the other hand countries are due to set a new set of Millennium Development Goals for 2030. So far these two processes have remained separate. However the stakes are inextricably connected particularly in developing countries. This article presents a proposal before the Paris Conference that aims at reconciling development strategies and particularly poverty alleviation, climate mitigation and adaptation. This mechanism for climate and development convergence (MCDC) is based on sectoral basic needs indicators and on an output based aid approach. It relies on a voluntary participation and on a sectoral and flexible approach. ; L'année 2015 voit la conjonction de deux événements majeurs sur la scène internationale : la Conférence internationale sur le changement climatique et la négociation pour l'adoption de nouveaux objectifs de développement durable incluant la lutte contre la pauvreté. Ces deux dossiers ont été jusqu'à présent globalement traités de manière distincte, pourtant, les enjeux de développement ainsi que les réponses à apporter pour éviter une dérive climatique sont liés de manière inextricable, tout spécialement dans les pays en développement. Cet article présente une proposition en amont de la Conférence de Paris de 2015 qui ambitionne de réconcilier stratégies de développement, politiques climatiques et adaptation, en ciblant et soutenant une mise en œuvre effective des synergies entre ces deux champs de manière à ériger en priorité absolue la satisfaction des besoins fondamentaux et à dissiper le contentieux entre pays industrialisés et pays en développement sur l'engagement des pays en développement dans la lutte contre le changement climatique. Ce mécanisme de mise en convergence du climat et du développement (MCCD) promeut une approche basée sur une participation volontaire, sectorielle et flexible et ...

Two key debates are set to occupy the international agenda in coming months. On the one hand the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris will try to limit global warming to 2°C. On the other hand countries are due to set a new set of Millennium Development Goals for 2030. So far these two processes have remained separate. However the stakes are inextricably connected particularly in developing countries. This article presents a proposal before the Paris Conference that aims at reconciling development strategies and particularly poverty alleviation, climate mitigation and adaptation. This mechanism for climate and development convergence (MCDC) is based on sectoral basic needs indicators and on an output based aid approach. It relies on a voluntary participation and on a sectoral and flexible approach. ; L'année 2015 voit la conjonction de deux événements majeurs sur la scène internationale : la Conférence internationale sur le changement climatique et la négociation pour l'adoption de nouveaux objectifs de développement durable incluant la lutte contre la pauvreté. Ces deux dossiers ont été jusqu'à présent globalement traités de manière distincte, pourtant, les enjeux de développement ainsi que les réponses à apporter pour éviter une dérive climatique sont liés de manière inextricable, tout spécialement dans les pays en développement. Cet article présente une proposition en amont de la Conférence de Paris de 2015 qui ambitionne de réconcilier stratégies de développement, politiques climatiques et adaptation, en ciblant et soutenant une mise en œuvre effective des synergies entre ces deux champs de manière à ériger en priorité absolue la satisfaction des besoins fondamentaux et à dissiper le contentieux entre pays industrialisés et pays en développement sur l'engagement des pays en développement dans la lutte contre le changement climatique. Ce mécanisme de mise en convergence du climat et du développement (MCCD) promeut une approche basée sur une participation volontaire, sectorielle et flexible et ...

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Federal agencies are increasingly expected to focus on achieving results and to demonstrate, in annual performance reports and budget requests, how their activities will help achieve agency or governmentwide goals. Assessing a program's impact or benefit is often difficult, but the dissemination programs GAO reviewed faced a number of evaluation challenges--either individually or in common. The breadth and flexibility of some of the programs made it difficult to measure national progress toward common goals. The programs had limited opportunity to see whether desired behavior changes occurred because change was expected after people made contact with the program, when they returned home or to work. The five programs GAO reviewed addressed these challenges with a variety of strategies, assessing program effects primarily on short-term and intermediate outcomes. Two flexible programs developed common measures to conduct nationwide evaluations; two others encouraged communities to tailor local evaluations to their own goals. Congressional interest was key to initiating most of these evaluations; collaboration with program partners, previous research, and evaluation expertise helped carry them out. Congressional concern about program effectiveness spurred two formal evaluation mandates and other program activities. Collaborations helped ensure that an evaluation would meet the needs of diverse stakeholders."

Intro -- Contents -- A Poet's Response: De Rong Radio -- Contributors -- Foreword: From Live Aid to Live 8 -- Preface: the UN Millennium Campaign -- Introduction: History in the making -- Making Poverty History -- The UN Declaration of Human Rights, printed with comments -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- 'It's Positively Medieval': Challenging Some Preconceptions of History -- Inequality: A Modest Proposal? -- The Other, Man-made Tsunami -- Africa, the Crisis Continent? -- How the Modern-day Missionaries Called 'Human Rights Activists' Help Wreak Havoc in Africa -- Twenty Years with AIDS -- Reviving Democracy -- Celebrating the Heroes of Democracy -- Cinema in Control and Conscience: Moviemakers from 'Double V' to McCarthyism -- Time to Make War History As Well -- Islam: Clash or Dialogue of Civilizations? -- Conflict and Personal Liberty -- What Price Imprisonment? -- 'Places Without a Future': the Jarrow March and the Great Depression -- Reporters on the Line: Risk Taking and Conscience in the Former Soviet Union -- The Media's Fault? -- Genocide: the Violence and the Silence -- Change – and North Korea: Is Aid Really Making a Difference? -- The Dregs in the Pot of Gold: the Irish Experience of Exchanging Dignity for Racism -- Silent Suffering, Stoic Resistance: Human Rights Abuses of Women and Children in Latin America -- Pious Aspiration or a Tool for Change? The Significance of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- The Politics of Sexuality: Faith – the Final Frontier? -- Surviving Ourselves: Environment, Society and the Future of Our Civilization -- Greenbacks in the Garden of Eden: an Essay on How Not to Save the Rainforests -- Ourselves and Other Animals: the Ethics of Farming -- The Human Race – a Marathon, not a Sprint: the Millennium Development Goals and their Ethos

AbstractCollaboration can make sense when there is some sort of "collaborative advantage" to be gained, meaning organizations can achieve something together that they cannot easily achieve by themselves. However, the literature is essentially silent on how to identify collaborative advantage. This article addresses this shortcoming in the theory of collaborative advantage for public purposes by proposing a set of goal categories that may be used to help articulate collaborative advantage and introducing the use of visual strategy mapping as part of a facilitated group process to figure out what the collaborative advantage might be. Collaborative advantage, as it is normally understood, consists of shared core goals. Collaborative advantage for public purposes should take into account public values beyond shared core goals.

China's progressive assumption as a major actor on the African scene needs critical academic attention and examination. Although there are undoubtedly varied benefits, there are also concerns about whether China's win-win rhetoric is sincere or just empty propaganda. This paper contributes to the debate by examining the relationship between China and Africa through the lens of neo-colonialism. In this regard, the paper examines China's involvement in the tex-tiles and mining industries of Ghana as a case study to argue whether the partnership between China and Africa is one that actually promotes development or engenders a new trend of neo-colonialism. Since this research focuses on areas such as partnership (i.e., between Ghana and China) and illegal mining with its effects, it intersects four of the SDGs (clean water and sanitation [SDG 6]; sustainable cities and com-munities [SDG 11]; life below water [SDG 14]; and partnership for the goals [SDG 17].

119 p. ; This report presents an analysis of policy, governance and implementation arrangements to achieve health and well-being for all at all ages and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Member States of the WHO European Region. The analysis was based on a survey in 2019 that was completed by 29 Member States. Results show that Member States have prioritized implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and integration of the SDGs into relevant planning frameworks. Integration has been facilitated through the creation or adaptation of institutional arrangements with leadership from high levels of government and participation of all sectors of society. More action is required to advance governance and leadership for health and well-being through a more holistic lens that encompasses a life-course approach, considers the determinants of health and invests in preparedness, prevention and resilience. Mechanisms were identified that facilitated intersectoral collaboration and improved accountability. The findings can be used by health stakeholders to identify solutions that can be adapted to the specific contexts of their institution, community or country to support achievement of the health and well-being goals and ultimately the SDGs. Findings can also be used by multilateral organizations and development partners to inform their role in fostering change and creating an enabling environment for the achievement of the SDGs.

"Readers will learn about the first UN Sustainable Development Goal and what it takes to commit to ending poverty by 2030. Aligned to curriculum standards, this book also highlights key 21st Century content: Global Awareness, Public Policy, Health and Wellness, Civics Literacy, and Environmental Stewardship. Includes a table of contents, glossary of key words, index, author biography, sidebars, and infographics"--