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Poverty remains one of the greatest problems of our time, causing starvation and humiliation in poor countries and contributing to problems of conflict, migration and environmental degradation effecting also richer countries. This study provides a systematical analysis of today's donor strategies for development cooperation, which unite around the goal of poverty reduction. The most recent strategies of the World Bank and the German, British and Swedish official development agencies are compared and evaluated. Their broad consensus on goals and conceptual elements is comprehensively presented. Differences in accentuations regarding beneficiaries and implementation methods are highlighted. An empirical study of the poverty focus in project evaluations of the German Financial Cooperation rounds off the analysis by exemplarily pointing at the practical implications of the new strategies.

Poverty remains one of the greatest problems of our time, causing starvation and humiliation in poor countries and contributing to problems of conflict, migration and environmental degradation effecting also richer countries. This study provides a systematical analysis of today's donor strategies for development cooperation, which unite around the goal of poverty reduction. The most recent strategies of the World Bank and the German, British and Swedish official development agencies are compared and evaluated. Their broad consensus on goals and conceptual elements is comprehensively presented. Differences in accentuations regarding beneficiaries and implementation methods are highlighted. An empirical study of the poverty focus in project evaluations of the German Financial Cooperation rounds off the analysis by exemplarily pointing at the practical implications of the new strategies.

Das Gesundheitsdatenschutzrecht im Gesundheitswesen stellt trotz seiner hohen praktischen Relevanz eine der wohl undurchsichtigsten Querschnittsmaterien des besonderen Verwaltungsrechts dar. Der Umgang mit sensiblen Gesundheitsdaten berührt in hohem Maße das allgemeine Persönlichkeitsrecht von Patienten und Versicherten. Gleichzeitig ist der Umgang mit Gesundheitsdaten von zunehmender Bedeutung für eine adäquate und qualitätsgesicherte Gesundheitsversorgung, die ihrerseits zunehmend sektorenübergreifend und arbeitsteilig von einer Vielzahl an datenverarbeitenden Stellen sichergestellt wird. Das Werk arbeitet die relevanten Strukturen des Rechtsgebiets anhand des Europa- und Verfassungsrechts, des einfachen Rechts (u.a. des Strafrechts) sowie untergesetzlicher Normen heraus. Unter Beachtung aktueller Rechtsprechung wird eine Vielzahl an Einzelfallkonstellationen sowie die künftige Rechtslage nach dem Entwurf der Datenschutzgrundverordnung der EU kritisch untersucht

We develop and analyze a labor market model in which heterogeneous firms operate under decreasing returns and compete for labor by posting long-term contracts. Firms achieve faster growth by offering higher lifetime wages, which allows them to fill vacancies with higher probability, consistent with recent empirical findings. The model also captures several other regularities about firm size, job flows, and pay, and generates sluggish aggregate dynamics of labor market variables. In contrast to existing bargaining models with large firms, efficiency obtains and the model allows a tractable characterization over the business cycle. (JEL E24, J64, L11)