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Der Beitrag beschreibt die entwicklungspolitische und entwicklungspädagogische Arbeit des EG-Jugendforums ("Youth-Forum"), eine Vertretung von Jugendverbänden gegenüber der EG (Europäische Gemeinschaft). (DIPF/Orig.)

The digital pdf version of Chapter 12 is available Open Access under CC-BY licence. This transdisciplinary collection engages with key issues of social exclusion, inequality, power and knowledge in the context of COVID-19. Putting the spotlight on the lived experiences of marginalised groups from around the world, the authors reframe ongoing debates around the pandemic and highlight how they might lead to new ways of thinking and acting in relation to public policy, culture and the economy.

Development Macroeconomics in Latin America and Mexico brings the attention of academics, practitioners, and policy makers to the neglected macroeconomic factors that can account for both the unsatisfactory average growth performance of Latin American and the diversity around this average.

What explains that the Latin American subcontinent, which has gone further than other developing regions in the process of economic liberalization, has had such disappointing growth performance over the past 30 years? Why do certain countries in Latin America such as Dominican Republic, Chile, and Peru demonstrate respectable growth, while Mexico and Brazil continue to struggle? In other words, why do some economies grow faster than others? Conventional explanations emphasize the role of institutional factors, human capital, or microeconomic factors, but these explanations do not address the Latin American paradox. In terms of institutions, human capital endowment, and economic liberalization, Latin American countries have been converging rapidly over the past thirty years. At the same time, growth rates after the lost decade of the 1980s have been diverging. Development Macroeconomics in Latin America and Mexico brings the attention of academics, practitioners, and policy makers to the neglected macroeconomic factors that can account for both the unsatisfactory average growth performance of Latin American and the diversity around this average. This exciting new volume enriches the debate on the macroeconomic reform agenda that could revive the high growth rates that the region achieved between the post war period and the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s.

Ros Thomas is a familiar face in Australia, having worked as a journalist for 25 years, 17 of them in television. Ros writes a weekly op-ed column in West Weekend magazine, with a readership of 850,000. Her column is about accessible everyday topics of memory, family, working mums, nostalgia, and humor. Whether writing about her foiled attempt to seduce her husband, her encounter with the homesick Irishman she found on the beach, or why dog-people and cat-people can never be friends, Ros does so with the kind of humor and clarity that keeps her readers coming back week after week. Was It Somet

"Southern Cone post-dictatorship generations reshape the collective memory of the dictatorial past through political activism and forms of artistic expression (cinema, literature, comics and photography). The author situates their work at the intersection of the individual and the collective: it is enabled by changes in the political context and can have a profound impact on the collective level. At the same time, these projects help artists and activists work through traumatic events individually. The first part of the book focuses on Argentina, where this generation's public interventions have broadened social involvement in remembering the past and encouraged learning from it for the sake of the present. In the second part, the author compares the exemplary achievements in Argentina with Chile and Uruguay, where political conditions are less conducive to genuine debate. "--

Autonomy and Identity are key concepts in both political and feminist thought and have played central roles in both fields. Although there has been much academic work on both concepts there has arguably been little that has addressed the connections between autonomy and identity. Autonomy and Identity seeks to draw innovative links between these concepts in order to develop a new understanding which sees autonomy as a process by which we change and develop our identity. It draws on thinkers from the canon of political thought such as G.W.F. Hegel, Mary Wollstonecraft, J.S. Mill and Simone de B