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Evidence suggests that productivity would be much higher and unemployment much lower if the supply of and demand for skills were better matched. As a result, skills mismatch between workers (supply) and jobs (demand) commands the ongoing attention of policymakers in many countries. Policies intended to address the persistence of skills mismatch focus on the supply side of the issue by emphasizing worker education and training. However, the role of the demand side, that is, employers' rigid skill requirements, garners comparatively little policy attention.

Ever since my first book, Social Epistemology, I have argued that Thomas Kuhn's philosophy of science presupposes a version of 'many worlds realism'. This paper continues that line of argument by situating Kuhn's thinking about language and science in the context of shifting philosophical developments in the 1950s-1970s. Kuhn's view is related to others exposed to the same developments, especially Willard Quine, Donald Davidson, Wolfgang Stegmüller and Karl Popper. Notably, Quine and Davidson were not tempted to go down the 'many worlds' route, largely due to a background commitment to a behaviorist understanding of language that precluded any role for 'world-making'. However, Alfred Tarski's 'semantic' theory of truth made a notable impression on the logical positivists and Popper, inclining the latter towards his own version of many worlds realism. As Kuhn astutely observed in his later writings, whether one adopted a monist or pluralist approach to the world depended on whether translation or meaning was the key to making sense of language. The paper ends by suggesting that the German historiographical concept of Sonderweg ('special way') might provide an interesting, more normatively charged understanding of the sort of many worlds realism promoted by Kuhn.

The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is world's largest civil society movement fighting against poverty and inequality, incorporating over 100 affiliated country-level coalitions. It has become a significant global actor and its annual days of mobilisation now attract over 175 million people around the world. This book seeks to explore GCAP's power and its embodiment of emancipatory change. It develops a framework that assesses its external power as an actor by exploring how power works in it, and the relationship between the two. Gabay demonstrates that GCAP, and.

The article considers the German-language writings of the ethnic German Kazakh writer, Herold Belger, and explores whether his literary output can be understood as a model for moving beyond the postcolonial struggle for ethnic, cultural, and political autonomy in favor of intercultural encounters. Belger's enunciation of cultural diversity and differences at the margins of Soviet cultural life gestures towards a relational and fluid conception of identity, one that eschews dogmatic nationalism. Various theoretical perspectives, such as Bhabha's third space theory, Rothberg's multidirectional memory, and Boym's notions of nostalgia, shed light on Belger's essay "Aul" and novel Das Haus des Heimatlosen.