infonet-economy

Almost 15 years after Unification in 1990, Germany is still struggling with the economic consequences of this event. Although the East German economy has made considerable progress since its near-collapse after the German monetary, economic and social union in July 1990, the East German labour market has not yet recovered. Western Germany, which had to bear a substantial part of the…

In this chapter, I will provide a brief overview of the "gender and diversity landscape" at Swiss universities. I will begin by presenting some information about the higher education system in Switzerland and looking at the relevance of gender and diversity management. I will then discuss in greater detail the situation of equal opportunity initiatives at Swiss universities…

This text inquires in a poetic way the possibility of theatrical space by exploring the question "what space makes theatre possible?". The central argument is that threatre creates an intensive yet fragile space of possibility and the possible through creating affects. The text, written in between a prelude and an epilogue, approaches this space of desire and intensity…

Any assessment of the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference depends critically on the benchmark employed. Surely, compared to its predecessor, the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference was a success. Having said that, no major participant in that meeting and no commentator afterwards has suggested that enough progress was made that the end of the Doha Round is in sight. Although World Trade…

Although WTO agreements contain a variety of provisions to encourage compliance by signatories, little attention is given to the incentives created by the mechanisms other than dispute settlement. The WTO's Agreement on Government procurement contains a
number of such mechanisms, including detailed reporting requirements. This chapter examines the performance of the…

Abstract:

On 1 January 1995, the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (DSU) entered into force. Since 1998, negotiations to review and reform the DSU have taken place ('DSU review'), without however yielding any result so far. This study proposes to analyse the DSU review negotiations and the proposals submitted so far.…

In 2004, ECR Europe was preparing to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The ECR Europe Board commissioned a study - The Case for ECR . The purpose of the study was to review ECR achievement in Europe, to report the progress which had already been made and to estimate the further benefits which could be achieved. In the report presented here you will see that:
- since 1995 3.6% of…