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    <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 20:10:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The effects of digitalization on gender equaliy in the G20 economies: Women20 study</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/170571</link>
      <description>Title: The effects of digitalization on gender equaliy in the G20 economies: Women20 study
Authors: Sorgner, Alina; Bode, Eckhardt; Krieger-Boden, Christiane; Aneja, Urvashi; Coleman, Susan; Mishra, Vidisha; Robb, Alicia M.
Abstract: This study investigates how the digital revolution, which is characterized by artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and mobile robotics, will affect gender equality in G20 countries, and how governments and non-governmental initiatives may exploit the new digital technologies to narrow these gender gaps in the future. The study focuses on four areas to derive its policy recommendations. First, it assesses if digital technologies will affect gender equality in the foreseeable future by replacing women’s jobs to a different extent than men’s jobs. Second, it determines the state of the art in gender equality and gender-oriented policies in labor markets, financial inclusion and entrepreneurship in the G20 countries. Third, it identifies deficits in women’s digital inclusion that may impair the effectiveness of digitally empowered gender policies. It also shows how digital technologies may empower women. And fourth, it provides three detailed case studies. Two case studies, coauthored by Urvashi Aneja and Vidisha Mishra, zoom deeper into the options for digitally empowered gender policies in two selected countries, India and South Africa, while the third, coauthored by Susan Coleman and Alicia Robb, highlights digitally empowered strategies for reducing the gender gap in angel investment, a promising tool for fostering female entrepreneurship...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cluster development programs in Ethiopia: Evidence and policy implications</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/141418</link>
      <description>Title: Cluster development programs in Ethiopia: Evidence and policy implications
Authors: Ali, Merima; Godart, Olivier; Görg, Holger; Seric, Adnan
Abstract: [Introduction] Cluster development programs have become increasingly widespread tools in fostering innovation and growth of a competitive private sector in developing countries, including Ethiopia. Naturally emerged clusters of micro- and small-scale enterprises (MSEs) are predominantly common in Ethiopia in traditional and labor intensive sectors in rural and poor urban areas. This has attracted the interest of policy-makers and various development organizations such as UNIDO to promote such clusters because of the direct impact they have on poverty. A cluster based development has also been given a top priority in the country’s current five years Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP) as the main tool for spurring income and employment growth among MSEs. Owing to the existing policy enthusiasm to promote clusters, this report will pro-vide additional background information to assist the ongoing efforts by the government and UNIDO and highlight possible potential avenues for intervention and investment targeting. The report reviews the relevant literature on cluster development, discusses specific case study evidence for Ethiopia, and provides explorative evidence from more aggregate data on overall colocalization of enterprises in Ethiopia. More specifically, the report provides a general background on cluster development concept, the advantages of industrial clusters and the rationale for cluster development interventions in Section 2 and 3. A brief discussion of the MSE sector and clusters in Ethiopia is provided in Section 4. In Section 5, different past and ongoing cluster development programs in Ethiopia that are implemented both by UNIDO and the government are discussed. These programs will be presented in detail and lessons learnt will be drawn. In Section 6, we use more aggregate data to chart the localization of firms across different regions in Ethiopia to provide an overall picture of colocalization of firms across the country. We also present some evidence on characteristics of such locations, in terms of overall firm size, productivity, and linkages with the local economy. Section 7 summarizes the main findings of the report and provides some conclusions and policy recommendations for further integration of the cluster development methodology in to the national development processes.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2016-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Climate Change: Current Issues</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/60980</link>
      <description>Title: Climate Change: Current Issues
Editors: Trofimenko, Natalia</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2011-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Crisis and Beyond</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/60981</link>
      <description>Title: The Crisis and Beyond
Editors: Klodt, Henning; Lehment, Harmen
Abstract: We are looking back to one of the most severe financial crises ever. The subprime crisis, as future generations may call it, was not just a crisis among others, but had a truly global dimension. There are still doubts whether the flames are really out, but in any case the recent crisis has far-reaching implications for all areas of Weltwirtschaft, including monetary and fiscal policy, the nature of global trade and capital flows, environmental policy, competition for natural resources, economic development, the welfare state, and much more. Many dangers loom, from new forms of protectionism, to threats to the environment and development aid, to new social divides. Even after the crisis, it is very unlikely that we will return to business as usual; the world will presumably move to a new financial architecture, new political and trade relations, new forms of global interconnectedness. The crisis has been recognized as a major challenge not only for the world economy, but also for economic research and economic policy advice. Over the past months, economists working at or visiting the Kiel Institute have prepared a number of essays on several aspects of the crisis and on its potential long-term consequences. These essays are now collected in this e-book in a condensed and easily accessible manner. The editors and authors hope that the book will initiate a lively debate among researchers and policy makers who share a common interest in preventing another such crisis to occur in the future.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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