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Our figure of the month 11/2018: Export volume to Africa – China's dominance

In August of this year, Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Senegal, Ghana and Nigeria along with a business delegation with the aim of developing partnerships with West Africa. Almost at the same time, British Prime Minister Theresa May…

Call for Papers for the eleventh I-O-Workshop

In cooperation with the University of Bremen and the GWS, the Bochum University of Applied Sciences invites you to a special edition of the Input-Output-Workshop in Bochum from 14 to 15 March 2019. The workshop is dedicated to the topic…

Measuring Green Jobs – Presentation for UNFCCC

Ulrike Lehr presentetd an example of the methodology for the measurement of Green Jobs on the African region awareness creation workshop to maximize the positive and minimize the negative impacts of implementation of Climate Change…

Our figure of the month 10/2018: German-African export relation

In August of this year, Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Senegal, Ghana and Nigeria along with an economic delegation with the aim of developing partnerships with West Africa. In addition to combating the causes of flight, it was also…

Our figure of the month 09/2018: Temporary employment – a phenomenon only at universities? Structural evaluation of figures from the current Mikrozensus

The number of fixed-term employment contracts has increased in recent years despite the good labour market situation (Hohendanner 2018) and has thus moved into the political focus: According to the decisions of the ruling coalition,…

Our figure of the month 08/2018: Change in the labour force by district type and gender

Labour shortages are already restricting economic development in parts of the economy. With regard to current demographic developments and the imminent withdrawal of the "baby boomers" from the labour market the issue of limited labour…

Development Planning Training Course (June 3rd to 22nd 2018, Ulaanbaatar (Mongolei((

In course of the Economic Governance for Equitable Growth (EG4EG)-project, Anett Großmann and Frank Hohmann assisted the Ministry of Finance (MoF) in Mongolia. During a 3-weeks training in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), a model building plan for…

Our figure of the month 07/2018: Housing situation of tenants and owners by household size

The coalition agreement of the current federal government provides for support for families in the acquisition of residential property in the form of so-called "building child benefit". Various criteria were discussed for the allocation…

Green Jobs in Tunisia – ILO study published

The transition to the green economy is associated with a variety of new job opportunities. The GWS estimates these so-called green jobs for Tunisia, together with the Tunisian consultants ALCOR and the consultant Andreas Bockermann,…

Transforming energy markets – GWS at IAEE 2018

This year, the international IAEE conference took place for the 41st time from 11th to 13th June, 2018, in which GWS participated with two contributions. The Dutch university city Groningen was hosting the event. Christian Lutz presented…

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