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This collection of short articles examines the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis, with a focus on labour. The articles suggest ways to strengthen labour's capacity to influence policy debate, offering inspiration to those who feel that national and international policies must change and who are convinced that the labour movement has much to contribute after years of declining influence.

Financial crises. --- Economics. --- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

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Un mensaje clave de la edición 2011 de la publicación Global Labour Column es que necesitamos de un pensamiento plural para poder desarrollar y, en última instancia, escoger entre las distintas políticas. Este volumen será de gran interés para los estudiosos, así como para los activistas sindicales y los formuladores de políticas.

Economic conditions. --- Economic policy. --- Social conditions.

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La Global Labour Column se ha convertido en una valiosa fuente de análisis de las tendencias económicas actuales que afectan a los trabajadores de todo el mundo. La presente antología recoge artículos esenciales sobre muchas cuestiones (estrategias fiscales, políticas financieras, protección social, estrategias de creación de empleo, entre muchas otras), abarcando distintas regiones y desde ópticas diversas.' -Jayati Ghosh, Profesor de Economía, Universidad de Jawaharlal Nehru, Nueva Delhi

Economic development. --- Community development. --- Social planning.

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Land dynamics are context specific and rapidly changing, and conflicts related to them do not systematically escalate into violence. One way of framing the discussion is to consider change in the structures of power governing the management of resources in rural areas as necessary to achieve greater efficiency and equity. Since such change will be opposed by beneficiaries of the system in place, the transformation of agriculture is bound to be marred by conflicts of various intensity levels. At the heart of these conflicts lies land because of its very high material and symbolic values. Evidence shows that (a) whether they result from pre-existing agrarian tensions or not, conflict situations in rural societies deeply affect the politics of land, and (b) whether it is at the heart of a conflict or gets dragged into it, land requires a careful approach by policy makers because it is a central element in the evolution of societies. As a result, policies pertaining to land can ...

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Monitoring changes in public awareness and attitudes in rich countries towards aid and other international development policy issues is extremely difficult: due to lack of systematic polling or monitoring, there is no reliable, comparable data across DAC member countries. This paper suggests a way to address this problem: a common questionnaire for all DAC countries to use in their national surveys, centred on the Millennium Development Goals. It sums up the process that led to the setting up of this questionnaire, provides a short analysis of the main methodological issues and brings together three versions, respectively for face-to-face, phone or mail processing. These should allow information and communication professionals, as well as policy makers, to improve the comparability of public opinion surveys in OECD DAC member countries on development and the MDGs, especially if — as proposed by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Development — parts of the ...

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