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The Ripple Effect
In The Ripple Effect, Enze Han argues that a focus on the Chinese state alone is not sufficient for a comprehensive understanding of China's influence in Southeast Asia. Instead, we must look beyond the Chinese state, to non-state actors from China, such as private businesses and Chinese migrants. These actors affect people's perception of China in a variety of ways, and they often have wide-ranging as well as long-lasting effects on bilateral relations. Han proposes that to understand this increasingly globalized China, we need more conceptual flexibility regarding which Chinese actors are important to China's relations, and how they wield this influence, whether intentional or not.
Fragen unserer Zeit
Ungeachtet der zweifelsohne brillanten Leistungen vieler Ökonom:innen und der zum Teil bahnbrechenden Erkenntnisse der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschung der vergangenen Jahrhunderte hat sich an den großen (sozio-)ökonomischen Fragen seit dem Beginn der modernen Wissenschaften nicht viel verändert. Generationen von Wissenschaftler:innen haben sich auf die mitunter frustrierende, jedoch stets spannende Reise gemacht, die "richtigen" Antworten auf die Fragen ihrer Zeit zu finden. Entsprechend mannigfaltig, heterogen und bisweilen konträr sind die Lösungsvorschläge, verändern sich im Zeitverlauf und folgen manchmal schlicht dem Zeitgeist. Von einer abschließenden Klärung der groÃ...
World Economic Outlook, October 2023
The latest World Economic Outlook reports signs that policy tightening is starting to cool activity despite core inflation proving persistent. Risks are more balanced as banking sector stress has receded, but they remain tilted to the downside. Monetary policy should stay the course to bring inflation to target, while fiscal consolidation is needed to tackle soaring debts. Structural reforms are crucial to revive medium-term growth prospects amid constrained policy space.
A expansão econômica e geopolÃtica da China no século XXI:
"Nessa nova edição, ampliada e atualizada, do livro: A expansão econômica e geopolÃtica da China no século XXI: diferentes dimensões de um mesmo processo é mais oportuna do que nunca. A primeira edição da obra, publicada em 2018, foi produto de um grande Seminário realizado na PUC Minas em 2016. A segunda edição, não obstante, é produto de anos de estudo da nossa rede de pesquisa internacional sobre esse fenômeno social da emergência ou re-emergência da China, assim como os seus desdobramentos que poderÃamos destacar em: a) desafios interpretativos da teoria de relações internacionais para compreender o fenômeno da China contemporânea; b) os impactos econômicos e geopolÃticos da ascensão da RPC; c) o surgimento (ou não) de um novo tipo de globalização; d) os complexos relacionamentos da RPC com as grandes potências e com os grandes blocos econômicos regionais; e) a relação da China com o Sul Global e os dilemas da cooperação e o desenvolvimento; f) os aspectos que se relacionam à segurança internacional num perÃodo de mudança estrutural e surgimento de novos conflitos, sejam de caráter tradicional ou hÃbridos."
The Carbon Footprint of Global Trade Imbalances
International trade is highly imbalanced both in terms of values and in terms of embodied carbon emissions. We show that the persistent current value trade imbalance patterns contribute to a higher level of global emissions compared to a world of balanced international trade. Specifically, we build a Ricardian quantitative trade model including sectoral input-output linkages, trade imbalances, fossil fuel extraction, and carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion and use this framework to simulate counterfactual changes to countries' trade balances. For individual countries, the emission effects of removing their trade imbalances depend on the carbon intensities of their production and consumption patterns, as well as on their fossil resource abundance. Eliminating the Russian trade surplus and the US trade deficit would lead to the largest environmental benefits in terms of lower global emissions. Globally, the simultaneous removal of all trade imbalances would lower world carbon emissions by 0.9 percent or 295 million tons of carbon dioxide.
Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage
This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively shaped the course, form and function of water for human settlement and the development of civilizations, establishing socio-economic structures, policies and cultures; a rich world of narratives, laws and practices; and an extensive network of infrastructure, buildings and urban form. The book is organ...
Klimakulturen und Raum
Thorsten Heimann geht der Frage nach, wie sich kulturelle Unterschiede im Umgang mit Klimawandel an europäischen Küsten beschreiben und erklären lassen. Dazu entwickelt er das Konzept des relationalen Kulturraums, erarbeitet umweltsoziologische Erklärungsansätze und prüft diese anhand einer Befragung von 830 Akteuren der Raumentwicklung europäischer Küstenstaaten. Er antwortet damit auf raumtheoretische Debatten zur kulturellen Globalisierung, in denen die Gebundenheit von Kulturen an Orte zunehmend in Frage gestellt wird. Mit dem relationalen Kulturraumansatz können kulturelle Formationen zukünftig in vielfältigen sozialwissenschaftlichen Anwendungsfeldern untersucht werden.
The Unequal Benefits of Fuel Subsidies
This paper reviews evidence on the impact of fuel subsidy reform on household welfare in developing countries. On average, the burden of subsidy reform is neutrally distributed across income groups; a $0.25 decrease in the per liter subsidy results in a 6 percent decrease in income for all groups. More than half of this impact arises from the indirect impact on prices of other goods and services consumed by households. Fuel subsidies are a costly approach to protecting the poor due to substantial benefit leakage to higher income groups. In absolute terms, the top income quintile captures six times more in subsidies than the bottom. Issues that need to be addressed when undertaking subsidy reform are also discussed, including the need for a new approach to fuel pricing in many countries.
