30-mai-2016
Français
Un jour, Kalu, un jeune garçon arraché à un atelier de tissage de tapis au Bihar, a posé une question fondamentale à Bill Clinton, alors président des États-Unis. Au cours de l’entretien, Kalu s’est poliment enquis de ses plans et politiques concernant les enfants du monde et leur situation.
4-May-2016
English
A stern warning for climate change, and our health - Shipping brings us 90% of world trade and has increased in size by 400% in the last 45 years. Cargo ships, tankers and dry-bulk tankers are an essential element of a globalised world economy, but they are thirsty titans and they won’t settle for diet drinks. There are up to 100,000 working vessels on the ocean and some travel an incredible 2/3 of the distance to the moon in one year.
19-April-2016
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This year the Forum will focus on creativity, jobs and local development. We will examine how localities can support culture and creative industries as a source of knowledge and job creation and how the creative industry can act as a powerful driving force areas such as tourism, urban regeneration, and social inclusion.
18-April-2016
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18-April-2016
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13-April-2016
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29-March-2016
English
This paper examines the relationship between environmental policy and "green" innovation in shipbuilding.
22-March-2016
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2-February-2016
English
Slowing growth in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) is grabbing the headlines with some suggesting a third wave of the 2008 global financial crisis. While this topic deserves attention because of its global economic implications, there is insufficient analysis of firms in global production networks (GPNs), which were at the forefront of the economic transformation in PRC and the rest of East Asia, and lessons for latecomers to GPNs.
26-January-2016
English
The news that companies in OECD economies are increasingly bringing manufacturing activities back home has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. But considerable disagreement exists about how important this trend actually is for economies in particular the number of jobs that reshoring is supposed to bring back.