Special Issue Femme Globale (I): Gender Perspectives in the 21st Century (Barbara Unmüßig) +++ No Strong UN without Stronger Inclusion of Women (Charlotte Bunch) +++ The Impact of Neo-liberal Globalisation on Gender Equality and Social Justice (Christa Wichterich) +++ Peace and Security Need a Gender Perpective (Gitti Hentschel)
Special Issue Femme Globale (II): The Case for a New Feminist Social Critique (Ewa Charkiewicz) +++ Gender and Poverty Eradication (Mirjam van Reisen/Maxi Ussar) +++ Women and the Politics of the Religious Right (Marion R. Mueller) +++ Privatisation on the Back of Women (Ingrid Spiller) +++ Biopolitics and New Reproduction Technologies (Andreas Poltermann) +++ From Beijing to Tunis and Beyond: Towards the Information Society (Heike Jensen)
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After decades of isolation - imposed by major OECD countries out of concern for the country's human rights violations - Myanmar is emerging as a new darling of the "West" - judging by the accelerating succession of visits by senior officials and gurus. New groups of investors are waiting to enter the country as soon as possible.
Persistent high unemployment, the euro area debt crisis and premature fiscal austerity have already slowed global growth and factor into the possibility of a new recession. Now the United Nations have downgraded significantly its forecasts for the world economy in the next year.
Eastern European states are in for a new round of the crisis. The external control of the banking sector and high reliance on external credit has landed the countries of Eastern Europe in a vulnerable position. Now, credit flows from Western banks are drying up again. Hungary has been the first country in the region to ask for IMF support again.
While the G20 efforts to manage global aggregate demand, exchange rate management and stronger regulation of the international financial sector have not worked out quite as planned, in Cannes the Group was further solidifying its role in directing the system of multilateral institutions.
In November 2011, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is celebrating its 50th anniversary.The new Minister, Dirk Niebel of the (neo)-liberal FDP has launched a 'radical change of course'. In the recent edition of the Reality of Aid shadow report the change is analyzed.