Archive for the 'Germany' Category

Please welcome new staff at AGEG’s Head Office

30 September 2009 in Development, Directories, Economy, European Union, Germany, News

AGEG Consultants eG has two new Managing Directors, who share general management tasks. Both are experienced Consultants and are named Harald, but are not relatives. Harald Himsel will lead the business development, while Harald Speidel looks more on the administration and financial management. Martina Jacobson joined the team as Project Manager for Training, E-Learning, and [...]

World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development

3 July 2009 in Crisis, Development, Economy, Employment, European Union, Germany, OECD, Poverty
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The United Nations Conference on the world financial crisis adopted a wide-ranging Outcome Document (http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/CONF.214/3&Lang=E). The Outcome Document recognizes that the incoherence of the global economic system needs to be urgently addressed. It stresses the importance of the United Nations’ role in international economic issues,emphasizing that its universal membership and legitimacy makes it well positioned [...]

GTZ requires Capacity WORKS certificates from Consultants

3 July 2009 in Development, Germany, Methods
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Capacity WORKS is GTZ’s new management model for sustainable development. It supports the steering of international cooperation projects and programmes. Using five success factors, the cooperating partners structure the projects, evaluate each step along the way and identify necessary interventions. This makes the measures more transparent and increases the scope for action by the partners [...]

A comprehensive plan to drive Europe’s recovery from the current economic crisis

11 December 2008 in Economy, European Union, Germany

The European Commission presented a Recovery Plan based on short-term measures to boost demand, save jobs and help restore confidence, and also on ‘’smart investment” to yield higher growth and sustainable prosperity in the longer-term. The Plan calls for a timely, targeted and temporary fiscal stimulus in 2009-2010 of EUR 200bn, or 1.5% of EU [...]

Remittances from Germany and their Routes to Migrants’ Origin Countries

11 February 2008 in Development, Germany, Migration, Remittances, Research

Germany is one of the most important countries of origin for remittances— money transfers from migrants. In 2006 they amounted to approximately ten billion euros. However, as this study shows, migrants face considerable difficulties with the transfer process. Despite its large volume, the market for money transfers is extremely intransparent. Intensive research is needed to [...]