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India Eyes African Investments
With China keen to expand its trade ties with Africa—and maintaining a controversial energy relationship with Sudan (BBC)—discussion of Asian-African relations typically zeroes in on Beijing. Less commonly questioned are India’s substantial and increasing investments in Africa. India’s net investments on the African continent remain small relative to China’s (World Bank), but experts say a burgeoning Indian-African relationship nevertheless holds the potential to redraw economic lines of power in several African countries.
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By CFR, USA.
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International trade Policy Resource.
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Growing Wage Inequality in Germany
In Germany, wage inequality has been rising since the late 1970s. Throughout the 1980s, all workers experienced a real wage growth, but wages grew substantially faster for workers at the top of the wage distribution. In contrast, in the 1990s and early 2000s, i.e. after reunification, real wages continued to rise at the top, but started to decline for low income groups. These are the findings of a recent study conducted by IZA Research Fellows Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg in cooperation with Johannes Ludsteck from the IAB, funded by the Anglo-German Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The study suggests that the rise in inequality among high wage earners is primarily due to technological change, whereas the real wage losses of low wage earners are partly due to a decline in union coverage. These findings are relevant in the light of the current debate on the minimum wage.
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By AGF,UK and Germany.
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Employment Policy Resource.
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Time use and work–life balance in Germany and the UK
Work–life balance has become one of the most pressing issues facing industrial societies such as Germany and the UK. As the proportion of dual-working households grows with women’s increased participation in the labour market, time pressures increase as families seek to co-ordinate and control their working lives. At the same time, pressures from employers can pull in the opposite direction as organisations try to organise time in order to be more responsive, meet consumer demands, and compete both domestically and internationally. This report analyses the time use patterns in working households and demonstrates how there are both considerable similarities and differences in the allocation of time across households and countries. Frank Bauer, Hermann Groß, Gwen Oliver, Georg Sieglen and Mark Smith
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By AGF,UK and Germany.
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Employment Resource.
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