Austrian development policy - from global to neighbourhood policy?

From aid to global development policy

The international community has advanced in reforming the international aid system. Such reform comes at a time when there is a renewed skepticism about aid effectiveness and when the crisis sheds new doubts about the sustainability of donors ́ commitments. At the same time, the international reality has changed as a consequence of the growing heterogeneity of the developing world, the new geogr...

Development Knowledge and the Global Policy

Austrian Monetary Policy Views: a Short Critique

Austrian business cycle theory is enjoying a comeback because explanations of the recent recession in the U.S. and the current sluggish recovery often have an Austrian flavor (e.g., Laidler 2003; Eichengreen and Mitchener 2003; Economist 2002; Oppers 2002). In a nutshell, Austrian business cycle theory postulates that “too low” interest rates induced by monetary policy trigger a credit-financed...

Tobacco control, global health policy and development: towards policy coherence in global governance.

The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) demonstrates the international political will invested in combating the tobacco pandemic and a newfound prominence for tobacco control within the global health agenda. However, major difficulties exist in managing conflicts with foreign and trade policy priorities, and significant obstacles confront efforts to create synergies with developm...

From Evidence - Based Policy - Making to Policy

The paper aims at addressing the problem of what makes specific aiding to decide within public policy making problem situations. Under such a perspective it analyses some basic concepts such as “public policy”, “deliberation”, “legitimation”, “accountability” and shows the necessity to expand the concept of rationality which is expected to be behind the acceptability of a public policy. We then...