The Horn of Africa and the Sahel are among the most fragile regions in the world: poor, lacking basic infrastructure and state presence across much of their respective territories, and both form hotbeds of conflict and political instability compounded by climate change. This DIIS Working Paper...

Climate change has a severe impact on the livelihoods and economies of developing countries and will constrain achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals on virtually all fronts. While efforts to reduce emissions are obviously vital, it is equally critical that societies adapt to the...

This study investigates an under-researched complex communicative act called “cancellation of an obligation”, produced by Chinese, Danish and British business professionals in both L1 and ELF contexts. It is embedded in an implicitly meta-interactional context consisting of a speaker’s...

The global language of scholarly research is English and so the obstacle of getting noticed is montainous when the article is not written in the English language. Indeed, despite rapid advances in technology, the "tyranny of language" creates a segmentation inhibiting scholarly research and...

De transnationale uddannelsespolitiske samarbejder påvirker den danske skole- og uddannelsespolitik og trækker den i en angloamerikansk og europæisk retning. Bogen sætter denne udvikling, og den modstand dette genererer, ind i en større sammenhæng

This book critically analyses the publicity of the Greek debt crisis, by studying Greek, Danish and German mainstream media during the crisis? early years (2009-2015). Mass media everywhere reproduced a sensualistic ?Greek crisis? spectacle, while iterating neoliberal and occidentalist...

Danmarks Nationalbank oversees systemically important payment and settlement systems to ensure the safety and efficiency of these systems. The oversight function involves assessing the systems' observance of international standards and recommendations. Kronos is Danmarks Nationalbank's real-time...

We estimate the correlation between firm prices and sales within a CN8 product-country-year market. We do this for every market to which at least 16 different Danish firms exported between 1999 and 2006. Approximately 60% of Danish exports are to markets in which the price is negatively...

In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany with its typical Conservative welfare state regime. For our analysis, we rely on the European static...

The paper addresses the question of which implications MNC strategies have to FDI linkage effects in developing countries. Two contrasting MNC strategies reflecting an integration-responsiveness dichotomy are scrutinized as to their job effects on local linkage partners in developing countries....