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Keywords: Romani; education; budget; government; shools; GDP; EUMAP; politicians; Romani children; vulnerable; teachers; pensioners; kindergarten; Education Minister Ecaterina Andronescu;
Romania’s rural schools are suffering from underfunding, neglect, and the government’s budget priorities.
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Keywords: Georgia; South Caucasus; ethnic Azeris and Armenians; Nagorno-Karabakh; propaganda; stereotypes; opposition; Twitter; phone video; conflict
In Georgia, ethnic Azeris and Armenians belie the propaganda and live together in peace. A TOL multimedia presentation. This is the first in a series of multimedia reports on villages and urban districts in Georgia where Azeris and Armenians co-exist. Click here to see an audio slide show on life in these communities. You can learn more about this project and see more photos and video at TOL's Steady State blog.
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Keywords: Conflict; diplomac; Turkmenistan; Central Asia; Uzbekistan; Kazakhstan; Trans-Asian Gas Pipeline; natural gas; Chinese expansion; former Soviet states; Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov; foreign relations; Commonwealth of Independent States; Azerbaijan;
With energy revenues at stake, once-isolated Turkmenistan opens up to an old foe across the border
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Keywords: Ukraine; Viktor Yushchenko; Viktor Yanukovych; election; the Orange Revolution; European Council on Foreign Relations; Andrew Wilson; interview;
A Ukraine expert says the next president must act fast to right the listing ship of state. A TOL podcast.
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Keywords: Ukraine; Viktor Yanukovych; Yushchenko; democracy; presidential election; Orange Revolution; ballot; Tymoshenko; Kuchma; law; dictatorship; corruption; Constitutional Court; Central Electoral Commission
As the Yushchenko era draws to a close, even Viktor Yanukovych has earned the right to lecture his old Orange opponent on the meaning of democracy. TOL's coverage of the Ukraine election continues tomorrow with a podcast interview with Andrew Wilson, a Ukraine specialist at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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Keywords: Ukraine; Kyiev; elections; Pew Global Attitudes Project; Orange Revolution; post-communist; survey; democracy; market economy;
Kyiv’s five-year political train wreck has Ukrainians approaching these elections in a state of disenchantment and nostalgia.
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Keywords: social economy; social eco-entrepreneurship; sustainable development; social iclusion
Two complementary concepts of sustainable development and social economy are almost always discussed separately in the Polish scientific literature. However, projects conducted by the initiatives of social economy, including social enterprises, contribute directly to the objectives of sustainable development in the field of achieving both social and environmental objectives. Aims and tasks included in these two concepts seem to be inseparable. These initiatives are characterised by high innovation in mobilising resources (work, materials) and in identifying development opportunities in the least expected fields. The aim of the article is to relate the literature discussions on the relationship of social economy initiatives with sustainable development objectives (especially in the range of environment resources saving) to Polish conditions. The author shows the specificity of initiatives undertaken in Poland, resulting from both legal and social factors in our country.
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Keywords: outsourcing processes; tool; efficient use of resources
Outsourcing is one of the fastest growing management concepts. The nature of its course and the objectives that are set for it let us conclude that it enables the introduction of resource-efficiency idea to the organization. This idea may not only refer to the structure of outsourcing, but also to the key areas for economic development.
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Keywords: resource efficient economy; sustainable development; sustainable consumption
The subject of the article is the relationship between the purpose of the implementation of the idea of resource efficient economy and potential models of resource efficient consumption. The paper presents the basic challenges and decision-making of the household on the plane of resource efficient household, and then describes four realistically effective models of resource efficient consumption indicating which results from them for the aim described in the article. The author pays attention to the fact that resource efficient management policy is based on the “narrow” philosophy of sustainable development, abstracting from social issues, which can be the source of some problems in the implementation of this project. This applies in particular to the risk of further pauperization of the poorest consumers.
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Keywords: sustainable transport; individual motorisation; consumer behaviour; Europe 2020 strategy
In this paper, some selected problems related to individual transport behaviour are discussed in the context of activities aimed at sustainable development of transport presented in the EU strategy Europe 2020 and related documents. First, the main causes leading to the need of change in transport behaviour and the related reduction of individual motorisation are discussed. Then, the determinants of behaviour of transport users are analysed. In the last part of the paper, the main directions of EU actions included in the latest EU documents are presented. An attempt is made to briefly asses the expected effectiveness of the initiatives in terms of creating sustainable transport behaviour of individuals.
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Keywords: ecoinnovations; sustainable development; municipalities
The article presents an issue of ecoinnovations in municipal economy. Ecological innovations are anlysed in the context of sustainable development. The subject is presented under conditions of Polish municipalities. The article analysis experience and practices undertaken in the capital of the Silesia Beskid Mountains. Bielsko-Biała has had a great success record in terms of ecoinnovations in municipal economy and generally in local sustainable development. It is one of the leaders of changes in this field among other Polish municipalities. The currently undertaken works are mostly directed towards energy efficiency. Nevertheless local policy shows the understanding for the need of integration of economic, social and environmental conditions. It also includes a crucial role of local community. Local development in Bielsko-Biała deserves dissemination and promotion of good practices.
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