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Demography
As the population ages, there are fewer and fewer young people to finance pensions. A declining number of working-age people are generating the revenue that the welfare state uses to provide benefits. Companies must align their human resources policies with demographic change. In the long term, municipalities will also be forced to realign their services: if the population grows, they will have to build day-care centers and schools; if the population shrinks, they will have to make downward adjustments to public administration and infrastructure. It is precisely because demographic processes proceed so slowly that the socio-political challenges they bring tend to fade into the background. However, the earlier the facts and available options are brought to the table, the sooner such diverse change can be managed.
Microfinance loan officers before and during Covid-19: Evidence from India
https://doi.org/10.7805/Microfinance-India-2022
Municipal Politics
Municipal politics has a direct influence on the economic and social life of local citizens. Cities, municipalities, and districts are therefore of central importance when it comes to structural change, demographic development, and competition between locations. At the same time, municipalities in Germany are facing major challenges: scarce public funds, the modernization and digitalization of local government, persistent structural weakness, and a growing gap in demographic development between urban and rural areas.
ifo GAME – the Geological and Meteorological Events Database
Development in Income Inequality
ifo World Economic Survey (2019q3)
10.7805/ebdc-wes-2019q3
ifo Business Survey Service (2019a)
10.7805/ebdc-ibs-serv-2019a
ifo Business Survey Industry (2019a)
10.7805/ebdc-ibs-ind-2019a
ifo Business Survey Construction (2019a)
10.7805/ebdc-ibs-con-2019a
ifo Business Survey Trade (2019a)
10.7805/ebdc-ibs-tra-2019a
Free Trade
Free trade leads to all countries producing exactly those goods for which they have comparative advantages; i.e., producing them with less resource input than other goods. It thus increases people’s consumption options compared to a situation without trade (autarky). In the longer term, specialization through trade also allows for stronger productivity growth.
Labor Market
Germany’s labor market has seen positive development in recent years. Other European countries are struggling with youth unemployment and the emigration of young people. In Germany, comprehensive reforms made it possible to greatly reduce the mass unemployment of the 1990s and to integrate immigrants into the labor market.
Climate Policy
With the European Green Deal, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has defined a new growth and climate strategy. The aim of this strategy is to cut greenhouse gas emissions while also creating jobs, but there are still many questions regarding the form it should take and how to implement it. While the EU plans to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, the targets set in Germany are somewhat less ambitious: by 2050, the German government aims to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions down to 80 to 95 percent of their 1990 levels.
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Meta Survey for the ifo Business Survey in Trade (2009)
10.7805/ebdc-ms-ibs-tra-2009
Meta Survey for ifo World Economic Survey (2014)
10.7805/ebdc-ms-WES-2014
Personnel Manager Survey (2015)
10.7805/ebdc-ipms-2015
Personnel Manager Survey (2016)
10.7805/ebdc-ipms-2016
Personnel Manager Survey (2017)
10.7805/ebdc-ipms-2017
EBDC Business Expectations Panel (2014-15)
10.7805/ebdc-bep-2014-15
