The authors highlighted a number of key themes related to the arts, humanities, system sciences and economics. Several authors suggested that they should be created through dialogic social processes ...(Reuter) as well as processes that facilitate reconstruction of societal ideas and systems (Werlen). Several of the authors discuss the need for grassroots, local and communal processes and how these facilitate the development of new values and worldviews that support societal transformation.
In The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy Yellen exposes the history, politics, and intrigue that characterized the era when Japan's "total empire" met the total war of World War II. He ...illuminates the ways in which the imperial center and its individual colonies understood the concept of the Sphere, offering two sometimes competing, sometimes complementary, and always intertwined visions-one from Japan, the other from Burma and the Philippines.
Yellen argues that, from 1940 to 1945, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere epitomized two concurrent wars for Asia's future: the first was for a new type of empire in Asia, and the second was a political war, waged by nationalist elites in the colonial capitals of Rangoon and Manila. Exploring Japanese visions for international order in the face of an ever-changing geopolitical situation, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere explores wartime Japan's desire to shape and control its imperial future while its colonies attempted to do the same. At Japan's zenith as an imperial power, the Sphere represented a plan for regional domination; by the end of the war, it had been recast as the epitome of cooperative internationalism. In the end, the Sphere could not survive wartime defeat, and Yellen's lucidly written account reveals much about the desires of Japan as an imperial and colonial power, as well as the ways in which the subdued colonies in Burma and the Philippines jockeyed for agency and a say in the future of the region.
Youth development province refers to the province development method that mutually stimulates youth innovation and creative vitality and province innovation and creative vitality, and mutually ...promotes youth high-quality development and province high-quality development. 2021 The Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Supporting the High-quality Development of Zhejiang Province to Construct a Common Wealth Demonstration Zone, which was introduced in 2021, further clarifies that the judgment indicators for the realization of the common wealth can be classified into 10 aspects, namely high-quality development, Income Distribution, Social Public Services, Resident Income, Quality of Life, Culture and Entertainment, Basic Education, Sustainable Ecology, Life Safety, Information and Transportation. Taking Zhejiang Province as an example, this paper starts from the question of whether there is a certain correlation between the building of youth development province and the realization of common prosperity, and analyzes the correlation between the index of youth development province and the index of common prosperity in Zhejiang Province, and discusses and expounds the construction direction of the goal of “common prosperity” in Zhejiang Province.
The economic situation in contemporary Ghana makes everyone yearn for economic progress. In Ghana, like many other parts of Africa, religion is responsible for providing the economic, spiritual, and ...health needs of its adherents. The predominantly Christian population in Ghana makes many people look up to Christianity to provide the road map to the country’s success. In this regard, the prosperity theology/gospel is the most dominant approach to seeking health and wealth among Ghanaian Christians. Though very persuasive, prosperity theology prompts so much debate about its influence on the religious and socio-economic life of Christians and the society at large. On the one hand, it is considered as promoting unethical behaviour and failing to yield qualitative growth for the church. On the other hand, it is considered as attracting a large following to the Christian faith. The need to evaluate the impact of this type of teaching is an urgent theological and pastoral concern because it is the most appealing Christian approach to socio-economic breakthrough for contemporary Ghanaian Christians. This paper, therefore, sought to address the problem of the lack of a balanced assessment of the prosperity gospel and how its weaknesses can be addressed. The study is a literature-based research that gathered data from publications on the subject matter. Through a critical analysis and evaluation of the information gathered, the authors evaluated the overall impact of the prosperity theology on the holistic life (social, spiritual, economic and political) of its adherents and having noted some pitfalls, recommended how this popular theology can be refined. Apart from providing guidelines for addressing the challenges associated with the prosperity theology, the paper also has the potential of yielding ethical renewal for people to live responsibly as they work toward improving their socio-economic and spiritual lives. Keywords: Prosperity, Christianity, Ghana, Salvation
Sustainable Strategies in Times of Crisis Camelia Băeșu
"Ovidius" University Annals. Economic Sciences Series (Online),
12/2022, Letnik:
XXII, Številka:
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Currently, states worldwide are facing new environmental challenges due to climate change and potential increased security threats from terrorism or war. The negative events of recent years have had ...increasingly strong boomerang effects. Thus, the Covid 19 pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia are events that generated and are generating profound political and economic effects throughout the world. We are witnessing a multitude of changes in the challenges facing the world's governments in identifying strategies to ensure global well-being and prosperity. Also, there are and will continue to be great differences between developed and developing countries, stemming from their performance and economic power, but globally citizens are pressed by the same concerns, the same needs, to which they increasingly difficult. Sustainable strategies are a true key to success in mitigating the crises humanity may face in the future.
The outlined portrait of managers who behave in practice as true leaders includes a series of indispensable traits: empathy, strategic thinking, vast personal experience, integrity, respect for ...subordinates. All these traits are reflected in managerial, modern leadership tools transformed into effective leadership styles, which once put into practice lead organizations to high performance. The key to long-term success for a sufficient manager is the art of delegation. In order for delegation to take place optimally, the manager must, through the leadership styles put into practice, build solid relationships with subordinates and transform into a true leader. Reality shows that there are managers who do not know how to manage the organization's resources and achieve maximum performance. Such managers, through learning and training, can acquire the ability to lead in order to become efficient and perform tasks at peak performance. Without effective leadership the success of a manager is not possible.
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The existence of a poor community, landless farmers and tenure conflict triggers the government to launch a social forestry (SF) and an agrarian reform (Land Object Agrararian Reform-TORA) ...program. Both programs should be evaluated periodically. The objectives of the research are to (i) explain the definition of SF and TORA and their target achievement, (ii) accelerate the target achievement of SF and TORA, (iii) analyze the community prosperity before and after SF and TORA implementation, and (iv) formulate a recommendation for the effectiveness of SF and TORA future implementation. The exploration of regulation substances uses content analysis and the explanation of the whole discussion uses the descriptive qualitative method. The research result reveals that the SF program has given management rights at the state forest. Meanwhile, the TORA program has distributed property (land) rights from the state land. Both programs have the same objectives that improve and increase the prosperity of their recipient target; however, both definitions are the difference between the old and the new definition. The good acceleration of both programs is the revision of their recipient target. The prosperity of the community should be enhanced by giving them access to capital, technology, relevant training, and the market. The effectiveness of the SF and TORA program can be acheived by implementing simple and appropriate actions for their six pilars (economical, social, ecological, professional, technical, and cultural) of target achievement.
China, the largest atmospheric mercury (Hg) emitter in the world, signed the Minamata Convention on Mercury in 2013 to control Hg emissions. Meanwhile, China aims to realize common prosperity, which ...emphasizes narrowing the income gaps. In this process, the income improvement of low-income groups may challenge atmospheric Hg emission reduction via the surge in consumption. However, little is known about the relationship between residents’ income and Hg emissions. This study quantifies the atmospheric Hg footprints (i.e., atmospheric Hg emissions driven by the consumption) of income groups in urban and rural areas and reveals their socioeconomic drivers during 2007–2017. We observed a positive correlation between per capita Hg footprints and per capita income. Less developed inland regions (e.g., the Northwest and Middle of Yellow River) showed a much steeper growth trend of per capita Hg footprints with the increase of per capita income, with the growth rate ranging from 1.37 μg/¥ to 2.17 μg/¥ in 2017. This indicates that income improvement may threaten Hg emission reduction when pursuing common prosperity. Fortunately, for some developed coastal provinces (e.g., Shanghai, Tianjin, and Guangdong), changes in the consumption structure of urban high-income groups and the production structure have contributed significantly to the decrease of Hg emissions. Our findings enlighten the importance of promoting production and consumption transitions in reducing Hg emissions. Collaboration mechanisms should be established to transfer advanced technologies from developed regions to less developed regions. They can complement production-side measures and join forces to realize the win-win of Minamata Convention on Mercury and common prosperity.
•Hg footprints of income groups and socioeconomic drivers in China are investigated.•Per capita Hg footprints in less developed regions grew steeper with increase in per capita income.•Consumption transition of high-income groups in some coastal provinces benefited Hg control.•Policy suggestions for win-win of Minamata Convention and common prosperity are proposed.
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