Nova Science Publishers – To Archeio https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:23:31 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 An overview of Greece’s “brain drain” crisis: Morphology and beyond https://toarcheio.org/items/an-overview-of-greeces-brain-drain-crisis-morphology-and-beyond/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:49 +0000 http://arc.local/items/an-overview-of-greeces-brain-drain-crisis-morphology-and-beyond/ Continued]]> Greece’s severe economic crisis has been adversely affecting the country as a whole. One response to economic strain, unemployment and the lack of prospects has been the resumption of emigration, which has been expounding significantly. This is not dissimilar with the situation among other crisis-ridden countries too. The crisis’s most adverse impact is also reflected in Greece’s higher education. Specifically, the crisis has encroached and upset the market situation of both university teaching staff and Master and PhD holders to such a measure that it has come to operate as a potent push factor for an intensified brain drain. Indeed, the ongoing migratory exodus is directed primarily, but not exclusively, to Western EU countries, and operates as a survival mechanism. It affects the highly educated or trained, which are the new and potent element when compared with earlier episodes of emigration, although it is not solely limited to them. Even so, the assets that the highly educated actors mobilized in leaving the country and their numerical preponderance point to a middle-class social background. In fact, the resumption of the brain drain from Greece may also be seen as a pre-eminently middle-class social response to the crisis.

]]> Brain drain in higher education in Europe: Current trends and future perspectives https://toarcheio.org/items/brain-drain-in-higher-education-in-europe-current-trends-and-future-perspectives/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:48 +0000 http://arc.local/items/brain-drain-in-higher-education-in-europe-current-trends-and-future-perspectives/ Continued]]> Since the early 1990s, certain European Union (EU) initiatives such as the Erasmus programme provided the opportunity to a great number of academics, researchers and students to move for a relatively short period of time to other EU member states in order to enhance their skills and improve their career potential (a phenomenon known as ‘brain circulation’). The popularity of particular member states such as Italy, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdoom has gradually created an influx of highly skilled staff especially from the less developed EU member states, from Southern Europe and the former Eastern European countries. The proposed changes in the EU Higher Education and Research frameworks during the 1990s and the 2000s encupsulated in the Bologna and Lisbon initiatives respectively, have had controversial results. In addition, the internationalisation and to a great extent the (competitive) commercialisation of Higher Education (HE) has left many EU member states behind since they failed to reform their national HE systems. A masive exodus of academics and researchers was observed from 2008 until 2017, mainly from the countries that suffered more the consequeses of the economic crisis (Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and Cyprus). The destination (host) countries included primarily locations within the EU, with the most popular being the the UK and Germany. The mass emigration of academic staff within and outside the EU (‘brain drain’) is causing loss of highly skilled human capital with catastrophic consequenses for the sending (home) countries. On the other hand, host member states utilise to the maximum the capabilities of the EU academics and researchers (‘brain gain’) in order to achieve competitive advantage in the so called ‘knowledge economy’.

]]> Challenges and redefinitions of birth in the maternity landscapes of volos, Greece https://toarcheio.org/items/challenges-and-redefinitions-of-birth-in-the-maternity-landscapes-of-volos-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:40 +0000 http://arc.local/items/challenges-and-redefinitions-of-birth-in-the-maternity-landscapes-of-volos-greece/ Continued]]> Childbirth is in recent years regarded as a complex phenomenon, not only as a biological fact but as a social and spatial process that interacts with the physical and symbolic environment in which it takes place. Through its social definition as a pathological event and its positioning in medical institutions, birth and reproduction have been placed under the jurisdiction of medical experts in most of the West in the 20th century. The medicalisation of birth, however, is being challenged actively in the last decades, both by birthing women and health professionals, while less interventionist methods of birth care are becoming more popular together with the creation of more intimate birthing territories. In Greece in particular, in this period of economic recession it is going through, maternity care practices, birth spaces and related conceptualisations of reproduction appear to be undergoing a transformation. The downgrading of medical services caused by the crisis seems to have affected the quality of maternity care. At the same time the universal medicalisation of childbirth is being questioned because of the high rates of interventions and their negative consequences on the health of mother and baby. Hence nowadays less interventionist alternatives have started to emerge, such as ʼnatural’ birth in the maternity hospitals or birth at home. Birth care practices, arrangements and uses of birthing spaces are undergoing changes too. Together with women’s new attitudes, these developments constitute a trend to redefine childbirth as a normal physiological event and mothers as active birth-givers. This essay aims to contribute to the discussion on the present and future of the maternity care system by presenting the interaction of space and maternity practices with new significations of birth and birth care in the maternity landscape of a provincial town in Greece.

]]> Greece: Economic crises and management https://toarcheio.org/items/greece-economic-crises-and-management/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:39 +0000 http://arc.local/items/greece-economic-crises-and-management/ Is a “bad bank” solution for a possible future Greek banking crisis? https://toarcheio.org/items/is-a-bad-bank-solution-for-a-possible-future-greek-banking-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:14 +0000 http://arc.local/items/is-a-bad-bank-solution-for-a-possible-future-greek-banking-crisis/ Continued]]> This chapter examines the “bad bank” solution for a possible future Greek banking crisis which might originate by the accumulation of non-performing loans in banks’ loan portfolios. “Bad bank” solution in Greece is apart from all a funding problem and it is not the best solution to be implied because the Greek economy and the Greek banking sector are in a very weak fiscal position. Greek enhancement programme of ε28 billion was not enough to stabilize the Greek banking sector and offer sufficient funding in the Greek economy. In order to prevent possible future liquidity crisis, there is need to improve liquidity buffer (safe assets) of the Greek banking sector which means higher capital adequacy standards to limit liquidity risk and implement better risk management. A combination of mergers and acquisitions would be the best solution.

]]> Stabilization and reform in a statist regime, 1974-2011 https://toarcheio.org/items/stabilization-and-reform-in-a-statist-regime-1974-2011/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:13 +0000 http://arc.local/items/stabilization-and-reform-in-a-statist-regime-1974-2011/ Continued]]> This chapter deals with the politics of economic stabilization and reform in Greece and addresses questions already raised in the literature. The focus is specifically on the changes in economic and social policies characterized by a transition from statist designs to ambivalent liberal reforms. Thereby, we do not address one policy field alone but look at a number of core issues or policies that include fiscal discipline, product and labor market reforms, privatization, pensions and environment. The analysis, covering the entire time span from 1974 on to the present, is a tale of an ultimately failed liberal adjustment. To explain it we apply mainly soft public choice approaches about interest-based behavior; (institutionalist) references to path-dependent political norms and practices and formal rules of the game; and, inevitably, ideas, while allowing for the impact of multilateral arrangements and crisis as external inducements to reform. The course of things and the exemplifications we provide invite to a reexamination of the ultimate balance between institutionalized coordination mechanisms of the EU and domestic forces.

Stabilization and reform in a statist regime, 1974-2011. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287061235_Stabilization_and_reform_in_a_statist_regime_1974-2011 [accessed Aug 22 2018].

]]> The Greek economic crisis: A trigger for public administration reforms? https://toarcheio.org/items/the-greek-economic-crisis-a-trigger-for-public-administration-reforms/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:13 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-greek-economic-crisis-a-trigger-for-public-administration-reforms/ Continued]]> Greece was the first European Monetary Union country to sign a Memorandum with the European Commission and the European Central Bank in order to secure financial assistance and prevent a total collapse of its economy following the severe international economic crisis. This Memorandum (2010), offered detailed steps of structural reforms that have affected all public services in Greece. The lack of major results and the stickiness of the ‘Greek problem’ have made Greece a unique casestudy for evaluating both the recipe of the international donors and the domestic capacity for reform. A historical institutionalist approach and the concept of ‘policy paradigm’ are combined in order to evaluate what are the conditions for a major administrative reform in time of crisis. The article focuses on the specific attempt to reform public administration during the Papandreou government in order to analyse the importance of both time and type of change in the success of a major reform programme.

]]> Info-communication globalisation and the Global Info-Cash (GIC): A practical way for Greece to emerge from the crisis https://toarcheio.org/items/info-communication-globalisation-and-the-global-info-cash-gic-a-practical-way-for-greece-to-emerge-from-the-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:12 +0000 http://arc.local/items/info-communication-globalisation-and-the-global-info-cash-gic-a-practical-way-for-greece-to-emerge-from-the-crisis/ Continued]]> Nowadays digital transactions are part of our everyday life. The info-communication globalisation becomes a fact of life for civil society worldwide, involving many actors – politicians, activists, non-governmental organisations, info-communication firms, software providers and political parties. This raises obvious questions for the role of new communications technologies, the recent Greek crisis, the info-communication public sphere, participatory democracy and the digital form of currencies. As the info-communication public sphere gets more complex and chaotic, regular citizens/users/consumers are gaining access to digital entertainment, information and education anywhere and at anytime. This chapter examines and analyses the role of the info-communication globalisation in recent Greek crisis. It introduces the info-communication public sphere and the participatory democracy as analytical ‘tools’ to examine the Greek crisis. Moreover, it analyses the Greek crisis together with the recent crisis in the USA. Finally, it strongly recommends that a practical way for Greece and the USA to emerge from the recent crisis is: to switch off the physical form of the Euro and dollar currencies, i.e. the cash payments using different currencies such as the Euro and the Dollar and switch on the digital form of single currency the Global Info-Cash (GIG), i.e. the info-cash payment using the digital subdivision of the Global Info-Cash, such as Info-CashGR and Info-CashUSA.

Info-communication globalisation and the Global Info-Cash (GIC): A practical way for Greece to emerge from the crisis | Request PDF. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292488772_Info-communication_globalisation_and_the_Global_Info-Cash_GIC_A_practical_way_for_Greece_to_emerge_from_the_crisis [accessed Aug 22 2018].

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