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EXTRACTIVISM Lecture Series 22/23: Oil and the Middle Classes in Iran
08.12.2022 in Marburg: Oil and the middle classes in Iran (Prof. Dr. Mohammed Farzanegan, Philipps University Marburg)
The lecture will examine the impact of oil revenues on the size and income of the middle class in Iran. Following Kharas (2017), an absolute measure is used to define the middle class as those earning between 11 and 110 US dollars per day (2011 PPP). The study uses annual time series data for the period 1965-2017 and a vector autoregressive (VAR) model along with impulse response and variance decomposition analyses. The results show that the response of the middle class to positive oil income shocks in Iran is positive and significant. It is also shown that the channels of international non-oil trade, service sector and macroeconomic development are important for understanding the relationship between oil income and the middle class in Iran. These results are robust when other channels related to oil income and the middle class are considered, as well as alternative definitions of middle class income based on relative measures from the Iranian Household Income and Expenditure Surveys.
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Climate Change and Extractives: Risk or Opportunity?
Extractivism lecture series in the winter semester 2022/2023
It is already foreseeable that the global importance of raw materials will continue to increase in the coming years. Efforts to make the energy transition sustainable and thus help shape climate change require that raw materials are given a special status. The desired energy transition for the purpose of sustainable climate policy will massively change the raw material basis of the global economy. This not only means profound change processes for the countries of the Global North, but also has serious consequences for many countries of the South that depend on raw material exports. This challenges the existing structure of the international system and the global economy.
The lecture series addresses this problem context and approaches the issues initially from the perspective of Latin America and the Maghreb. The contributions focus on the relationship between raw materials and climate change from an empirical, regional and/or theoretical perspective. They are linked by the fact that they not only analyze the risks of the relationship between raw materials and climate change, but also illuminate the possibilities and opportunities.
The lecture series takes place on Thursdays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. alternately in Kassel and Marburg. To participate in the event online, you can register HERE.
27.10.2022 in Kassel: 500 years of interdependence between Latin America and Europe (Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, University of Kassel)
03.11.2022 in Kassel: Amazon, oil reserves and corporate climate management: A Brazilian perspective on the achievability of the Paris climate goals (Prof. Dr. Anita Engels, Thomas Frisch, Solange Commelin; University of Hamburg)
10.11.2022 in Marburg: Patrimonial capitalism, pensions and development (Prof. Dr. Oliver Schlumberger, University of Tübingen)
17. 11.2022 in Kassel: Geopolitics of the "Great Transformation" (Prof. Dr. Markus Lederer, Technical University of Darmstadt)
24.11.2022 in Kassel: Petrolism in the Middle East (Prof. Dr. Martin Beck, Kurdistan University Hewlêr)
01.12.20 22 in Kassel: Supply chain laws and certification of resources (Prof. Dr. Lena Partzsch, Freie Universität Berlin)
08.12.2022 in Marburg: Oil and the middle classes in Iran (Prof. Dr. Mohammed Farzanegan, Philipps University Marburg)
15.12.2022 in Kassel: Circular economy, raw materials and climate change (Prof. Dr. Sina Leipold, Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig)
12.01.2023 in Marburg: Everything flows? The importance of water for the social contract in Morocco (Dr. Annabelle Houdret, German Development Institute, Bonn)
19.01.20 23 in Kassel: Is Latin America too rich for development? (Dr. Hannes Warnecke-Berger / Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, University of Kassel)
26.01.20 23 in Marburg: Climate change and prospects for socio-ecological transformation (Prof. Dr. Klaus Dörre, Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
02.02.20 23 in Kassel: News of the "resource curse": On the relationality of unequal development (Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
09.02.2022 in Marburg: 500 years of interdependence between the Maghreb and Europe (Prof. Dr. Rachid Ouaissa, Philipps University Marburg)