Auflistung ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy nach Erscheinungsdatum
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Child labor and the international policy debate: The education/child labor trade-off and the consequences of trade sanctions
(1998-09)This paper provides an overview of the current academic and public debate on child labor. There is growing impetus to impose international minimum labor standards banning child labor. However, this paper argues that while ... -
Water insecurity and the poor: Issues and research needs
(1998-10)Household water insecurity is a pressing problem in developing countries. Unsustainable water withdrawal is increasing due to population growth, industrialization, urbanization, and increasing agricultural production which ... -
Crop biotechnology in developing countries: A conceptual framework for ex ante economic analyses
(1998-11)It is now widely acknowledged that biotechnology will have significant implications for development. While biotechnology’s potential for low income economies is still the subject of controversy, this paper argues that it ... -
Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien in Entwicklungsländern: Trends und Potentiale
(1999-01)Since the mid 80s information and communication technologies (ICT) played an ever increasing role within the developed world. Industrialised and newly industrialising economies make big financial and organisational efforts ... -
Governance and economic performance: A survey
(1999-04)This paper presents a framework for analyzing the determinants and effects of public governance and a survey of recent theoretical and empirical studies pertaining to developing and transition countries. It explains how ... -
Lebensmittelhandel und Konsumtrends in China
(1999-05)Das Ziel dieser Studie besteht darin, durch Beschreibung der Strukturen und Trends im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel Chinas potentiellen Investoren und Exporteuren praktische Informationen bereitzustellen. Diese beschreibende ... -
The role of information and communication technologies in economic development: A partial survey
(1999-05)The diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their potential as a development tool have generated a wide array of views. The variety of views suggests that the role and impact of these technologies ... -
Strengthening social security systems in rural areas of developing countries
(1999-06)It is now generally accepted that the approach of enlarging state-based social security systems in developing countries in order to achieve universal coverage has failed. It is the poor and rural population in particular ... -
Village pay phones and poverty reduction: Insights from a grameen bank initiative in Bangladesh
(1999-06)The intent of the present study is to evaluate the role of telecommunications within the contexts of rural development in general and of poverty reduction in particular. Bangladesh has been selected as a case study due to ... -
Assessing desertification and water harvesting in the Middle East and North Africa: Policy implications
(1999-07)This study examines four sets of questions:<br /> • What is desertification, and how can its impact on productivity be monitored?<br /> • How extensive is the desertification problem in the MENA region now, and how has it ... -
Legal reforms in China
(1999-08)Even though China has no rule of law tradition, it has been making rapid progress – since 1978 when the policy of opening-up was adopted – in setting up a legal system that is supportive of a market economy. This paper ... -
Bad banking in Thailand?: An empirical analysis of macro indicators
(1999-08)It appears to be common wisdom that the basic cause of Thailand's crisis is its extraordinarily weak financial institutions. The paper questions this proposition from an empirical viewpoint. It is well established that the ... -
Nutrition improvement projects in Tanzania: Appropriate choice of institutions matters
(1999-08)Nutrition Improvement Projects (NIPs) are sets of planned activities specifically undertaken as interventions to reduce malnutrition and its associated problems in the communities. The study focused on five NIPs of varying ... -
Information technology and exports: A case study of Indian garments manufacturing enterprises
(1999-08)This study identifies and analyses the factors that influence the export performance of Indian garments manufacturing firms. The data come from a sample of seventy-four firms located in Okhla. The results show that intensity ... -
Externalities, human capital formation, and corrective migration policy
(1999-08)When productivity is fostered by an individual’s own human capital as well as by the economy-wide average level of human capital, individuals under-invest in human capital. A strictly positive probability of migration to ... -
Die Bedeutung von Telekommunikationsdiensten für wirtschaftliches Wachstum
(1999-09)The availability of telecommunications services is a necessary, though insufficient prerequisite for economic growth. In combination with transport, education, functioning financial markets, electricity, etc., telecommunications ... -
Spending on conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture: How much and how efficient?
(1999-09)With growing awareness of the dangers of an irreversible loss of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA), there has been a major effort devoted to collecting and conserving plant genetic resources. The ... -
The international debate and economic consequences of eco-labeling
(1999-09)In this paper we analyze the effectiveness of eco-labels in reducing the supply of eco-unfriendly products. We focus on the situation where a labeled product is viewed by consumers as a private good and develop a theoretical ... -
Towards enhancing the role of microfinance for safety nets of the poor
(1999-10)Many of the poor borrow, more save, and most of them demand insurance products or related substitutes. However, most of these financial products, especially those catering towards the need for consumption stabilization are ... -
Decentralization and public sector delivery of health and education services: The Indian experience
(2000-01)The paper has two main objectives. The first is to trace the progress in the process of decentralisation in the provision of public services in India. The second is to test the hypothesis that decentralisation in the system ...
