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Rethinking the brain drain
Stark, Oded (2003-06)When productivity is fostered by both the individual’s human capital and by the average level of human capital in the economy, individuals under-invest in human capital. A strictly positive probability of migration to a ... -
Private sector development and competitiveness in Ghana
Wolf, Susanna (2003-05)Ghana has a relatively good international reputation with respect to political stability and macroeconomic reforms. However, its success with developing the private sector and attracting investment has at best been mixed. ... -
Strategic targeting of development policies to a complex region: A GIS-based stratification applied to Uganda
Rücker, Gerd Robert; Park, Soojin J.; Ssali, Henry; Pender, John (2003-05)It is often the case that national policies are not necessarily suitable at lower administrative levels due to the spatial complexity of natural and socio-economic resources within a country. That complexity of resources ... -
On export rivalry and the greening of agriculture: The role of eco-labels
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Grote, Ulrike (2003-04)Why do some countries establish their own national eco-labeling programs and some do not? In this paper, we provide both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence suggesting that the answer to this question can shed new ... -
Open borders, open regimes?: Testing causal direction between globalization and democracy, 1970-2000
Burkhart, Ross E.; de Soysa, Indra (2003-04)Pessimists on globalization claim that liberalization of markets allows multinational corporations free reign, constraining local autonomy and precipitating a ‘race to the bottom’ that will endanger recent democratic gains. ... -
The rationale of bank lending in pre-crisis Thailand
Menkhoff, Lukas; Suwanaporn, Chodechai (2003-04)A data set of 560 credit files from Thai commercial banks is compiled. The loans granted between 1992 and 1996 follow a pattern known from mature markets as a similar set of variables explains much of the variance in ... -
Power, institutions and moral entrepreneurs
Reich, Simon (2003-03)This paper constitutes a component of a larger research project. The larger project attempts to address two issues in international relations—one substantive and theoretical, the second epistemological and ontological.<br ... -
Global inventory of wetlands and their role in the carbon cycle
Mitra, Sudip; Wassmann, Reiner; Vlek, Paul L. G. (2003-03)Wetlands are among the most important natural resources on earth, as sources of biological, cultural and economic diversity. Conservation and management of wetlands have been identified as priority tasks for action in ... -
Design of incentives in community based health insurance schemes
Ahuja, Rajeev; Jütting, Johannes (2003-03)Community based health insurance is an emerging and promising concept that has attracted the attention of policy makers as it addresses health care challenges faced by the poor. This paper discusses solutions to important ... -
Food security in transition countries: Conceptual issues and cross-country analyses
Wehrheim, Peter; Wiesmann, Doris (2003-02)Most methodological materials and analyses of food security pertain to the classical developing countries of the world. In this paper we discuss the question what pattern of food insecurity has developed across the transition ... -
Political science tools for assessing feasibility and sustainability of reforms
Wimmer, Andreas; de Soysa, Indra; Wagner, Christian (2003-02)We were asked by the Independent Evaluation Office to outline political science methods for assessing the chances of reform implementation in an ex-ante fashion. We agreed to illustrate how these tools ‘work’ by using ... -
Towards a resource-driven model of governance: Application to lower-income transition economies
Auty, Rick (2003-02)Many developing market economies were strongly distorted during the 1960s and 1970s by fashionable policies to force industrialisation and they experienced growth collapses when exposed to the price shocks of the 1970s. ... -
Cooperation and wealth
Stark, Oded (2003-01)We calculate the equilibrium fraction of cooperators in a population in which payoffs accrue from playing a single-shot prisoner’s dilemma game. Individuals who are hardwired as cooperators or defectors are randomly matched ... -
Clean Development Mechanism: Neue Potenziale für regenerative Energien?: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer verstärkten Nutzung von Bioenergieträgern in Entwicklungsländern
Wittmer, Heidi; Berger, Thomas (2002-12)The agreement on the Clean Development Mechanism as a flexible instrument of emissions reduction within the Kyoto protocol opens up new perspectives for the implementation of regenerative energy projects in developing ... -
Towards a theory of self-segregation as a response to relative deprivation: Steady-state outcames and social welfare
Stark, Oded; Wang, You Qiang (2004-12)We model group formation as a response to relative deprivation. We employ two measures of relative deprivation. We show that in the case of each of these measures the process of deprivation-induced self-selection into ... -
Agricultural policies in Vietnam: Producer support estimates, 1986-2002
Nguyen, Hoa; Grote, Ulrike (2004-12)Since 1986, Vietnam has moved from a centrally planned towards a market-oriented system through several major economic and trade reforms. First positive results of the reform process became visible in the early 1990s when ... -
Black-box frontiers and implications for development policy: Theoretical considerations
Sauer, Johannes; Frohberg, Klaus; Hockmann, Heinrich (2004-12)The availability of efficiency estimation software – freely distributed via the internet and relatively easy to use – recently inflated the number of corresponding applications. The resulting efficiency estimates are used ... -
Heuristic considerations on the typology of groups and minorities
Ihne, Hartmut (2004-12)Minority rights play a significant role in development policy, especially within inhomogeneous societies. The justification of minority rights is linked to the justification of human rights. The study develops elements of ... -
Exploiting common resources with capital-intensive technologies: The role of external forces
Engel, Stefanie; López, Ramón (2004-11)This paper focuses on the interactions between local communities having at least some degree of informal claims over natural resources and external agents, particularly firms interested in commercial resource exploitation. ... -
On the demand for grandchildren: Tied transfers and the demonstration effect
Cox, Donald; Stark, Oded (2004-09)It is argued that parents provide help with housing downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such a subsidization emanates from the “demonstration effect:” a child’s propensity to furnish ...