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Africa – EU Relations: The evolution of an agenda of partnership
Brujić, Dušan (2024-01)This paper gives an overview of the evolution of the Africa-EU Partnership and its priorities between the years 2000 and 2022. It delves into the complex and dynamic relations between the two partners, whilst exploring ... -
African agricultural mechanization: Myths, realities and an emerging research agenda
Daum, Thomas; Birner, Regina (2019-12)African farm systems remain the least mechanized of all continents. There were substantial state-led efforts to promote agricultural mechanization during the 1960s and 1970s, but these efforts failed, which led to a ... -
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Agglomeration, pollution, and migration: A substantial link, and policy design
Stark, Oded; Pang, Yu; Fan, Simon (2022-12)We study a developing countries setting in which agglomeration efficiency of urban production attracts rural-to-urban migration, whereas urban pollution deters rural-to-urban migration. By means of a general equilibrium ... -
Agricultural commodity prices, governance, and land supply in the Tropics
Miranda, Javier; Börner, Jan (2023-04)Sustainable use of land resources is at the core of the bioeconomy, and it is of central importance for development in the coming decades. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals reflect this aspect of development ... -
Agricultural Credit System in India: Evolution, Effectiveness and Innovations
Gulati, Ashok; Juneja, Ritika (2019-09)Indian agriculture is dominated by smallholders. With an average holding size of just 1.08 ha (in 2015-16), and 86 percent of holdings being of less than 2 ha size, Indian agriculture produces sufficient food, feed, and ... -
Agricultural Innovations at the Technological Frontier in India
Baraké, Evelyn; Ganguly, Kavery; Gulati, Ashok; von Braun, Joachim (2017-07)Innovations in agriculture hold the key to unlocking sustainable, inclusive growth potential while securing employment opportunities for young people. In India, this has given rise to a new generation of entrepreneurs and ... -
Agricultural Input Use in Nigeria: Consistency, Complementarity, and Credit
Olaoye, Malik (2023-08)There are complex synergies between different agricultural inputs and practices. For example, improved seeds reach maximum yields only in combination with fertiliser, and fertilisers may have limited effects without adequate ... -
The Agricultural mechanization in Africa: micro-level analysis of state drivers and effects
Kirui, Oliver Kiptoo (2019-04)This paper examines the state, drivers and, consequently, the impacts of agricultural mechanization in eleven countries in Africa. Using representative multistage stratified household survey data and robust analytical ... -
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 ... -
Agrivoltaics increases public acceptance of solar energy production on agricultural land
Zeddies, Hendrik Hilmar; Parlasca, Martin; Qaim, Matin (2025-02-14)Competition for land is a key challenge for decarbonized energy transitions. Open-space solar energy farms are gaining in importance but have large land requirements and displace agricultural production. Agrivoltaics offers ... -
AI and the form of capital: Preliminary notes on the media culture of artificial intelligence
Schröter, Jens; Ernst, Christoph (2018-04)Recently there is much talk about the coming possibilities of “Artificial Intelligence” or “Robotics”. But these technological developments are embedded in a media culture. The recent data surge is at once the precondition ... -
AIAS – AI-gestütztes akademisches Schreiben: Neue Wege für die Geistes-, Kultur- und Humanwissenschaften
Zöllner, Reinhard (2024)Die Studie gibt einen Überblick über Risiken und Chancen der Anwendung künstlicher Intelligenz im Kontext des akademischen Schreibens und entwirft eine Gesamtstrategie zur Einführung des AI-gestützten akademischen Schreibens ... -
Allocation of children's time endowment between schooling and work in rural Ethiopia
Admassie, Assefa (2002-02)Children have always been part of the economic life of societies. Historical evidence indicates that the contribution of children to family income in cash or in kind has been consistently significant. Currently, the issue ... -
Allocation of EU aid towards ACP-countries
Wolf, Susanna; Spoden, Dominik (2000-03)In the renegotiations of the Lomé Convention (1998-2000) not only trade issues but also the aid relationship were under review. A major challenge is induced by the EU's proposal of shifting the aid allocation from needs ... -
Altruistic giving and risk taking in human affairs
Stark, Oded; Balbus, Lukasz (2024-11-14)The purpose of this paper is to provide a general proposition of the relationship between altruism and risk taking. As explained in the body of the paper, we diverge from a result reported in Stark et al. (2022) and provide ... -
Die Ambivalenz des Fortschriftts: Freiheit unter globalen Bedingungen weiterdenken
Kühnhardt, Ludger (2024)ZEI-Direktor Prof. Dr. Ludger Kühnhardt blickt zurück auf seine Antrittsvorlesung an der Universität Bonn 1987. Darin ging es um das politische Denken in der südlichen Hemisphäre. Im Geist der Zeit war seine Analyse verhalten ... -
Amefricanizar el feminismo: La construcción de la identidad negra como herramienta de resistencia en América Latina y el Caribe
Andrade Costa de Mendoça Lima, Amanda; Portugal-Ramírez, Mario S.; da Silva Cabral, Karla Kely; Azorín García, Eduardo (2022)El presente artículo explora los afrofeminismos inspirados en torno al concepto de ‘amefricanidad’ en Brasil, Cuba y Colombia en los últimos diez años (2011-2021). La ‘amefricanidad’ es un término para referirse a los ... -
America and Europe in the twenty-first century
Bindenagel, James D. (2016)Die Briten haben für einen Austritt aus der Europäischen Union gestimmt. Die „Brexit“- Debatte steht symbolisch für die Europa und die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika umwälzenden populistischen Kräfte. Misstrauen gegenüber ... -
Améliorer les perspectives d'emploi pour la jeunesse rurale d'afrique: Exploiter le pontentiel du secteur agricole pour la creation d’emploi à long terme
Buma Dema, Rudolf; von Braun, Joachim; Kofol, Chiara (2017-11)La prévalence d’emplois vulnérables constitue le principal défi du marché du travail dans les zones rurales. L’organisation Internationale du travail estime que parmi les jeunes travailleurs de l’Afrique subsaharienne ...