ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy: Recent submissions
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Who forms local institutions?: Levels of household participation in India's joint forest management program
(2006-02)Participatory approaches aim at achieving representation of a broad segment of local communities, including poor and marginalized groups in natural resource management. Focusing on the case of Joint Forest Management (JFM) ... -
The trade-off between child labor and schooling: Influence of social labeling NGOs in Nepal
(2006-02)Does the labeling of products which have been produced without any child laborers contribute to increased welfare of children? This paper presents some results of a survey in Nepal conducted to analyze which factors determine ... -
Pricing, distribution and adoption of genetically modified seeds under alternative information regimes
(2007-12)This paper considers genetically modified (GM) seed adoption decisions by farmers in a developing country under two alternative information regimes (with and without perfect information regarding production conditions) ... -
Rural-to-urban migration, human capital, and agglomeration
(2007-12)A new general-equilibrium model that links together rural-to-urban migration, the externality effect of the average level of human capital, and agglomeration economies shows that in developing countries, unrestricted ... -
Social capital, ethnicity and decision-making in the Philippine vegetable market
(2007-09)The paper tackles the issue of social capital as observed in several ethnically bonded groups of agricultural rural communities in the mountainous regions of northern Philippines. In the first part of the paper, the social ... -
Losses and gains to developing countries from the migration of educated workers: An overview of recent research, and new reflections
(2007-08)This paper synthesizes and extends recent research on “The New Economics of the Brain Drain.” In a unified framework, the paper shows that while recently identified adverse repercussions of the brain drain exacerbate the ... -
Why financial incentives can destroy economically valuable biodiversity in Ethiopia
(2007-08)Ethiopian montane rainforests are economically valuable repositories of biodiversity, especially of wild <em>Coffea arabica</em> populations, and they are vanishing at accelerating rates. Our research results confirm theory ... -
The brain drain, "educated unemployment", human capital formation, and economic betterment
(2007-07)Extending both the “harmful brain drain” literature and the “beneficial brain gain” literature, this paper analyzes both the negative and the positive impact of migration by skilled individuals in a unified framework. The ... -
The analytics of seasonal migration
(2007-03)A framework that yields different possible patterns of migration as optimal solutions to a simple utility maximization problem is presented and explored. It is shown that seasonal migration arises as an optimal endogenous ... -
The impacts of biofuel production on food prices: a review
(2008-12)The various calculations of the impacts of biofuel production on the mid-term projections of food and agricultural commodity prices are difficult to reconcile. This is largely due to the intricate set of assumptions, the ... -
Chinas langer Marsch zur Umweltrevolution: Umweltprobleme und Umweltpolitik der Chinesischen Volksrepublik
(2008-10)Ein rasantes und rücksichtsloses Wirtschaftswachstum bedroht in China die Lebensgrundlagen von mehr als einer Milliarde Menschen. Umweltschutz ist so zu einer wichtigen Aufgabe geworden, der sich die Regierung nicht länger ... -
Label performance and the willingness to pay for fair trade coffee: A cross-national perspective
(2008-10)In this paper we investigate how label information detailing the performance of the Fair Trade labeling program with respect to coffee affect consumers’ willingness to pay in the United States and in Germany. We provide ... -
Scope and sustainability of cooperation in transboundary water sharing of the Volta river
(2008-09)The paper explores the scope and sustainability of a self-enforcing cooperative agreement in the framework of a game theoretic model, where the upstream and downstream country, Burkina Faso and Ghana respectively in the ... -
The impact of location on crop choice and rural livelihood: Evidences from villages in northern Ethiopia
(2008-07)This paper attempts to demonstrate how location of an agricultural economic activity in relation to urban centers determines households' decision to allot their agricultural land to the production of either staple crop or ... -
Bioenergy and rural development in developing countries: A review of existing studies
(2008-06)Four broad types of studies on rural development and bioenergy technologies are identified. Within these four types, this discussion paper presents a number of existing studies which are most relevant in the context of ... -
Shadow pricing market access: A trade benefit function approach
(2008-01)Appropriate assessment of the social value of market access is at the core of a broad range of inquiries in trade research. A selection include: the appraisal of industry-level production and consumption distortions due ... -
On the evolutionary edge of migration as an assortative mating device
(2008-02)In a haystack-type representation of a heterogeneous population that is evolving according to a payoff structure of a prisoner’s dilemma game, migration is modeled as a process of “swapping” individuals between heterogeneous ... -
The effects of the Dutch: disease in Russia
(2004-01)This paper shows how the Dutch Disease has affected the Russian economy since the start of the transition in the early 1990s. Four symptoms have been detected, namely: 1) a real exchange rate appreciation, 2) a temporary ... -
Impacts of community health insurance schemes on health care provision in rural Tanzania
(2004-01)In 1996 the Tanzanian government initiated community health insurance schemes to improve the access to health care and to protect people against the financial cost of illness in an environment with shrinking budgets for ... -
Nature's blessing or nature's curse: The political economy of transition in resource-based economies
(2004-01)This paper analyses the reform progress made in the energy-rich states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (AKTU for short) and contrasts their development ...
