ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy: Recent submissions
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Willingness to pay for the rural telephone service in Bangladesh and Peru
(2002-10)This paper measures the rural households’ willingness to pay (WTP) for access to public telephone services in Bangladesh and Peru through contingent valuation methods. The development of contingent valuation methods together ... -
The effect of foreign investment on economic development and income inequality
(2002-10)In this paper, we assess the effect of globalization on the distribution of income within countries, focussing on the influence of foreign direct investment. We analyze data for 72 countries, 1970-90. We incorporate in our ... -
Schooling costs and child labour in rural Pakistan
(2002-10)A conventional argument in the child-labor debate is that improvements in access to schools are an effective way to reduce the labor force participation of children. It is argued that schooling competes with economic ... -
Projecting the benefits of golden rice in the Philippines
(2002-09)Golden Rice has been genetically engineered to produce beta-carotene in the endosperm of the grain. It could improve the vitamin A status of deficient food consumers, especially women and children in the developing world. ... -
Overlapping
(2002-08)We propose a new microeconomic explanation for the divergent experiences of economies in forming human capital. We suggest that the positive effect of a longer life expectancy on human capital formation arises from two ... -
Ethnic conflict & federalism in Nigeria
(2002-09)The problem I want to examine is how to characterize the relationship between <em>ethnicity</em> and <em>federalism</em> in Nigeria. I want to illustrate how the dynamics of ethnicity, by which I mean its manipulation as ... -
Attaining universal access: Public-private partnership and business-NGO partnership
(2002-07)This paper evaluates two alternative mechanisms, Public-Private Partnership in Peru and Business-NGO Partnership in Bangladesh, that provide rural people with access to telecommunications. The two mechanisms that are ... -
"Development box" and special and differential treatment for food security of developing countries: Potentials, limitations and implementation issues
(2002-05)At the Ministerial Conference in Doha, WTO member countries acknowledged the need to further correct the prevailing restrictions and distortions in agricultural world markets. The Ministerial Declaration of Doha reaffirms ... -
Is the world becoming a more risky place?: Trends in disasters and vulnerability to them
(2002-05)Numerous publications about disasters are implying that disaster vulnerability is growing. The main reasons given for this are growing populations, climate change and increasing poverty. However, maybe the current perception ... -
State formation first: Recommendations for reconstruction and peace-making in Afghanistan; english version
(2002-04)The Petersberg conference held near Bonn at the beginning of December 2001 and the donor conference held in Tokyo in mid-January 2002 defined the broad outlines for peace-making and reconstruction in Afghanistan. Under the ... -
Allocation of children's time endowment between schooling and work in rural Ethiopia
(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 ... -
Toasted forests – Evergreen rain forests of tropical Asia under drought stress
(2003-12)This paper has been written to make an enormous threat known to the public. We all know about the forest fires that raged in Indonesia and parts of Malaysia in 1997, and about the noxious haze covering the whole region, ... -
Ethnicised entitlements?: Property rights and civil war in Sri Lanka
(2003-11)The present paper investigates how ethnic violence and civil war in Sri Lanka have affected local property rights institutions . I use local case studies to analyze the institutional relations and alliances between civilians ... -
The impact of increased school enrollment on economic growth in Tanzania
(2003-10)Failure to accumulate human capital is one of the pressing problems of developing countries. Lacking human capital formation bears consequences on an economy wide level, since education contributes to labor productivity. ... -
Tales of migration without wage differentials: Individual, family, and community contexts
(2003-09)By means of examples that pertain to individual, family, and community contexts, it is shown that migration between locations is compatible with a zero expected net earnings differential between locations. The examples ... -
Democracy and ethno-religious conflict in Iraq
(2003-08)How can an escalation of tensions between the major ethno-religious groups be avoided in a democratizing Iraq? The first section explains why and under which conditions democratization may stir up, rather than palliate ... -
Rethinking the brain drain
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...
