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The Opportunity Cost of Financing Oportunidades: A General Equilibrium Assessment for Poverty Reduction in Mexico
(2015-03-18)
Despite the fact that Mexico has achieved macroeconomic stability after the financial crisis in 1995, it has failed to generate sustained high economic growth rates and to substantially reduce poverty and income inequality. ......
Obwohl Mexiko nach der Finanzkrise 1995 wieder makroökonomische Stabilität erreicht hat, ist es nicht gelungen, stabile hohe ökonomische Wachstumsraten zu generieren und die Armut und Einkommensungleichheit substantiell ......
Obwohl Mexiko nach der Finanzkrise 1995 wieder makroökonomische Stabilität erreicht hat, ist es nicht gelungen, stabile hohe ökonomische Wachstumsraten zu generieren und die Armut und Einkommensungleichheit substantiell ......
Resource Allocation for Health in Tanzania – Determinants and Development Implications
(2015-04-09)
The optimal allocation of scarce resources for health improvement is a crucial factor to lower the burden of disease and to strengthen the productive capacities of people living in developing countries. This research project ...
Price effects from the financialization of agricultural commodity markets
(2015-05-12)
Supposed portfolio benefits of commodities and the increased availability of commodity linked investment products such as index funds contribute to a financialization of agricultural commodity markets. The parallel increase ...
Policies for food security in India: an assessment of current policies and reform options
(2016-09-27)
Ever since India’s independence large-scale government interventions have been drastically shaping the landscape of the food grain sector. From a famine-prone country, India has become a large exporter and stockholder, ...
Social interactions, aspirations, and agricultural innovations: Linkages with income and food security in rural Ethiopia
(2016-11-09)
The persistence of poverty in some parts of the society across the globe inspired recent studies in development economics to embrace the use of multidisciplinary tools and concepts to better understand the situation of the ...
Water Policy in South Africa: Effects, impacts, and the associated transaction costs in the Olifants Basin
(2016-06-24)
South Africa as a water scarce country recognizes that it is no longer possible to augment existing water supplies. The country has therefore intensified efforts to implement its comprehensive National Water Act, which ...
Economics of Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management and Poverty in Eastern Africa: The Extent, Drivers, Costs and Impacts
(2016-05-24)
Land degradation – defined by the Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) initiative as a “reduction in the economic value of ecosystem services and goods derived from land” – is a serious impediment to improving rural livelihoods ...
Resilience, collapse and reorganization of a rangeland socio-ecological system in South Africa
(2016-05-24)
Communal rangelands in semi-arid areas are complex socio-ecological systems (SES). Their complexity arises from non-linear feedbacks between the social- and the ecosystem. To understand the social system requires tackling ...
Public Services, Social Protection, and Poverty: Evidence from Indonesia
(2016-04-25)
Although global poverty reduction strategies have achieved some positive results, 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty. Two principal strategies are commonly used to tackle poverty: the provision of public ...
Assessing the Role of Trade and Reserve Cooperation in the Food Price Dynamics: Indonesia in the Regional and Global Economic Architecture
(2016-04-25)
The dissertation discusses the potential roles of trade and food reserve cooperation among countries in pursuing more stable food prices, with a special focus on Indonesia. The study starts by analyzing food price movements ...