The main objective of this paper is to examine the impact of economic liberalisation on employment and labour incomes in South Asia. Specifically, it examines the impact on employment growth (total, agriculture, industry), ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This paper addresses the issue of environmental and ecological impacts of nutrient flows within and between countries by reviewing and presenting data on nutrient balances and global nutrient movements. The results for ...

In diesem Aufsatz sollen zunächst die wichtigsten geo- und kulturhistorischen sowie die politischen Verständnisse „atlantischer Zivilisation“ vorgestellt werden. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Diskussion um die historische ...

Im Folgenden werden zunächst die Funktionen und der Aufbau der öffentlichen Verwaltung der Türkei dargestellt. Nach einer kurzen Einführung in die türkische Zentralverwaltung, die sich aus Hauptstadt- und Provinzorganisation ...