In dem seit 2009 laufenden Projekt „Die Gestaltung der Globalität“ geht es in erster Linie darum, problemorientiert solche Phänomene zu erfassen, die durch den global turn zu einer Neubestimmung des Begriffsverständnisses ......

Even though China has no rule of law tradition, it has been making rapid progress – since 1978 when the policy of opening-up was adopted – in setting up a legal system that is supportive of a market economy. This paper ...

This study examines four sets of questions:
• What is desertification, and how can its impact on productivity be monitored?
• How extensive is the desertification problem in the MENA region now, and how has it ...

It is now widely acknowledged that biotechnology will have significant implications for development. While biotechnology’s potential for low income economies is still the subject of controversy, this paper argues that it ...

Free distribution of a technology can be an effective development policy instrument if its adoption is socially inefficient and hampered by affordability constraints. Improved cookstoves may be such a case: they generate ...

This paper […] focuses more closely on the transregional impacts of conflicts on local residents, most of whom are not themselves personally involved in these conflicts. For young Baloch men struggling to survive within ...

Due to the geo-political history of the mountainous region stretching from the Alai in the south of Kyrgyzstan to the north-western Himalaya of India, language barriers, and also perhaps the nature of traditional area ...

This paper attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of the specially designed packages of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions with ‘student brigades’ (student teams tasked with maintaining hygiene in school) ......