Zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen: Recent submissions
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Decentralization and public sector delivery of health and education services: The Indian experience
Mahal, Ajay; Srivastava, Vivek; Sanan, Deepak (2000-01)The paper has two main objectives. The first is to trace the progress in the process of decentralisation in the provision of public services in India. The second is to test the hypothesis that decentralisation in the system ... -
The role of ICT for the performance of SMEs in East Africa: Empirical evidence from Kenya and Tanzania
Matambalya, Francis; Wolf, Susanna (2001-12)Small and medium enterprises are an important factor in the East African economies especially with respect to employment. The increasing competition through globalisation puts them under considerable pressure. Through the ... -
Displacement due to violence in Colombia: Determinants and consequences at the household level
Kirchhoff, Stefanie; Ibañez, Ana Maria (2001-10)The armed conflict over economic and political power in Colombia has led to the massive displacement of people living in the areas of violence. The design of appropriate policies of prevention, assistance, and resettlement ... -
Environmental kuznets curve, biodiversity and sustainability
Schubert, Renate; Dietz, Simon (2001-10)This paper deals with the question of whether for biodiversity an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) exists. In addition, we are interested in identifying the key determinants of the falling limb of such a curve. An ... -
Environmental and food safety standards in the context of trade liberalization: Issues and options
Grote, Ulrike; Kirchhoff, Stefanie (2001-06)The current debate on trade liberalization is accompanied by an increased concern about environmental and food safety issues leading to frictions of different country groups under the World Trade Organization (WTO). This ... -
Optimal water allocation in the Mekong river basin
Ringler, Claudia (2001-05)The Mekong River is the dominant geo-hydrological structure in mainland Southeast Asia, originating in China and flowing through or bordering Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Whereas water resources in the ... -
Multinational location decisions and the impact on labour markets
Gaston, Noel; Nelson, Douglas (2001-05)Foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown far more rapidly than trade during the last two decades. As with the other prominent features of globalisation, FDI is controversial. The impact of FDI on labour markets has been ... -
Environmental pollution and policies in China's township and village industrial enterprises
Taketoshi, Kazuki (2001-03)The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze economic and policy factors affecting pollution by Township and Village Industrial Enterprises (TVIEs) in China and to discuss problems and directions in environmental ... -
Growth, poverty and asset allocation: The role of the state
López, Ramón (2001-03)This paper studies the consequences of certain widespread policies for the quality and sustainability of growth. These policies cause economic inefficiency, environmental destruction and increased poverty. The paper develops ... -
Prospects of multicultural regionalism as a democratic barrier against ethnonationalism
Devic, Ana (2002-12)This paper addresses the issue of regionalism – as a form of identity and political mobilization – in the multiethnic northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, which has until today been spared of inter-ethnic violence that ... -
Economic institutional evolution and further needs for adjustments: Township village enterprises in China
Zhu, Qiuxia; Elbern, Stefanie (2002-11)Township Village Enterprises (TVEs) have essentially contributed to China’s economic development and institutional transformation over the last twenty years. One of the explanations for the mechanism of TVEs’ growth is the ... -
Selling expert knowledge: The role of consultants in Singapore's new economy
Evers, Hans-Dieter; Menkhoff, Thomas (2002-10)In the emerging globalised knowledge society/economy, a group of professionals, namely experts and consultants gain in importance. The paper discusses the following issues: Who are these experts and consultants? Why is ... -
Willingness to pay for the rural telephone service in Bangladesh and Peru
Torero, Maximo; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Galdo, Virgilio (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
Bussmann, Margit; de Soysa, Indra; Oneal, John R. (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 ... -
Mudando tudo sem mudar nada: O progressismo conservador do peronismo entre 1945-1955
Ruiz da Silva, Gustavo (2024-09)Este artigo investiga como se efetuou o movimento político feminino entre 1945 e 1955 na Argentina, especificamente dentro do Partido Peronista Feminista. Desta forma, os objetivos específicos são, em primeiro lugar, ... -
Schooling costs and child labour in rural Pakistan
Hazarika, Gautam; Bedi, Arjun S. (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
Zimmermann, Roukayatou; Qaim, Matin (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
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong (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
Jinadu, L. Adele (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
Chowdhury, Shyamal K. (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 ...