Zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Open borders, open regimes?: Testing causal direction between globalization and democracy, 1970-2000
(2003-04)Pessimists on globalization claim that liberalization of markets allows multinational corporations free reign, constraining local autonomy and precipitating a ‘race to the bottom’ that will endanger recent democratic gains. ... -
The rationale of bank lending in pre-crisis Thailand
(2003-04)A data set of 560 credit files from Thai commercial banks is compiled. The loans granted between 1992 and 1996 follow a pattern known from mature markets as a similar set of variables explains much of the variance in ... -
Power, institutions and moral entrepreneurs
(2003-03)This paper constitutes a component of a larger research project. The larger project attempts to address two issues in international relations—one substantive and theoretical, the second epistemological and ontological.<br ... -
Global inventory of wetlands and their role in the carbon cycle
(2003-03)Wetlands are among the most important natural resources on earth, as sources of biological, cultural and economic diversity. Conservation and management of wetlands have been identified as priority tasks for action in ... -
Design of incentives in community based health insurance schemes
(2003-03)Community based health insurance is an emerging and promising concept that has attracted the attention of policy makers as it addresses health care challenges faced by the poor. This paper discusses solutions to important ... -
Food security in transition countries: Conceptual issues and cross-country analyses
(2003-02)Most methodological materials and analyses of food security pertain to the classical developing countries of the world. In this paper we discuss the question what pattern of food insecurity has developed across the transition ... -
Political science tools for assessing feasibility and sustainability of reforms
(2003-02)We were asked by the Independent Evaluation Office to outline political science methods for assessing the chances of reform implementation in an ex-ante fashion. We agreed to illustrate how these tools ‘work’ by using ... -
Towards a resource-driven model of governance: Application to lower-income transition economies
(2003-02)Many developing market economies were strongly distorted during the 1960s and 1970s by fashionable policies to force industrialisation and they experienced growth collapses when exposed to the price shocks of the 1970s. ... -
Cooperation and wealth
(2003-01)We calculate the equilibrium fraction of cooperators in a population in which payoffs accrue from playing a single-shot prisoner’s dilemma game. Individuals who are hardwired as cooperators or defectors are randomly matched ...
