Zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen: Neuzugänge
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Status aspirations, wealth inequality, and economic growth
(2005-02)This paper argues that an increase in the inequality of wealth prompts a stronger quest for status that in turn fosters the accumulation of wealth. It proposes a measure for an individual’s want of social status. For a ... -
Dealing with fragile states: Entry points and approaches for development cooperation
(2005-12)Fragile states are characterised by a great potential for crisis that endangers human security and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is increasingly being recognized that external actors should ... -
Efficiency and biodiversity: Empirical evidence from Tanzania
(2005-11)This paper aims to deliver empirical evidence on the links between production efficiency, biodiversity, and resource management by analysing a case study on small-scale tobacco production in the Miombo woodlands in Tanzania. ... -
Scope and constraints for tree planting in the irrigated landscapes of the Aral Sea Basin: case studies in Khorezm Region, Uzbekistan
(2006-12)A wealth of research papers, reports, and newsprint demonstrate the wide international interest in the ecological deterioration in the Aral Sea Basin in Central Asia (CA). The demise of the Aral Sea is a symptom that results ... -
A reluctance to assimilate
(2006-10)Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their host society, even though the economic returns (increased productivity and enhanced earnings) to ... -
International migration and "educated unemployment"
(2006-06)This paper provides a novel explanation of “educated unemployment,” which is a salient feature of the labor markets in a number of developing countries. In a simple job-search framework we show that “educated unemployment” ... -
Work effort, moderation in expulsion, and illegal migration
(2006-05)Illegal migrants supply a valuable productive input: effort. But their status as illegals means that these migrants face a strictly positive probability of expulsion. A return to their country of origin entails reduced ... -
Impact of labor standards on Egyptian exports with special emphasis on child labor
(2006-04)A large proportion of internationally traded goods are subject to labor standards and this proportion is on a continuing rise. Such developments created a hot debate about the impact of labor standards on trade, but there ... -
East Africa: cycles of violence, and the paradox of peace
(2006-04)This paper contributes to explaining variation in violence in post-independence East Africa. By focussing on Tanzania and Uganda, our comparative ‘most-similar-cases’ research design ensures significant across- and within-case ... -
Migration due to the tsunami in Sri Lanka: Analyzing vulnerability and migration at the household level
(2006-04)To achieve a better understanding of the diverse vulnerabilities of different social groups affected by the tsunami in December 2004 in Sri Lanka, a survey of 500 households in the Sri Lankan urban area of Galle has been ... -
Household migration decisions as survival strategy: The case of Burkina Faso
(2006-04)The paper examines the basic determinants behind the process of migration from Burkina Faso to Cote d’Ivoire. It uses a detailed household survey dataset on migration, natural resource management, risk management and ... -
Rice biotechnology and its potential to combat vitamin A deficiency: A case study of golden rice in Bangladesh
(2006-03)Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) remains a public health problem in many developing countries. Thousands of preschool children go blind every year, and many of them die due to VAD. Also VAD weakens the immune system, making ... -
Who forms local institutions?: Levels of household participation in India's joint forest management program
(2006-02)Participatory approaches aim at achieving representation of a broad segment of local communities, including poor and marginalized groups in natural resource management. Focusing on the case of Joint Forest Management (JFM) ... -
The trade-off between child labor and schooling: Influence of social labeling NGOs in Nepal
(2006-02)Does the labeling of products which have been produced without any child laborers contribute to increased welfare of children? This paper presents some results of a survey in Nepal conducted to analyze which factors determine ... -
Pricing, distribution and adoption of genetically modified seeds under alternative information regimes
(2007-12)This paper considers genetically modified (GM) seed adoption decisions by farmers in a developing country under two alternative information regimes (with and without perfect information regarding production conditions) ... -
Rural-to-urban migration, human capital, and agglomeration
(2007-12)A new general-equilibrium model that links together rural-to-urban migration, the externality effect of the average level of human capital, and agglomeration economies shows that in developing countries, unrestricted ... -
Social capital, ethnicity and decision-making in the Philippine vegetable market
(2007-09)The paper tackles the issue of social capital as observed in several ethnically bonded groups of agricultural rural communities in the mountainous regions of northern Philippines. In the first part of the paper, the social ... -
Losses and gains to developing countries from the migration of educated workers: An overview of recent research, and new reflections
(2007-08)This paper synthesizes and extends recent research on “The New Economics of the Brain Drain.” In a unified framework, the paper shows that while recently identified adverse repercussions of the brain drain exacerbate the ... -
Why financial incentives can destroy economically valuable biodiversity in Ethiopia
(2007-08)Ethiopian montane rainforests are economically valuable repositories of biodiversity, especially of wild <em>Coffea arabica</em> populations, and they are vanishing at accelerating rates. Our research results confirm theory ... -
The brain drain, "educated unemployment", human capital formation, and economic betterment
(2007-07)Extending both the “harmful brain drain” literature and the “beneficial brain gain” literature, this paper analyzes both the negative and the positive impact of migration by skilled individuals in a unified framework. The ...
