Zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen: Recent submissions
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Nutrition improvement projects in Tanzania: Appropriate choice of institutions matters
(1999-08)Nutrition Improvement Projects (NIPs) are sets of planned activities specifically undertaken as interventions to reduce malnutrition and its associated problems in the communities. The study focused on five NIPs of varying ... -
Externalities, human capital formation, and corrective migration policy
(1999-08)When productivity is fostered by an individual’s own human capital as well as by the economy-wide average level of human capital, individuals under-invest in human capital. A strictly positive probability of migration to ... -
Assessing desertification and water harvesting in the Middle East and North Africa: Policy implications
(1999-07)This study examines four sets of questions:<br /> • What is desertification, and how can its impact on productivity be monitored?<br /> • How extensive is the desertification problem in the MENA region now, and how has it ... -
On a variation in the economic performance of migrants by their home country's wage
(2000-10)While the economic performance of migrants in the receiving country undoubtedly depends on qualifications, it is also affected by inclinations. Given the probability of return migration, we establish a behavioral link ... -
Desertification: Concept, causes and amelioration
(2000-10)Desertification is a condition of human-induced land degradation that occurs in arid, semiarid and dry sub-humid regions (precipitation/potential evapotranspiration or P/ETP 0.05 to 0.65) and leads to a persistent decline ... -
The incidence of child labour in Africa with empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia
(2000-10)There has been a growing interest in the subject of child labour in Africa in recent years among academics, professionals and the media primarily for two reasons: Firstly, because the number of children affected is growing, ... -
On the economics of volunteering
(2000-08)The past decade has witnessed a surge in private, volunteer activity across the globe, generating an optimistic belief in the potential of “civil society” in “filling” the niches where both the state and markets have failed. ... -
Institutional reform of economic legislation in Egypt
(2000-08)The relationship between institutional and economic reform has dominated the field of development research since the 1990s. However, there is unclarity on the significance of reform of institutions of legislation and ... -
Economic liberalisation and employment in South Asia
(2000-08)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), ... -
Could tighter prudential regulation have saved Thailand's banks?
(2000-07)The improvement of prudential regulation in the crisis-ridden Asian countries is suggested by international organizations as a major lesson to be implemented. The effect from tighter regulation can be estimated by simulating ... -
The access and welfare impacts of telecommunications technology in Peru
(2000-06)This paper attempts to assess three main issues on Peruvian telecommunications technology: what are the main variables that explain the demand for access to telephone services; how important is access to telephone services ... -
An international nutrition index: Successes and failures in addressing hunger and malnutrition
(2000-04)At international conferences in the 90s, the international community reconfirmed the elimination of hunger and malnutrition as high priority. The Nutrition Index (NI) presented in this paper has been designed to assess the ... -
A theory of migration as a response to relative deprivation
(2000-03)We model migration as a response to relative deprivation. We present a specific configuration of incomes in which the process of migration in response to relative deprivation reaches a steady state. However, for the general ... -
Zukunft der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
(2000-03)Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) sollte als die Gesamtheit der zwischen- und innerstaatlichen Allokation (finanzielle, technologische, wissensbezogene) verstanden werden, die auf die Verbesserung der heutigen und zukünftigen ... -
Insights from physics into development processes: Are fat tails interesting for development research?
(2000-03)This article explores the question of whether concepts and methods used in non-equilibrium statistical physics, already successfully applied in biology, epidemeology and finances, can also be a useful tool for research ... -
Dynasties and destiny: On the roles of altruism and impatience in the evolution of consumption and bequests
(2001-12)We study the joint role of altruism and impatience, and the impact of evolution in the formation of long-term time preferences and in the determination of optimal consumption and optimal bequests. We show how the consumption ... -
Allocation of EU aid towards ACP-countries
(2000-03)In the renegotiations of the Lomé Convention (1998-2000) not only trade issues but also the aid relationship were under review. A major challenge is induced by the EU's proposal of shifting the aid allocation from needs ... -
Volta basin water balance
(2000-03)Water balances pertaining to the flux of water through the Volta River Basin and a black box model of the rainfall/runoff relationship for estimating the river flows into the Akosombo Reservoir are presented. As the water ... -
Decentralization and public sector delivery of health and education services: The Indian experience
(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
(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 ...
