Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF): Recent submissions
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Optimal water allocation in the Mekong river basin
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Schooling costs and child labour in rural Pakistan
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
"Development box" and special and differential treatment for food security of developing countries: Potentials, limitations and implementation issues
(2002-05)At the Ministerial Conference in Doha, WTO member countries acknowledged the need to further correct the prevailing restrictions and distortions in agricultural world markets. The Ministerial Declaration of Doha reaffirms ... -
Is the world becoming a more risky place?: Trends in disasters and vulnerability to them
(2002-05)Numerous publications about disasters are implying that disaster vulnerability is growing. The main reasons given for this are growing populations, climate change and increasing poverty. However, maybe the current perception ... -
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 ...
