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Black-box frontiers and implications for development policy: Theoretical considerations
Sauer, Johannes; Frohberg, Klaus; Hockmann, Heinrich (2004-12)The availability of efficiency estimation software – freely distributed via the internet and relatively easy to use – recently inflated the number of corresponding applications. The resulting efficiency estimates are used ... -
Heuristic considerations on the typology of groups and minorities
Ihne, Hartmut (2004-12)Minority rights play a significant role in development policy, especially within inhomogeneous societies. The justification of minority rights is linked to the justification of human rights. The study develops elements of ... -
Exploiting common resources with capital-intensive technologies: The role of external forces
Engel, Stefanie; López, Ramón (2004-11)This paper focuses on the interactions between local communities having at least some degree of informal claims over natural resources and external agents, particularly firms interested in commercial resource exploitation. ... -
On the demand for grandchildren: Tied transfers and the demonstration effect
Cox, Donald; Stark, Oded (2004-09)It is argued that parents provide help with housing downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such a subsidization emanates from the “demonstration effect:” a child’s propensity to furnish ... -
The problem of court congestion: Evidence from Indian lower courts
Micevska, Maja B.; Hazra, Arnab K. (2004-07)This paper explores the problem of court congestion in Indian lower courts. We use several measures to capture court congestion. These include: caseloads per capita and per judge, the number of cases older than a year per ... -
Modeling the impact of fiscal decentralization on health outcomes: Empirical evidence from India
Asfaw, Abay; Frohberg, Klaus; James, K. S.; Jütting, Johannes (2004-06)Over the last two decades, many countries around the world have been enthusiastically embarking on the path of decentralization. Decentralization has been advocated as a powerful means to improve the provision of health ... -
The impact of rural enterprises on household savings in China
Zhu, Qiuxia (2004-05)In view of development policy, capital formation is crucial for economic growth in a country. Since the reform in 1978, China has enjoyed high saving rates. However, in the late 1990s the saving rates rose to such a high ... -
Do democracy and press freedom reduce corruption?: Evidence from a cross country study
Chowdhury, Shyamal K. (2004-03)This paper calls attention to the instrumental role of democracy and press freedom in combating corruption. As opposed to an autocracy with no or limited press freedom, a free press in a democracy can inform voters about ... -
On the economics of refugee flows
Stark, Oded (2004-02)Although the phenomenon of refugee flows is not devoid of economic connotations, it has so far been investigated primarily by political scientists and sociologists. The analytical tools of economic inquiry have not yet ... -
Joint forest management in India: Assessment of performance and evaluation of impacts
Damodaran, Appukuttannair; Engel, Stefanie (2003-10)This paper is an attempt to critically survey the movement for Joint Forest Management (JFM) in India. The study commences with a description of the policy context in which Joint Forest Management got initiated in India. ... -
A gain with a drain?: Evidence from rural Mexico on the new economics of the brain drain
Boucher, Steve; Stark, Oded; Taylor, J. Edward (2005-10)Evidence is presented in support of the “brain gain” view that the likelihood of migrating to a destination wherein the returns to human capital (schooling) are high creates incentives to acquire human capital in migrant-sending ... -
Impact of alternative soil fertility management options on maize productivity in Malawi's smallholder farming system
Tchale, Hardwick; Sauer, Johannes; Wobst, Peter (2005-08)This paper focuses on smallholder maize production in Malawi by investigating the link between productivity and soil fertility management. Many studies conducted in Malawi indicate declining levels of maize productivity ... -
Debt and growth
López, Ramón; Barbier, Edward B. (2005-03)We generalize endogenous growth models, which often assume a closed-economy, to allow for international borrowing and lending. We incorporate a prominent feature of global financial markets, that the marginal cost of ... -
Village level labor market development in Tanzania: Evidence from spatial econometrics
Mduma, John K.; Wobst, Peter (2005-01)While many empirical studies show that participation in rural labor markets is an important household livelihood strategy, data on Tanzania show that the participation in the rural labor markets is still relatively low. ... -
Status aspirations, wealth inequality, and economic growth
Stark, Oded (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
Debiel, Tobias (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
Abdallah, Jumanne; Sauer, Johannes (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
Worbes, Martin; Botman, Evgeniy; Khamzina, Asia; Tupitsa, Alexander; Martius, Christopher; Lamers, John P. A. (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
Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon (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"
Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon (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” ...