This volume contains the articles and papers which predominately have been published in international journals or edited volumes in the period from 1979 to 2009. The single articles reflect the main research areas of the editor and his co-authors who were engaged at the Kiel Institute of World...

Governmental policies of subsidizing the economy have become one of the most contentious issues on the international agenda throughout the past years. For a long time, the debate about the rights and wrongs of subsidization has often been conducted in the Federal Republic of Germany as though it...

In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland werden weit mehr Subventionen vergeben, als die offizielle Berichterstattung erkennen läßt. Sie haben im Jahr 1985 eine Höhe von rund 120 Mrd. DM erreicht und sich damit in den vergangenen zehn Jahren verdoppelt. Trotz aller Bekenntnisse zum Abbau haben die...