Wie bewältigen Menschen, die in Dörfern, leben ihren Alltag? Diese Frage steht im Mittelpunkt des Forschungsprojekts „Alltagsbewältigungsstrategien“, das im Rahmen der Verbundstudie „Dörfliche Lebensverhältnisse im Wandel 1952, 1972, 1993, 2012“ durchgeführt wurde. Typisch ist das...

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. The paper makes three contributions to the existing literature. First,...

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. This study examines the factors behind the development of village labor...

This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a somewhat better economic situation than the average...

Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting the scope for excessive rent-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that...