Asks and answers the question: What are the economic conditions a society must satisfy in order to exist and survive? Focusing on macro factors to understand the problem of poor countries, this book also offers a presentation of economic history in a world perspective, using survival-conditions...

In den letzten zehn Jahren hat das durch Katastrophen verursachte menschliche Leid extrem zugenommen. Der Anteil der humanitären Hilfe an den Ausgaben für die Entwicklungshilfe ist dementsprechend beständig gestiegen. Viele der heutigen Krisen haben aber deutlich gemacht, daß humanitäre...

After having pointed out the diverse uses of the term infrastructure in the literature on the market-economy, the different categories of infrastructure will be described. The argument in this context is that the classification of infrastructure suggested by Jochimsen has proved useful:...