The implementation of activities aimed to mitigate global greenhouse gas emissions is more cost-efficient in developing countries than in most of the industrialized world. A Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is to assure that the interests of all parties implicated in Joint Implementation...

Die vorliegende Arbeit entstand im Rahmen des ELoFoS-Projektes (Efficient Lowering of Food Waste in the Out-of-Home Sector). Ziel dieser Studie war es, neue Erkenntnisse zum Thema Lebensmittelabfall in der Außer-Haus-Verpflegung (AHV) zu generieren sowie die Übertragbarkeit von...

Microfinance continues to play an ever increasing role in approaches topoverty alleviation around the world. Yet despite the attention paid tomicrofinance, the design of credit contracts for small uncollateralized loansremains a bit of a mystery. From its inception, microfinance generated agreat...

We consider an argument that it might be helpful to combat poverty in developing countries indirectly by enlisting firms‘ help (as corporate citizens) in reducing corruption. It turns out that this argument crucially depends on a fair number of presmises, including (a) a common interest of...