Durch die tagespolitische Diskussion um einen "Umbau des Sozialstaates" werden grundlegende Fragen der Sozialpolitiklehre vernachlässigt. Der Autor versucht daher in der vorliegenden Arbeit eine Brücke zwischen praktischen Gestaltungsproblemen und der Grundlagenforschung zu schlagen....

In areas afflicted by civil conflict, development projects can potentially serve an important counterinsurgency function by redressing grievances of marginalized groups and reducing violence. Using a large-scale randomized field experiment in Afghanistan, this paper explores whether the...

Providing access to electricity is widely considered as a precondition for socio-economic development in rural areas of developing countries. While electrification interventions are often expected to reduce poverty through productive uses for income generating purposes, the reality in rural...