Vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Betriebsform des Shopping-Centers, welches als räumliche Konzentration von Betrieben des Einzelhandels gesehen werden kann. Betrachtet werden dabei ausgewählte Center in Sao Paulo.

Today rural sector reform is a paramount issue in Indonesian development. Yet, different social actorshave different perspectives and stances towards it. Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) inIndonesia have established themselves in pivotal positions in the social, economic and...

In this paper we review as well as contribute to the empirical literature on the impact of landreform on agricultural productivity in India. We find that, overall for all states, land-reform legislation had anegative and significant effect on agricultural productivity. However, this hides...

The well-known inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is usually explained in terms ofdiminishing returns with respect to land and other inputs coupled with various types of market frictions thatprevent the efficient allocation of land across farms. We show that even in the...

The experience of West Bengal under the panchayat system stands in sharp contrast withthat of other states and, together with land reform, it has been credited for playing animportant role in the impressive economic turnaround of the state since the mid 1980s. WestBengal is the first and the...

In der Humangeographie gewinnen die Konzepte zu regionalen Branchenclustern immergrößere Bedeutung. In diesen Konzepten arbeiten Unternehmen aus der gleichen oderähnlichen Wertschöpfungsketten zusammen in einer Region mit identischem sozialem undkulturellem Hintergrund. Aufgrund ihrer...

The development of a decision support approach with regard to agro-environmental pro-grammes is part of a larger research project on agricultural transformation and structural change processes. Research objective are improved communication processes and an enhanced quality of political...

A unique data set on home use of computers and the Internet is used to investigate the tradeoffsbetween physically commuting to a work site and telecommuting from home via computers. Thestudy further investigates whether individuals who work from home receive greatercompensation relative to...

Allen öffentlichen Förderprogrammen zur Verbesse -rung der Breitbandversorgung liegt das Prinzip zuGrunde, dort zu fördern, wo ausreichende Markt -lösungen für den jeweiligen Bedarf bei den gegebenenwirtschaftlichen, infrastrukturellen und topographischenGegebenheiten auch unter...