Diese Ausgabe der Publikation "Österreichische Entwicklungspolitik" widmet sich dem Schwerpunktthema "Staat & Entwicklung". In der Broschüre thematisieren verschiedene AutorInnen aus verschiedenen Perspektiven und Disziplinen die Frage nach der Rolle des Staates als Akteur innerhalb von...

This book provides novel and in-depth perspectives on evaluating environment and sustainability issues in developing countries. Evaluating Environment in International Development focuses on the approaches and experiences of leading international organizations, not-for-profits, and multilateral...

Was ist neu an der 'Neuen Wachstums- und Außenhandelstheorie'? Und was bedeuten diese Neuerungen für die Entwicklungstheorie und -politik? Dies sind die zentralen Fragen, mit denen sich die Autoren in dem vorliegenden Band beschäftigen. Gegeben wird ein Überblick über die anläßlich der...

The embarrassing living conditions of more than one billion poor people in developing countries in combination with the increasing gap of living standards between the poor and the rich, has provided a strong motivation for development policy to change this situation. From its beginning, policy...

This paper discusses how household panel surveys can be informative about the intergenerational transmission of poverty. We consider issues both of data and of the statistical methods that may be applied to those data. Although the data focus is on panel surveys from developed countries, we also...

NGOs play an important role in international development cooperation, but the allocation of NGO aid has rarely been mapped, let alone explained. Based on a representative dataset for 61 important NGOs from various OECD countries, we analyze the targeting of NGO aid across a large number of...

This is an attempt to derive broad, strategic lessons from the diverse experience with economic growth in last fifty years. The paper revolves around two key arguments. One is that neoclassical economic analysis is a lot more flexible than its practitioners in the policy domain have generally...

Bis zum Ende der achtziger Jahre dominierte in der Wachstumstheorie das neoklassische Paradigma, das auf Tinbergen (1942) zurückgeht und vor allem von Solow (1956) weiterentwickelt wurde. Nachdem dieser Ansatz in seiner Entwicklung zu einem gewissen Abschluß gekommen war, wurde die...

Most low income countries are characterised by a high dependence on exports of a small number of agricultural or mineral commodities. In the 1980s, the economic and social performance of these countries has been extremely dismal. Declining per capita incomes, stagnating food production, and an...