After an extended process of reform the European Union has introduced direct payments to farmers which are decoupled from production decisions as a central element of its Common Agricultural Policy. They are also referred to as Single Farm Payments. In this paper we analyze the production and...

This paper analyses macroeconomic aspects of exit from aid-dependence. By 'exit from aid', we mean substantial and enduring decline over time in Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The relevant macroeconomic variables are identified by systematically...

Die Organisationen des Systems der Vereinten Nationen (VN) sind etablierte multilaterale Akteure in der Entwicklungs-zusammenarbeit (EZ). Sie setzen weltweit gültige Normen und Standards, verfügen über eine nahezu globale Präsenz und gelten als bevorzugte Partner für viele...

United Nations (UN) development agencies are established multilateral development actors. They set universally valid norms and standards, have a near global presence, and are preferred partners for developing countries. Despite substantial progress, there is still need for improvement and reform...

In the 1990s, the CIS region experienced a painful transformation following the collapse of the USSR and the command economy. For the less developed republics of the former USSR, this process was even more dramatic as they lost subsidies from the Union's budget and some of them suffered...

This volume represents some of the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Research Committee on Development Economics (Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer) of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik) held in Cologne, Germany, in July 2004. The meeting focused on the...

Die globalen Herausforderungen werden die Entwicklungspolitik nachhaltig verändern. Die österreichische Entwicklungspolitik ist darauf institutionell schlecht vorbereitet. Eine politische Aufwertung und die Schaffung einer effizienteren Struktur für eine zukunftsfähige Entwicklungspolitik...