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Human rights impact assessments as a new tool for development policy?
Baxewanos, Fabiane; Raza, Werner - 2013
Development policy affects human rights in manifold ways. For example, trade agreements can have an adverse impact on the rights to health or food by making essential medicines or goods less accessible or available. Or large-scale investment projects influence indigenous rights when they entail...
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Revisiting the global food architecture: Lessons from the 2008 food crisis
Christiaensen, Luc - 2009
market functioning and policymaking must be addressed. First, governments must reinvest in agriculture with a focus on public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323525
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Climate change impacts on global agriculture
Calzadilla, Alvaro; Rehdanz, Katrin; Betts, Richard; … - 2010
global agriculture. The analysis uses the new version of the GTAP-W model, which distinguishes between rainfed and irrigated … agriculture and implements water as an explicit factor of production for irrigated agriculture. The results suggest that a partial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277985
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Assessing Climate Change Impacts: Agriculture
Bosello, Francesco; Zhang, Jian - 2005
. The main results of the study point out on the one hand the limited influence of climate change on world food supply and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312261
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Biogeographical conditions, the transition to agriculture and long-run growth
Bleaney, Michael; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2008
We use new data on the timing of the transition to agriculture, developed by Putterman and Trainor (2006), to test the …). The factors conducive to high per capita incomes today are good institutions, an early transition to agriculture, access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288540
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Cluster policy as a development strategy: Case studies from the Middle East and North Africa
Benner, Maximilian - 2012
Cluster policy has become a method of choice for policymakers in many countries. Promoting strong localized industries is an appealing perspective for practitioners, as it can be seen as a way to anchor economic activity in regions in an era of globalization. If cluster policy is successful, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294480
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Task force: development policy and strategies in East Asia by the case of chinese environment policy
Heberer, Thomas (contributor);  … - 2009
This report approaches current domains of development and tension within China. It was elaborated by students in the frame of a 'Task Force Seminar' in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). It addresses the issues of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302286
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The Evolution of Development Thinking: Theory and Policy
Ranis, Gustav - 2004
where we will, or should be, heading in the effort to achieve the third world's basic development objectives. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369187
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Die Sachs-Easterly-Kontroverse: "Dissent on Development" revisited
Hielscher, Stefan - 2008
zunehmenden Interdependenzen, so dass die Entwicklungspolitik konzeptionell auf einem sicheren Fundament sozialstruktureller … beitragen, die Anreizstrukturen in der Entwicklungspolitik und der Entwicklungspraxis zu reformieren – im Interesse der Armen …
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Kooperation statt Hilfe: Zur Theorie der Entwicklungspolitik aus ordonomischer Sicht
Hielscher, Stefan - 2012
Dieser Beitrag beinhaltet eine modifizierte Fassung des Vortrags, der anlässlich der Verteidigung der Dissertation des Autors an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg am 18. November 2010 gehalten wurde. Das Diskussionspapier vermittelt einen thesenhaften Überblick über den...
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