Die Raumordnung in Bayern ist seit einigen Jahrzehnten Gegenstand wiederholter Reformprozesse. Diese folgen der Logik der Deregulierung, Entbürokratisierung und Kommunalisierung. Der Staat zieht sich einerseits kontinuierlich aus seiner planerischen Verantwortung zurück und überträgt diese...

Der vorliegende Beitrag richtet seinen Blick zum einen auf die Leitbilder und Leitziele der Landesentwicklung in Bayern seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre und zum anderen darauf, welche Auswirkungen die seit 1997 durchgeführten Verwaltungsreformen auf die Strukturen der Landes- und Regionalplanung in...

Recent years have seen a growing interest among donors on taxation in developing countries. This reflects a concern for domestic revenue mobilization to finance public goods and services, as well as recognition of the centrality of taxation for growth and redistribution. The global financial...

This book is an attempt of documenting the results from interdisciplinary cooperation within the second intake of IEE's PhD-school from the viewpoint of the PhD-students. Under the above main heading of the school, students of this second cohort were working on the "Micro-Foundation of...

An important evaluation problem in developing countries is assessing the value and optimal use of environmental resources as inputs into production. This is a key methodology required for many general evaluation approaches, e.g. ensuring the most efficient use of a resource requires...

By means of a descriptive survey of theoretical literature the paper first works out the potential determinants that may drive international migration from developing to developed countries. Furthermore, we look on the relationship between trade, development and migration. Empirical studies...

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...

This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries, taking into account the presence of heterogeneity in the sample of countries and testing for the stability of the estimated elasticities over time. The sample covers the period from 1975 through 2003 for...

The role patents play for innovation is not clear, but patenting activity has increased in the last decades. This article reviews the empirical evidence on traditional and novel roles of patents to assess their impacts on innovation in developing countries. It shows that patents are not likely...

Diese Studie diskutiert mögliche Strategien der Entwicklungsländer bei den Verhandlungen über den internationalen Dienstleistungshandel im Rahmen der WTO-Doha- Entwicklungs-Runde. Die Liberalisierung von Dienstleistungsimporten (u.a. durch ausländische Direktinvestitionen) führt tendenziell...