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...

[This document was requested by the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control. It designated Mr Brian Hayes (MEP) to follow the study.] - The recent European crisis has put the issue of government efficiency high on national policy agendas. Policy measures that result in a reduction...

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...

Although primary industries are important to developing countries, they have been largely unable to contribute to rapid growth. Systematically strengthening the development of local technology-intensive suppliers (t-suppliers), however, may contribute to both reinforcing the industrial base and...

This is a study of 42 developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America in which we first examine the impact of trade liberalisation on economic growth, investment share of GDP, openness, trade balance and current accounts (as percentages of GDP). Both panel data and country by country data...

This paper develops a model of the WTO dispute settlement process (DSP) to study the recent proposal by legal scholars to subsidize litigation costs. The high cost of litigation, so the argument, is a major obstacle for developing countries to using the DSP to enforce developed countries?...

Worker remittances constitute an increasingly important mechanism for the transfer of resources from developed to developing countries, and remittances are the second-largest source, behind foreign direct investment, of external funding for developing countries. Yet, literature on worker...

The Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) aims at the assessment of people's willingness to pay (WTP) for a public project. The sum of the individual WTPs is interpreted as the social benefits of the project under consideration and compared to the project costs. If the benefits exceed the costs the...