In MENA, household food insecurity, which is closely related to poverty and undernourishment, is most severe in rural areas and concentrated within Iraq, Sudan, and Yemen. 25% of the MENA population may be poor and 7% undernourished. The key to increased national and household-level food...

This paper argues that the concept of socio-economic development needs to be redefined for the purpose of effective democracy promotion. By including aspects from human development theory, advocates of revised modernisation theory state that mass values in a society shift towards a preferance...

Die DDR übernimmt ab 1.Juli 1990 die Grundelemente des westdeutschen Sozialsystems. Es werden dann aber eigenständige Systeme der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung und der Arbeitslosenversicherung aufgebaut. Die Verfasser stellen die Schwierigkeiten des Zusammenwirkens von Sozialsystem und...

Includes a review of urbanization trends since the 1960s.