Entwicklungspolitik ist Interessenpolitik mit humanitärem Anspruch. Wie und woran soll man sie und ihre unterschiedlich interpretierbaren Ergebnisse messen? Das erste deutschsprachige Handbuch zu Fragen entwicklungspolitischer Evaluierung sucht eine Brücke zwischen Theorie und Praxis zu...

Germany's role in financing economic development in Asia on a sustainable basis leaves much to be desired. Direct investors are still underrepresented in the region. Commercial banks have fueled speculative bubbles. Official development financing does not appear to be based on efficiency-related...

Previous literature largely ignores the heterogeneity of aid channels used by each single donor country. We estimate Tobit models to assess the relative importance of recipient need, recipient merit and self-interest of donors for various channels of official and private German aid across a...