This collection draws together contemporary articles on development economics. Ideal for students with little or no background in economics, it covers a range of themes including poverty, foreign aid, agriculture and human capital

Chapter 1: Overview -- Chapter 2: Child Poverty and Deprivation -- Chapter 3: Anthropometric Failure and Undernutrition among Children -- Chapter 4: Child Health Status and Utilization of health care services -- Chapter 5: Holistic Child Development and New Education Policy -- Chapter 6:...

This paper proposes a new tool to assess sustainability and make the concept of sustainable development operational. It considers its multi-dimensional structure combining the information deriving from a selection of relevant sustainability indicators belonging to economic, social and...

Durch den weltweiten Austausch von Waren, Informationen und Kapital entsteht eine neue Qualität von Wechselbeziehungen in Politik, Wirtschaft, Ökologie und Kultur. Die Textil- und Bekleidungsbranche ist besonders gekennzeichnet durch internationale Arbeitsteilung und stellt damit einen Motor...

This paper advocates computable general equilibrium models as a methodological tool that is particularly suitable for measuring the impacts of policy interference on the three dimensions of sustainable development, i.e. environmental quality, economic performance (gross efficiency) and equity....

Ideally a new reform of the EU trade regime for bananas (COMB) should be equipped in a way that it makes a long-term contribution to the realisation of sustainable goals, or at least does not prevent them. From a point of view of sustainable development, a trade restriction measure has to...

In this paper targets, institutions and policy measures for describing and implementing sustainable development are evaluated in terms of their conformity with the economic framework of a market system. Firstly, from the viewpoint of neo-liberal economic thinking as conceived by the German...