This thesis addresses 3 different aspects of food and poverty related problems in developing countries. The first essay presents a new operational concept of transaction costs that firstly allows assessing the magnitude and secondly recognizing the non homogeneity of food products. This is...

In this thesis, so far insufficiently considered characteristics of long-run equilibriums in food markets are investigated. For this purpose, multivariate time series methodologies, which were developed for the estimation of long-run relationships by allowing for causality and convergence, are...

The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union (CAP) has a long tradition. After World War II, agricultural and food production in Europe was substantially weakened and unable to provide sufficient food for the domestic population. The CAP emerged from this situation, with the objectives...

Die Abschaffung von Kinderarbeit kann die Entwicklung von Humankapital fördern und ein Mittel für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung der betroffenen Länder darstellen. Kinderarbeit hat jedoch trotz einer deutlichen Verringerung der Armut in Subsahara-Afrika Bestand. Diese Arbeit beantwortet...