Seit 1990 veröffentlicht das United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) den sogenannten Human Development Index (HDI), mit dem der Entwicklungsstand eines Landes beschrieben und verglichen werden kann. Zur Beschreibung von Entwicklung stützt sich der HDI auf nur wenige Indikatoren. Dem...

The paper provides a methodology which is suitable for the analysis of the social cost of disease and the benefits and cost of health intervention by integrating public health analysis and economics. The approach developed in the paper is applied to food-borne diarrhea in Rwanda. The results...

For quite some time long-only index funds have been suspected of being responsible for price increases in agricultural futures markets. This suspicion has prompted demands to drastically limit long-only index funds' scope of activity. Such demands and their underlying diagnoses, however,...