India promotes the production of biodiesel from tree-borne oilseeds. This is seen as an option for substituting fossil fuels, reducing CO2 emissions, afforesting wastelands, and generating rural employment. Critics, however, claim that it may lead to food scarcity and seizure of common lands by...

Many coastal resources, including fish stocks and mangrove forests, are “common pool resources”. It is difficult to exclude anyone interested from harvesting them, which typically results in overexploitation. The study compares three incentive schemes that may induce resource users to...

The last two decades have experienced hardly any improvement in the indicators for employment and poverty in the developing countries. Progress can be made only with an economic policy that creates the conditions required for economic growth centered on the private sector and at the same time...

Many traditional aid recipient countries have recently also become donors of development aid. In particular, anchor countries such as China, India, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, and Thailand are increasingly providing aid programs for needier developing countries. In some cases, however, this...

When Alice in Wonderland wonders which way she should take, the Cheshire Cat responds that it depends on where she wants to go! Researchers and policy-makers considering a country’s long-term development path also have to know where they want to go. Typically, they seek to determine the...

Around 2031, Africa’s working-age population will pass the 1-billion threshold. This growing workforce will require decent productive employment. So far, Africa’s economies have largely failed to create stable and well-paid jobs. For any one person working in the formal private sector, 10...

In den letzten beiden Dekaden haben sich die Indikatoren für Beschäftigung und Armut in den Entwicklungsländern kaum verbessert. Fortschritte sind nur mit einer Wirtschaftspolitik zu erreichen, die Voraussetzungen für ein vom privaten Sektor getragenes wirtschaftliches Wachstum schafft und...

Viele traditionelle Empfänger von Entwicklungshilfe engagieren sich neuerdings zugleich als Geber. Insbesondere Ankerländer wie China, Indien, Brasilien, Mexiko, Südafrika und Thailand unternehmen zunehmend eigene Anstrengungen zugunsten ärmerer Entwicklungsländer, wobei dieses in einigen...

Um 2031 wird die erwerbsfähige Bevölkerung Afrikas die Marke von einer Milliarde überschreiten. Diese wachsende Erwerbsbevölkerung braucht menschenwürdige und produktive Arbeitsplätze. Bisher ist es den afrikanischen Volkswirtschaften zumeist nicht gelungen, stabile und gut bezahlte...