Nüchtern und sachlich werden hier erschütternde Fakten zusammengetragen, wie sich Grosskonzerne weltweit Land sichern, Ackerland für die Grossproduktion von z.B. Zucker, Palmöl, Reis, Soja. Dabei werden die Einheimischen von ihren Feldern und Wohnsitzen vertrieben, Behausungen brennen,...

Many small middle-income countries (SMICs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have experienced a moderation in growth in recent years. Although factor accumulation, most notably capital deepening, was crucial to the success of many SMICs historically, this growth model appears to have run its course....

We develop a tractable small open-economy model to study the first-round effects of international food price shocks in developing countries. We define first-round effects as changes in headline inflation that, holding core inflation constant, help implement relative price adjustments. The model...

Rapid growth of Islamic banking in developing countries is accompanied with claims about its relative resilience to financial crises as compared to conventional banking. However, little empirical evidence is available to support such claims. Using data from Pakistan, where Islamic and...