In the paper it is inquired how Sudanese women use the financial institutions in order toorganise their lives between market, household, and the community. The results arebased on interviews and observations done in two villages in the surroundings ofOmdurman (Al Gharaza and Sanahir), displaced...

Urban agriculture is a very important activity of refugees although it has not been in the focusof research as today. This research was done in the region of greater Khartoum in the Sudanwhich was the destination of migration of 5 million people in the last 25 years coming incause of...

This research is the outcome of fieldwork undertaken between November 2002 and 2003 inAl Gharaza village part of Khartoum State - the Sudan capital.The study focuses on identifying how spaces and times are interrelated and engendered. Theforces that impact the creation of boundaries or those...

The economic, political and climatic conditions in which farmers around the world have tomake their production and investment decisions are changing dramatically. This studyanalyses the driving forces of changes in agricultural world markets and their implications forEuropean Union agriculture...

In this paper we price a precipitation option based on empirical weather data from Germanyusing different pricing methods, among them the burn analysis, index value simulation anddaily simulation. For that purpose we develop a daily precipitation model. Moreover, a decorrelationanalysis is...

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

Spätestens seit Erscheinen des viel zitierten Buches „Investment under Uncertainty“ von Dixitund Pindyck (1994) erfährt die neue Investitionstheorie (synonym: Realoptionstheorie) großeAufmerksamkeit. Neben theoretischen Weiterentwicklungen und Verfeinerungen wird dieRealoptionstheorie in...

The Africa Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries have benefited from unilateral preferential access to EU markets under various trade agreements. However, since agricultural trade is increasingly determined by food safety and quality standards, one of the main concerns of ACP countries is their...

Fruit and vegetable sectors are principally seen as sectors where small producers are able to participate due to their low demand on land and their high labor requirements. However, the concerns exists that small producers' participation in the international fruit and vegetable trade could be...

Ökologie und Klimaschutz sind in aller Munde. Die politischen Parteien in Deutschland und anderswo sind sich weitgehend einig. Die Marktwirtschaft soll "ökologisch" sein. Für Ökonomen ist dies Problem zumindest theoretisch ziemlich trivial. Die Emission von Klimagasen ist eine negative...