After years of economic decline, conflict, and instability, the Democratic Republic of Congo achieved rapid economic growth in the 2000s along with a reduction in rural consumption poverty. This paper evaluates the extent to which recent growth has been accompanied by improvements in...

A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...

Community-based reverse osmosis (RO) water treatment plants provide an interim solution for producing safe drinking water for the endemic areas of chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) in the rural dry zone of Sri Lanka. RO-treated groundwater diminishes the progression of CKDu;...

Die globale COVID-19 Pandemie rückt nicht nur gesundheitliche und soziale Aspekte in den Fokus, sondern auch die Thematik der Digitalisierung. Universitäten mussten hier schnell (re)agieren und ihre Anpassungsfähigkeit unter Beweis stellen: So wurde innerhalb kürzester Zeit der...

Ein funktionierendes Gemeinwesen, individuelle Teilhabe und die Bewältigung von Krisen sind ohne die erfolgreiche Erbringung von Dienstleistungen in kritischen Bereichen nicht denkbar. Das GenDis-Projekt („Gesellschaftlich notwendige Dienstleistungen sicherstellen: Ist Arbeit am Gemeinwohl...

Die Geburt eines Kindes und der Eintritt in die Mutterschaft stellt ein signifikantes Lebensereignis für eine Frau dar, das mit wesentlichen biografischen Umbrüchen einhergehen kann. Mutterschaft beinhaltet einen Prozess des Mutterwerdens. Veränderungen und Herausforderungen im Prozess der...

As the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc along Global Value Systems (GVSs) and India's domestic economic crisis deepened, the already struggling Indian Automotive sector incurred huge losses owing to both demand and supply side factors. In fact, the sector has been under significant strain over...

This paper studies the consequences of the buildup of a new economic sector—the Norwegian petroleum industry—on investment in human capital. We assess both short-term and long-term effects for a broad set of educational margins, by comparing individuals in regions exposed to the new sector...

This research analyzes the academic continuity applied from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (DHuCS) of the National University of La Matanza, due to the implementation of mandatory isolation in the context of the COVID - 19 pandemic. The virtualization of the subject History of...

This paper investigates whether trade facilitation measures benefit the poor and microenterprises in border provinces. It also explores the role of microfinance in supporting the utilization of the trade facilitation initiatives. The role of microfinance in this context is to complement trade...