While criticism of the post-colonial character of the CFA franc zone is intensifying, little research has yet been done on the concrete implications of this currency regime for the monetary policy of the two CFA central banks - and hardly any attention is being paid to these implications in the...

Die normative Begründung dieser an den Verwirklichungschancen orientierten Zielsetzungen erörtert Fabian Scholtes in seinem Beitrag. Er zeigt Unterschiede zur Rawls'schen Konzeption der Grundgüter und anderer Ressourcenansätze auf, die die Individualität des Einzelnen nicht konsequent...

Along with a growing global ethanol market, investment in the production of sugarcane is growing, targeting new production areas also in Africa. This study addresses the question of how production systems and related value-chains can be created and governed so that they include smallholders in a...

This paper aims to contribute to a more comprehensive and balanced analysis of development practice. It does so by raising a neglected issue, in a perspective that explicitly targets the complexity of interaction in development. Based on a review of seminal contributions to Anthropology of...

This paper offers a conceptual framework for analysing and explaining power based on the so-called Capability Approach to development (CA). This framework is intended as a heuristic device for micro-sociological analysis of political interaction in development practice. A systematic connection...