Despite extensive research into rural development in sub-Saharan Africa, little is known aboutstructural transformation1 in rural areas on the continent. Zambia was chosen as one of threecase study countries2 in order to ...

Die einzelbetrieblichen Auswirkungen politischer Reformen beschäftigen (Agrar)Ökonomen seit Langem und sind aufgrund der anstehenden Reform der gemeinsamen EU-Agrarpolitik in 2014 hoch aktuell. In diesem Beitrag werden ...

This paper analytically addresses the question, to which degree the market power of OPEC is the key reason for the world market price of crude oil to exceed marginal extraction costs. Describing the various determinants ...

This report describes the SLE study concerning quality infrastructure in three value chains and its potential to contributing to economic growth in southern Kyrgyzstan. In the context of GIZ’s Sustainable Economic ...

In 2016, the Centre for Rural Development – commissioned by Transparency International – developed a Handbook on Land Corruption Risk Mapping, which helps NGOs, governmental institutions, and other actors to systematically ...

Corruption in land governance is a significant problem in many countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. It leads to insecure tenure rights, and thus contributes to non-sustainable use of land, food insecurity, ...

The focus of this paper is on spatial market integration in agricultural land markets. We scrutinize the applicability of the law of one price to land markets and distinguish between absolute and relative versions of this ...