Wissenschaftliche Literatur Economic Development

Timo Menniken

Hydrological Regionalism in the Mekong and the Nile Basin

International Politics Along Transboundary Watercourses

Schriften zur internationalen Politik

As bipolarism was dissolving, in the 1990s, the perceived threat of nuclear war decreased, while the demand for a redefinition, or rather expansion of the term and comprehension of international security has increased. The concept of “ecological vulnerability” is a brainchild of this process and has significantly influenced the post-Cold War security debate.

According to this concept, the security risks deriving from ecologically generated instability were…

Matthias Türck

European Regional Convergence

An Empirical Analysis of the Enlarged European Union

EURO-Wirtschaft – Studien zur ökonomischen Entwicklung Europas

The main focus of this book surrounds the question of whether poor Europan regions catch up to wealthier economies over time. After an overview of the theoretical framework and an extensive literature report we estimate several spatial econometric models. Our analysis is based on ß-convergence models, which are investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional (NUTS-2) data. We find empirical evidence for absolute and conditional ß-convergence. In addition, we…

Robert Chudzik

The Bad Debt Crisis and its Impact on the Banking Reform in Poland

Studienreihe Volkswirtschaften der Welt

The painful process of economic transition has loomed over Poland during the 1990ies. It was launched by abolishing the mechanism of central planning and by a radical liberalisation both in respect to price setting and market entry. It was soon realised that the success of the reform heavily depended on how the process of widespread institutional change would proceed - a new legal order had to be established in order to protect free contractual agreements; privatisation…

Frithjof Kuhnen

Land Tenure in Asia

Access to Land - Access to Income. Changing Issues and Trends

Studienreihe Volkswirtschaften der Welt

The book deals with land tenure - the bundle of rights to land and the resulting social relations within the rural society - in Asia. The first part gives an overview of the state of and trends in land tenure over the last 50 years in the most important regions of Asia. Special emphasis is laid on the relationship of land tenure and social and economicdevelopment and vice versa.

In the second chapter, the same 50 years of land tenure development are examined from…