Browsing Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften by Advisor & Referee "Qaim, Matin Prof. Dr."
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Nutrition and Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Evaluation of Three Micronutrient Interventions
(2017-07-12)Adequate nutrition constitutes a cornerstone of human capital formation. Only a well-nourished and healthy child will attend school regularly, react properly to the stimuli from its environment and learn sufficiently to ... -
The Challenges of Transition: Essays on Nutrition and Climate Change
(2016-07-08)Transition processes are a concomitant feature of economic growth. The transition that many countries (especially developing and transition countries) undergo when they experience economic growth has manifold ...
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Contractual Relationships in the Absence of Formal Enforcement: Experimental Evidence from Germany and Kenya
(2015-07-31)This dissertation consists of three experimental studies that aim at contributing to a better understanding of behavior within contractual relationships—in particular, if information asymmetries, incentive issues and a ... -
The complementarities of child health achievements in developing countries
(2015-03-12)This dissertation, which is grounded on a human-centred and multidimensional vision of development, aims at analyzing empirically the correlates and determinants of child health in low and middle income countries. The ... -
Large–scale land acquisitions in sub–Saharan Africa
(2015-03-10)This dissertation contributes to the literature by providing evidence on the rising global phenomenon of investments in land through in–depth insights obtained from a cross–country study as well as from three case–studies ... -
The Nexus between Agricultural Productivity, Poverty, and Social Services Provision in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Empirical Analysis
(2014-12-19)This dissertation contains three essays at the interface of agricultural and development economics. The motivation for this lies in the fact that various studies have shown the agricultural sector to be the main income ... -
Essays on Food Security and the Nutrition Transition in Developing Countries
(2014-12-19)The nature of food insecurity has been changing in the world. While research on food insecurity in developing countries used to focus on undernourishment (i.e. lack of calorie consumption) and related outcomes, today, many ... -
Essays on Women's Empowerment in Developing Countries
(2014-10-08)In our study, we attempt to discuss women’s empowerment in three different essays. In the first essay, we discuss how access to agriculture market by female farmers in Cameroon could improve their own control over the ... -
Considerations of Efficiency and Distributive Justice in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
(2014-02-18)From the nineteen-eighties onwards, Amartya Sen developed a new welfare theory: the capability approach (Sen, 1979; 1985; 1992; 1999; 2009). Capabilities and functionings, i.e. what persons are actually able to do and be, ...