This paper evaluates the impact of prime-age mortality on per-adult equivalent incomes of surviving household members in rural Zambia. The analysis uses difference-in-difference matching techniques and controls for spillover effects by excluding households from the control group if members...

Summary Empirical evidence on the targeting of private aid is largely lacking, even though corporate donors are an increasingly important source of aid. We contribute to closing this gap by performing a case study of Nestlé. The allocation of Nestlé's aid is compared to that of Swiss ODA and...

Summary Using data from Western Kenya, we confirm the existence of a dichotomous non-agricultural sector. The poverty and inequality implications of the differently motivated diversification strategies only partly correspond to expected patterns. While high-return activities are indeed confined...

Zusammenfassung In diesem Artikel wird ein Überblick über neuere Entwicklungen bei empirischen allgemeinen Gleichgewichtsmodellen (EAG) gegeben, wobei walrasianische Modelle weitgehend ohne makroökonomische Aspekte im Vordergrund stehen. Zunächst wird eine typische EAG-Modellstruktur...

This paper provides a model-based assessment of local and global climate change impacts for the case of Yemen, focusing on agricultural production, household incomes and food security. Global climate change is mainly transmitted through rising world food prices. Our simulation results suggest...

Employing a unique data set that covers almost 6000 informal enterprises from six West African urban centres, this article examines the backward and forward linkages of these enterprises to the formal sector. Our descriptive analysis shows that formal backward linkages are much more prevalent...

We assess whether bilateral and multilateral donors of foreign aid specialized and coordinated their activities with other donors as agreed in the Paris Declaration of 2005. We account for donor heterogeneity, varying aid priorities and recipient characteristics in order to isolate changes in...