In the last decades migration has become an increasingly regarded topic in economic researchin line with the growth of the world’s migrant population which more than doubled in the1960s and 1990s (ILO 2002). Particularly now - in the light of the forthcoming EU Easternenlargement with 10...

The development of a decision support approach with regard to agro-environmental pro-grammes is part of a larger research project on agricultural transformation and structural change processes. Research objective are improved communication processes and an enhanced quality of political...

For quite some time long-only index funds have been suspected of being responsible for price increases in agricultural futures markets. This suspicion has prompted demands to drastically limit long-only index funds' scope of activity. Such demands and their underlying diagnoses, however,...