Für die Gestaltung und Umsetzung von Politikmaßnahmen ist es wichtig zu verstehen, was menschliches Verhalten bestimmt. Nur wenn die jeweilige Zielgruppe ein positives Verhalten gegenüber der Maßnahme einnimmt, kann dieses auch erfolgreich umgesetzt werden. Untersuchungen haben gezeigt, dass...

Successful programmes and policies require supportive behaviour from their targeted populations. Understanding what drives human reactions is crucial for the design and implementation of development programmes. Research has shown that people are not rational agents and that providing them with...

The Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) is a data collection system designed to methodically process and integrate local government data for monitoring both micro impacts of macroeconomic shocks and multidimensional poverty (Partnership for Economic Policy 2018). It aims to address existing...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the impact of a growth enhancement support scheme (GESS) on youth development in informal farm entrepreneurship in Nigeria. Its special focus is to investigate the impact of the GESS on rural youths' adoption of new technologies needed...

In Nigeria, Community Based Organisations (CBOs) have been involved in diverse development and poverty reduction programmes in many states. In Oyo State, their involvements have been evident for more than five decades now, a long time enough for their impacts to be readily felt, thus due for...

The Republic of Korea is one of few countries to have gone from recipient of official development assistance (ODA) to joining the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC). The Republic of Korea's transition and graduation from ODA was completed more than 20 years ago, therefore providing an...

Botswana is one of the few upper-middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and aspires to become a high-income country by 2036. According to OECD estimates, Botswana is expected to graduate from the list of official development assistance (ODA) eligible countries by 2030. This report...

Chile's development assistance landscape includes a low dependency on aid flows and fully restored relationships with "developed" countries following its transition to democracy in the early 1990s. Chile has experienced the transition from aid in full, completing this process with its formal...

Mexico is a large upper-middle-income country (UMIC) in the midst of transition from aid, with gross national income per capita of $8,610 in 2017. Despite aid flows falling in the 1990s and stagnating in the early 2000s, they have been rising since 2008 to support the climate change and security...

This report synthesises the experiences of four countries - Botswana, Chile, Mexico and the Republic of Korea - in the transition from aid and graduation from official development assistance (ODA). It presents research on the management of the transition from aid, cooperation with deveopment...

Delivering public goods and services requires identifying the needs of constituents and designing policies and programs to address these needs in the hopes of attaining development. These policy and program interventions should get the appropriate budgetary allocations to be implemented and...

The present paper intends to establish a reciprocity relationship between the modernization and development level of the rural space, as main modernization-development point of the rural household. On the basis of the interdependence relation between rural area modernization and development, the...

This report is the final deliverable of TRUSTEE task 3.3. It present the research protocol, the methodology used and most of results. LEADER is qualified as down-up approach combining EU policy framework and local strategy. The implementation is quite heterogeneous dependend on institutional...

"China is a powerful engine of the global economy and the country's rise is undoubtedly the outcome of its protracted campaign of designing and implementing national development strategies since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. This book reviews the transformation and...

The Role of Agriculture in Kenya's Political Economy in the Era of Transition and Independence -- Western Kenya's Region, People, and the Origins of Population Density -- Chavakali Secondary School: A Place of Learning and Farming -- "Doing Their Part": 4-K Farmers' Clubs -- Friends and Acres:...

Introduction : The State and Rural Development in East Asia -- The Role of Rural Institutions and State Campaigns in Development -- Rural Development in Taiwan, 1950s-1970s -- Rural Development in South Korea, 1950s-1970s -- Rural Development in China, 1980s-2000s -- Conclusion : The Rural...

This book discusses the case for socialism and the models of socialist planning. Through examining different countries, each chapter examines the successes and failures of contrasting socialist policies. The theories and techniques of socialist planning are discussed in relation to the Soviet...

In Nigeria, Community Based Organisations (CBOs) have been involved in diverse development and poverty reduction programmes in many states. In Oyo State, their involvements have been evident for more than five decades now, a long time enough for their impacts to be readily felt, thus due for...

Rural development has as main subject the rural space as a system in which the main components (natural resources, people) interfere and have a specific (economic, social, cultural, political, institutional) behaviour. The rural household is the main actor in the rural space, owner of the main...