Publications des institutions partenaires
Special Issue: A contextual and dynamic understanding of sustainable urbanisation
By 2030, sixty percent of the world’s population is projected to live in cities. The majority of this growth in urban areas is expected to occur in cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The transition from rural to urban life styles is likely to increase household consumption and will require massive investments in urban infrastructure.
How will society cope with this...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Charter Cities als Antwort auf die Flüchtlingskrise Neue Städte für Migranten
Ob ausländische Arbeitskräfte,Wirtschaftsflüchtlinge oder Vertriebene, ein Hauptmotiv von Migranten, ihre Heimat zu verlassen, ist die Aussicht auf eine bessere Zukunft an einem
neuen Ort. «Charter cities» könnten Alternativen bieten.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 02/12/2015
Closing the gender gap in education: what is the state of gaps in labour force participation for women, wives and mothers?
The educational gender gap has closed or reversed in many countries. But what of gendered labour market inequalities? Using micro-level census data for some 40 countries, the authors examine the labour force participation gap between men and women, the “marriage gap” between married and single women’s participation, and the “motherhood gap” between mothers’ and nonmothers’...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 12/10/2015
Does public sector control reduce variance in school quality?
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality? Whether centralized or localized control produces more equality depends not only on what ‘could’ happen in principle, but also on what does happen in practice. We use the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) database to examine the association between school sector and the variance...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 12/10/2015
Institutions, corporate governance and capital flows
Countries with weaker domestic investor protection hold less diversified international portfolios. An equilibrium business cycle model of North-South capital flow with corporate governance frictions between outside investors and corporate insiders explains this phenomenon through two channels. First,weak governance leads to concentrated ownership in the South because international...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 05/10/2015
Abbau von Hemmnissen für Sanierungen von Liegenschaften institutioneller Investoren (HEMSAN)
Der vorliegende Bericht untersucht, welches die Hemmnisse und Anreize für institutionelle Investoren sind, um Investitionen in energetisch wirksame Erneuerungen von Renditeliegenschaften zu tätigen. Aufgrund einer ersten Analyse anhand von Literatur und Interviews kann davon ausgegangen werden, dass insbesondere eine mangelnde Rendite für die Eigentümer ein Problem sein kann. Dabei...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 30/09/2015
Agricultural Biotechnology and Public Attitudes: An Attempt to Explain the Mismath between Experience and Perception
The main barriers to maximize the benefits and minimize the risk of modern agricultural biotechnology for society and the environment are not technical but regulatory in nature. Preventive regulation of agricultural biotechnology must be understood as a policy response to public rather than scientific concerns about the development and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2015
On the construction of common size, value and momentum factors in international stock markets: A guide with applications
A major obstacle for research in international asset pricing and corporate finance has been a lack of reliable and publicly available data on international common risk factors and portfolios. To address this gap, we provide a step-by-step description of how appropriately screened data from Thomson Reuters Datastream and Thomson Reuters Worldscope can be used to construct high-quality...
Institution partenaire
English / 27/08/2015
The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services : From Regulation to Innovation
This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services. The author combines field research and insights from the multi-stakeholder dialogue at the FAO to analyze the gap between the predictions provided by theory and the corresponding outcomes in practice. In particular, the author challenges the theory behind...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2015
Welche Ethik braucht es für die Durchsetzung der UNO-Nachhaltigkeitsziele?
In den laufenden internationalen Bestrebungen der Vereinten Nationen Nachhaltigkeitsziele für die nächsten 15 Jahre zu definieren (Post-2015, Agenda) wird der Förderung von innovativem Unternehmertum nach wie vor kaum Bedeutung zugemessen. Implizit wird nämlich angenommen, dass der Unternehmer in seinem Streben nach Gewinn primär sich selbst bereichert, und das oftmals auf Kosten der...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/08/2015
The impact of three Mexican nutritional programs: the case of Dif-Puebla
This paper presents an impact evaluation of three nutritional programs implemented in Puebla, Mexico, run by SEDIF, a social assistance institution. The present study uses both a propensity score matching and weighting in order to balance the treatment and the control groups in terms of observable characteristics, and to estimate, later on, the causal effect of the programs on...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
Masked development: exploring the hidden benefits of the Zapatista conflict
In 1994, the Zapatistas took up arms claiming for indigenous people rights in Chiapas, Mexico. After 12 days of civil war, the national government called for dialogue. Nevertheless, since then, it has deployed a "low intensity war" over the self-declared Zapatista Autonomous Communities. At the same time, the Zapatistas started to implement a new set of institutions, which have...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
What drives financial inclusion at the bottom of pyramid?: empirical evidence from microfinance panel data
Microfinance has played a key role in including the poor in financial markets. This paper uses microfinance data to approximate financial inclusion in the poorer segments of the population and proposes a quantile regression approach to study the development of microfinance markets. Our approach accounts for the dynamic and heterogeneous impacts that key drivers may have across...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
Doing well by doing good ?: empirical evidence from microfinance
This paper proposes novel identification techniques to examine the trade-offs that microfinance institutions face between increasing their profits and their social impact. It uses a quantile regression approach to examine how these trade-offs evolve as institutions become more commercialized. The identification strategy is based on an instrumental variable approach, and also...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
Die Mär von 'Oeko' contra 'Agro' : Die Kritiker der industriellen Landwirtschaft führen einen sinnlosen Kampf
Die Unterscheidung gründet auf der Annahme, dass "Agro", also die Agroindustrie, böse und "Öko", für Agrarökologie, gut sei. Dieses Gut-böse-Schema verursacht einen beträchtlichen Kollateralschaden für Gesellschaft und Umwelt, denn eine Zusammenarbeit von staatlichen und nichtstaatlichen Akteuren mit dem Privatsektor für die gemeinsame Erarbeitung von nachhaltigen...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 16/07/2015
Monetary and financial cooperation in East Asia: the state of affairs after the global and European crises
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 08/06/2015
Entrepreneurial rights as human rights : Why economic rights must include the human right to science and the freedom to grow through innovation
The contemporary human rights debate is mostly concerned with the protection of people affected by change that is beyond their control. But what about those who make use of their basic economic rights to facilitate economic and social change? Do these agents of change need protection and, if so, how do their activities relate to the current debate on human rights?
In this book...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2015
Minimum wage law for domestic workers: impact evaluation of the indian experience
We conduct an impact evaluation of the minimum wage legislation for domestic workers that was introduced in four states in India over the period of 2004-2012. Combining the matching and difference-in-difference estimation strategies we estimate both the short-run and long-run impacts of the legislation on real wages and on employment opportunities. Our results show a positive impact...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 22/05/2015
Sustainability and risk Combining Monte Carlo simulation and DCF for Swiss residential buildings
Purpose – This paper aims to identify the relative contribution of sustainability criteria to property value risk. Design/methodology/approach – Adiscounted cash flow (DCF) model is used to assess the effect of a given set of 42 sustainability sub-indicators on property value. The anticipated demand for each sustainability sub-indicator is described by four future states of nature....
Institution partenaire
English / 13/05/2015
Institutional learning in North-South research partnerships
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 12/05/2015
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