Welche wichtigen Konsequenzen könnte diese Neuorientierung haben für eine eventuelle Weiterführung des schweizerischen Erweiterungsbeitrags?… Read & Download studies
Archives for March 2017
Nachhaltigkeitskonzept für Kakao
Erarbeitung einer Strategie für das SECO im Bereich der Förderung einer nachhaltigen Kakaowirtschaft.
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Nachhaltige Bewirtschaftung von seltenen Mineralien
Erarbeitung einer Strategie für das SECO zur Unterstützung bei der nachhaltigen Bewirtschaftung von seltenen Mineralien, in erster Linie am Beispiel von Gold…. Read & Download studies
The Indian Microfinance Crisis
Reasons for the present micro-finance crisis in India – how much of it is politics and how much is due to a real conflict of interest between going to scale and focus on poverty?… Read & Download studies
Taking the Bus Out of Poverty – Inclusive business
How realistic is the claim that the private sector can reduce poverty by involving poor people in inclusive businesses? Are large multinational corporations really able to re-invent their business models to make them inclusive and serve the poor?… Read & Download studies
Haiti after the Disaster
This weak socio-economic and political situation in Haiti has aggravated the destruction and the losses of the devastating earthquake, which stroke Haiti on the 12th January 2011 with a magnitude of 7.0. Lessons learned from evaluations, consequences and recommendations for the future of Swiss Humanitarian Aid…. Read & Download studies
Food Security – Possibilities within and beyond the WTO-Framework
How to reduce national vulnerability in the food sector – what possibilities exist within the WTO framework and beyond?… Read & Download studies
The Water Footprint – A Case Study of Water Management in Colombia
Is the „water-footprint“ a suitable instrument and can it contribute to a solution for the global water … Read & Download studies
Does development aid have to be stopped?
A calm response to Moyo’s stimulating and provoking theses Formulate an argumentation how SDC or a multilateral organization as a reaction to the stimulating and provoking theses of Dambisa Moyo. Provocative and stimulating; these are the appropriate adjectives to describe the theses presented in Dambisa Moyo’s „Dead Aid – Why Aid Is Not Working and […]
Food security – are higher food prices not an incentive for small farmers?
Rising food prices are often associated with increased hunger – are higher prices not an incentive for farmers to produce more food? What structural framework conditions (social, political) do farmers need to respond to such incentives?… Read & Download studies
Climate Initiatives – Where to go after Copenhagen
How could climate initiatives be financed in developing countries – overview on existing and planned initiatives?
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The Separation of Management and Politics in Water Infrastructure Provision
Discuss different models of role division between private and public actors and mixed forms (corporatisation) for providing infrastructure services (water, energy) at the optimum cost in a sustainable manner…. Read & Download studies
Infrastructure Investment in Development Aid
Investments in infrastructure are again high on the development agenda – is this justified and how can the impact be measured?… Read & Download studies