Excerpt from the introduction The overarching objective of this study is to review existing research, both theoretical and empirical, on the impact of refugees on residents’ livelihoods in host communities in developing countries. We particularly…
The COVID-19 pandemic has infected over 25 million people and resulted in more than 800,000 deaths as of September 2020. The virulence and human cost of this and other epidemics in the past few decades have re-ignited policy discussions around…
Global foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased substantially over the past decades and so has FDI in Africa. However, still only 3 percent of global FDI stocks and 1 percent of German FDI is located in Africa. There are several policy…
Worldwide, and especially in developing countries, young people remain particularly disadvantaged in labor markets. That is why helping young people to enter the labor market continues to be a major policy priority for governments and international…
Special Economic Zones (SEZs), or free zones, are an increasingly popular policy instrument aimed at attracting investment and inducing structural change. They are geographically defined areas designated by the government where regulations are…
The persisting inequalities women face while entering the labor market, make female economic empowerment a major policy objective for international organisations, local governments, non-profit organisations, researchers, and private companies.…
Similar policies, if applied to different contexts, can have many different effects and a policy that has proven successful in one context does not automatically have to be as successful in another context. This displays the problem of the limited…
In developing countries, where agriculture is a major economic sector, value-chain development is expected to contribute to high-level outcomes. In this paper, we aim at quantitatively assessing the value-chains which will be the most effective at…
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