• Forests in the context of climate change in Kazakhstan 

  Sehring, Jenniver (2012)

  Being a country with very low forest cover, forests are usually not in the focus of research and strategies of natural resource management in Kazakhstan. Nevertheless, forests play an important ecological role, especially ...

• Climate risk management in Central Asian agriculture : A situation analysis 

  Pawlowski, Ira (2012)

  The region of Central Asia, and in particularly the agricultural sector, is extremely vulnerable to climate change risks. The countries have started to develop adaptation strategies and climate risk management strategies, ...

• Robustness of clustering methods for identification of potential falsifications in survey data 

  Storfinger, Nina; Winker, Peter (2011)

  Falsifications of survey data might result in specific statistical properties of the generated data differing from those of the surveyed population. Clustering methods have been proposed to identify potential falsifications ...

• Datenbasierte Indikatoren für potenziell abweichendes Interviewerverhalten 

  Storfinger, Nina; Opper, Marie (2011)

  Die Datenqualität in Umfragedaten kann in vielen Fällen durch abweichendes Verhalten der Interviewer beeinträchtigt sein. Eine Fälschung liegt dann vor, wenn der Interviewer den kompletten Fragebogen oder Teile davon nicht ...

• A literature review of methods to detect fabricated survey data 

  Bredl, Sebastian; Storfinger, Nina; Menold, Natalja (2011)

  This paper reviews literature dealing with the issue of detecting interviewers who falsify survey data. The most reliable method of detecting falsifiers is through face-to-face reinterviewing of survey participants. However, ...

• Determinants of primary school enrollment in Haiti and the Dominican Republic 

  Gönsch, Iris (2011)

  Education is considered an important means of alleviating poverty and of improving an individual´s job and earnings prospects. Nevertheless, in Haiti and the Dominican Republic school enrollment is far from complete and ...

• Education for all and for life? : An introduction into primary school education in Senegal 

  Gönsch, Iris; Graef, Steffen (2011)

  Generally, school participation in Senegal has achieved a lot of progress in recent years. However, several problems remain to be tackled for further improvement. Still, too many children never attend a school. An even ...

• The EU strategy for Central Asia and Kyrgyzstan foreign policy 

  Momosheva, Nazira (2010)

  Over the last two years the European Union has changed its attitude towards the countries of Central Asia. The EU has strengthened its relationship with the region since the adoption of The EU and Central Asia: Strategy ...

• Different background - similar strategies : recruitment in Tanzanian-African and Tanzanian-Asian companies 

  Egbert, Henrik; Fischer, Gundula; Bredl, Sebastian (2010)

  The literature on enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa provides evidence that there are significant differences between companies run by members of the majority population and those run by members of minorities. Differences ...

• Humanities in transition : liberation of knowledge in Central Asia and the potential role of the European Union 

  Jonboboev, Sunatullo (2010)

  Concluding this article, the importance of the rational discourse in modern classes and local forums in contemporary Central Asia should be mentioned again. The liberation of knowledge should be a permanent part of educational ...

• Protection mechanisms and services for young workers in Central Asia and the European Union 

  Kulakhmetova, Anel (2010)

  The UN Convention on the rights of the child speaks not only about needs but about the rights of children from the moment of a birth. The Convention covers a wide scale of the rights consolidated in three basic categories: - ...

• Changing politics in Central Asia : the case of Kazakhstan 

  Jetpysaeva, Yelena (2010)

  The main reason for blaming the EU for not watching the regional reforms more often is based on the idea that the EU has a chance to stimulate and positively influence developments in Central Asia and Kazakhstan and to ...

• The European Union and Central Asia : challenges and prospects of cooperation 

  Rakhimov, Mirzokhid (2010)

  The partnership of CA and the EU concerning political, economical, energy, transport and educational issues should be continued. The partnership will contribute the maintenance and development of peace, stability, cooperation ...

• Central Asian integration as a way of guaranteeing regional security, economic growth: feasibility and prospects 

  Najmitdinov, Ahadhon (2010)

  Nowadays, CA countries are facing serious challenges. Their industries are slowly recovering from the disruption of supplier-producer ties among former Soviet republics and East European states. The transformation from ...

• When does it hurt? : the exchange rate "pain threshold" for German exports 

  Belke, Ansgar; Goecke, Matthias; Guenther, Martin (2009)

  The paper deals with the impact of the exchange rate on the relationship among German exports and its main determinants. Our main aim has been to identify an exchange rate pain threshold for German exporters. We rely on ...

• Migration, remittances and educational outcomes : the case of Haiti 

  Bredl, Sebastian (2009)

  Using data from three Haitian communities the present paper investigates the effects of migration and remittances on educational outcomes. From a theoretical point of view, remittances can be supposed to have positive ...

• Advertisements or friends? : Formal and informal recruitment methods in Tanzania 

  Egbert, Henrik; Fischer, Gundula; Bredl, Sebastian (2009)

  The findings of our study in Mwanza can be interpreted on two different levels. Firstly, they can be read in the light of actors and managers who take decisions in a specific micro-setting influenced, e.g., by the legal ...

• Grocery retailing in Germany : situation, development and pricing strategies 

  Herrmann, Roland; Möser, Anke; Weber, Sascha (2009)

  Over the last four decades, the German food-retailing sector has been subject to continuous structural change. Most important has been the combination of increasing concentration with rising store size and the growing role ...

• Efficiency wages and negotiated profit-sharing under uncertainty 

  Göcke, Matthias (2009)

  In this contribution a very simple model of profit sharing as an entrepreneurial instrument to create incentive-based productivity effects was presented. If efficiency gains result, a remuneration contract including shared ...

• Wie wirken gemeldete SPS-Maßnahmen? : ein Gravitationsmodell des Rindfleischhandels der EU 

  Kramb, Marc; Herrmann, Roland (2009)

  Mit dem Abkommen über die Regelung zur Anwendung sanitärer und phytosanitärer Handelsmaßnahmen wurde der zunehmenden Bedeutung dieser besonderen Gruppe der Maßnahmen im internationalen Handelsverkehr Rechnung getragen. Mit ...

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