1. Member of Storma SFB 552 -Poverty, gender and vulnerability at regional and intra-household level
Project Leader: Prof. Stephan Klasen.
Co-Leader: Junior-Prof. Michael Grimm.
Participants:
Julian Weisbrod
Jan Priebe
Description:
This project analyses the role of non-agricultural incomes and household and intrahousehold dynamics on the use of forest resources by poor households at the rainforest margins. The project will use panel data and appropriate techniques to understand: the role of non-farm incomes in affecting poverty and resource use; the role of demographic and other shocks on poverty, vulnerability and resource-using coping strategies; the impact of gender dynamics on resource use; and the relationship between the analytical findings and resulting policy issues from the project area and regional and national policies and developments.
Funder:
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Participating Institutions:
Institut Pertanian Bogor (Bogor, Java), Universitas Tadulako (Palu, Sulawesi), University of Kassel
2. Global Justice and Absolute Poverty
Project Leader: Prof. Stephan Klasen, Prof. Elke Mack (University of Erfurt), Prof. Michael Schramm (University of Hohenheim)
Description:
This project investigates the relation between poverty and social justice from the perspective of ethics.
Funder:
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Participating Institutions:
Prof. Dr. Peter Koller, University of Graz, Prof. Thomas Pogge PhD, Columbia University.
3. Differential Survival and the Measurement of Welfare
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4. Member of Collaborative Research Group Vulnerability to Poverty in Thailand and Vietnam (DFG-Project FOR 756)
Project Leader:
University of Göttingen: Prof. Stephan Klasen
University of Hannover: Prof. Hermann Waibel, Prof. Erich Schmidt, Prof. Lukas Menkhoff, Prof. Ludwig Schätzl, Prof. Ingo Liefner
University of Frankfurt: Prof. Rainer Klump.
Description:
The overall objective of the proposed DFG research unit is to advance theoretically and empirically the concept and the methodology of measuring vulnerability to poverty in the economic and political context of emerging economies in Southeast Asia. This objective will be reached through interdisciplinary economic research that is based on the establishment and analysis of a wide-ranging, joint database collected from rural households, firms and regional stakeholders in provinces in Thailand and Vietnam that border their common Indochina neighbors, i.e. Laos and Cambodia. The cross-sectional database will be complemented by panel data and secondary data from household surveys and provincial statistics.
Funder:German Research Foundation (DFG)
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5. Pro Poor Growth: Determinants and a Bolivian Case Study
Project Leader: Prof. Stephan Klasen.
Co-Leader: Dr. Rainer Thiele, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel
Participants:
Melanie Grosse
Julius Spatz
Jann Lay
Description:
This research project analyzes the determinants of pro poor growth in general and in Bolivia in particular and assesses policy options to increase poverty reduction. It is part of a research program (including a set of case studies) coordinated by the World Bank.
Funder:
Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
Participating Institutions:
World Bank, Department for International Development, Agence France de Development, Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit, Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
6. Determinants of Gender Bias in Mortality
Project Leader: Prof. Stephan Klasen.
Participants:
Francesca Lamanna
Pawan Tamvada
Kirsty McNay, University of Oxford
Jane Humphries, University of Oxford
Parvati Trübswetter, University of Munich
Vera Gacs, ifo Institute for Economic Research
Description:
This project assesses the magnitude, regional distribution, and determinants of gender bias in mortality. It has a historical component examining gender bias in mortality in Germany, England, and Ireland, and a contemporary component focusing on South Asia.
7. Determinants of Undernutrition and Child Mortality in Developing Countries
Project Leader: Prof. Stephan Klasen.
Co-Leader: Prof.Ludwig Fahrmeir, Universität München
Participants:
Samson Adebayos, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, University of Southampton
Iris Pigeot, Universität Bremen
Ronja Foraita, Universität Bremen
Angelika Caputo, Universität Freiburg
Description:
This project uses advanced statistical methods (including Bayesian semi-parametric analyses, graphical chain models, and geo-additive models) to analyze the determinants of undernutrition and child mortality in developing countries.
Funder (until 12/2003): DFG, SFB 386: Analyse diskreter Strukturen
8. Gender inequality and growth
Project Leader: Prof. Stephan Klasen.
Co-Leader: Dina Abu-Ghaida, World Bank
Participants:
Francesca Lamanna
Description:
This project assesses the impact of gender inequality in education and employment on economic growth and other development goals such as lower fertility, reduced child mortality, and better education.
Funder: World Bank
9. Determinants of Growth, Inequality, and Well-Being in Transition Countries
Project Leader: Prof. Stephan Klasen.
Co-Leader: Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn, ifo Institut
Participants:
Parvati Trübswetter, Universität München
Carola Grün, University of Witwatersrand, Südafrika
Jutta Albrecht, ifo Institut for Wirtschaftsforschung
Andreas Zeiter, Osteuropa-Institut
Description:
This project examines the empirical determinants of economic growth in transition countries using cross-country and panel regressions. Particular emphasis will be placed on the role of inequality in influencing economic growth. Moreover, the project assesses changes in well-being in transition countries using income, income inequality-adjusted income, and non-income measures.
Funder: Thyssenstiftung
Participating Institutions:
Ifo Institute for economic research Osteuropainstitut
10. Gender, Population, and Poverty in Uganda and Mozambique
Project Leader: Prof. Stephan Klasen.
Participants:
David Lawson, University of Manchester
Silke Woltermann
Key words:
Fertility, population growth, gender inequality, growth, poverty
Description:
These two related projects assess to what extent high population growth and large household sizes are a constraint for growth and poverty reduction in Uganda and Mozambique. It also examines the determinants of high fertility with particular emphasis on the role of gender inequality.
Funder: World Bank, Department for International Development
11. Unemployment, Household, and Poverty Dynamics in South Africa
Project Leader: Prof. Stephan Klasen.
Co-Leader: Ingrid Woolard, Human Science Research Council
Participants:
Murray Leibrandt, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Description:
This research project examines the determinants of unemployment in South Africa and links it to the household formation behavior of individuals. The consequences for poverty and mobility are also analyzed.
Funder: Department for International Development
