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Indien: Zur jüngsten politischen Entwicklung
Der Autor zeichnet in diesem Beitrag, der zuerst 1975 in der Zeitschrift "Blätter des iz3w" erschien, die Entwicklungen in Indien nach, die dann im Juni 1975 zur Ausrufung des nationalen Notstandes im Auftrag von Indira Gandhi führten. Zuvor war die damalige indische Premierministerin wegen illegale...
Indien unter der Gandhi-Diktatur (Fortsetzung)
Dieser Beitrag ist die Fortsetzung eines Artikels, der sich mit der politischen Situation in Indien während des Nostand-Regimes beschäftigt. Er erschien zuerst 1976 in der Zeitschrift "Blätter des iz3w" und zieht Bilanz nach einem Jahr des Notstandregimes von Indira Gandhi in Indien. Darin kommt der...
Indien unter der Gandhi-Diktatur: Bilanz des ersten Jahres
Der Aufsatz, der zuerst 1976 in der Zeitschrift "Blätter des iz3w" erschienen ist, zieht Bilanz nach einem Jahr des Notstandregimes von Indira Gandhi in Indien. Darin kommt der Autor zum Schluss, dass sich die innenpolitische Lage in Indien noch immer durch Unterdrückung der Opposition und Pressezen...
Bücher aus Indien: Soziale Probleme im politischen Kontext
Diese Sammelrezension erschien zuerst 2000 in der Zeitschrift "KAS-Auslandsinformationen". Darin werden insgesamt 12 Bücher besprochen, die sich mit sozialen Problemen in Indien auseinandersetzen. Zugleich werden die daran beschriebenen Problematiken im Kontext von Politik und Gesellschaft analysier...
Christen in Indien: Von der "Modell-Minorität" zum neuen Sündenbock
Dieser Aufsatz erschien zuerst 1999 in der Zeitschrift "KAS-Auslandsinformationen" und beschäftigt sich mit den gewalttätigen Übergriffen gegen Christen und christliche Einrichtungen in Indien. Diese haben zwar auch weltweit, vor allem aber in Indien selber sehr viel Beachtung gefunden. "Christ sein...
In der Zeit vom 1. bis 10. März 1985 nahmen 35 Personen aus Indien und Deutschland an einem Exposure-Programm teil, welches von der Deutsche Kommission Justitia et Pax in enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Indian Social Institute in New Delhi organisiert wurde. Der Bericht unternimmt den Versuch, Ausgangs...
Indiens Nukleardoktrin: Auf der Suche nach strategischer Autonomie
Der Aufsatz, der zuerst 1999 in den KAS-Auslandsinformationen erschien, befasst sich mit der im der im August 1999 bekannt gewordenen indischen Nukleardoktrin. Hauptprämisse darin ist, dass die strategischen Interessen Indiens angesichts der Nichtexistenz globaler atomarer Abrüstung eine effektive, ...
The process of creating a nation-wide pool system for transport packaging - from vision to decision
After several years of disussions, tests, investigations and additional tests, the suppliers and retailers within the Swedish business sector for food and commodities formed a jointly owned, non-profit company in 1997, which subsequently started in physical operations in 2000. This company, Svenska ...
The impact of school lunches on school enrolment: Evidence from an exogenous policy change in India
Education is thought to be central to economic development. Yet, relatively little is known about how developing countries might advance school participation. In November, 2001 the Indian Supreme Court issued a remarkable interim order directing errant Indian states to other children in government p...
We analyze the effects of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami on credit demand in South India. Combining data from a semi-formal financial intermediary with geophysical data on the Tsunami, we estimate the extent to which the price of credit and the structure of credit flows changed in response to this sh...
SHG Banking in India: The evolution of a rural financial innovation
Linking banks and self-help groups has been a major program of German development cooperation since the mid-1980s. Given the involvement of GTZ in SHG banking and the outreach of that program in India, the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has proposed to study the impact...
Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in the Eastern Himalayas
Nonfarm activities generate on average about 60 percent of rural households? incomes in the eastern Himalayan region of India. This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of nonfarm incomes across rural households. We present and explore an analytical framework th...
John Bessant is Professor of Innovation Management at the School of Management, Cranfield University. He graduated from Aston University with a degree in Chemical Engineering in 1975 and later obtained a PhD for work on innovation within the chemical industry. After a spell in industry he took up fu...
Performance payments: A new strategy to conserve large carnivores in the tropics?
Biodiversity, including wildlife, is globally decreasing at alarming rates. This development has evoked calls for innovative conservation policies. In the present paper we explore the novel conservation performance payment approach which for wildlife-livestock conflicts, so far, has only been implem...
Overlooking mathematical justifications in the Sanskrit tradition: the nuanced case of G. F. Thibaut
How did the narratives of the history of Indian mathematics explain the tradition of mathematical justifications that existed in medieval Sanskrit commentaries? When the German philologer G. F.Thibaut published a translation of a set of Vedic geometrical texts in 1874 and 1875, he established that I...
The damage caused by the dramatic worldwide increase in ‘natural’ disasters is staggering, with the poor in developing countries being most at risk. Disasters make their already precarious living conditions worse, creating a vicious circle of poverty from which they find it hard to escape. To achiev...
Intra-household Gender Disparities in Childrens Medical Care before Death in India
The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the reasons for such excess female mortality in the country. In this study, we argue that intra-household gender-discrimination in receipt of medical attention can be one of the most importa...
Indian investments in Germany: motives, status-quo and trends
Germany, in recent years, has advanced to a major focal point for Indian multinational enterprises (MNEs). Between 2000 and 2007, 84 greenfield Indian investments in Germany were monitored. Additionally, Indian MNEs were involved in at least 55 mergers & acquisitions (M&A) deals in Germany between 2...
Indian firms in Germany : recent FDI trends & critical success factors
With 190 subsidiaries and 23 600 employees on their payrolls as of August 2010, Indian companies have been at the forefront of emerging market investors in Germany. This article provides an update on trends of Indian FDI in Germany and examines some critical success factors responsible for the perfo...
Growth-Trade-Environment Nexus in India
This paper evaluates the environmental impacts of economic growth and trade liberalization in India. The empirical strategy in this paper is to estimate the scale, technique and trade-induced composition effects of trade liberalization on pollution. We collect data across major industrial states of ...
Firm heterogeneity and choice of ownership structure : an empirical analysis of German FDI in India
We contribute to the nascent literature on the heterogeneity of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the relevance of firm characteristics for analyzing the determinants of outward foreign direct investment (FDI). The focus is on the role of firm-level heterogeneity when MNEs decide on the share of ...
Festschrift zum 50-jährigen Bestehen der Deutsch-Indischen Gesellschaft 1953-2003
Anlässlich ihres 50-jährigen Bestehens hat die Deutsch-Indische Gesellschaft eine Festschrift herausgegeben, in der in verschiedenen Aufsätzen die Entstehung und Entwicklung dieser Institutionen zwischen 1953 und 2003 nachgezeichnet wird. Weitere Abschnitte des Sammelbandes beschäftigen sich mit den...
The paper investigates the role of firm-level productivity and industry-level R&D for MNEs' choice of undertaking FDI, and the share of ownership in foreign affiliates. Two firm-specific datasets on German MNEs with varying equity stakes in Indian affiliates are used to account for the two-step deci...
Cross-cultural study on decision making of German and Indian university students
The dissertation consists of an introduction and three empirical articles. The introduction gives the theoretical background, integrates the three articles, and elaborates on future research questions. The first article investigates the important decision in the lives of German and Indian university...
Cross-cultural study on decision making of German and Indian university students
The dissertation consists of an introduction and three empirical articles. The introduction gives the theoretical background, integrates the three articles, and elaborates on future research questions. The first article investigates the important decision in the lives of German and Indian university...
Cross-cultural study on decision making of German and Indian university students
The dissertation consists of an introduction and three empirical articles. The introduction gives the theoretical background, integrates the three articles, and elaborates on future research questions. The first article investigates the important decision in the lives of German and Indian university...
This study analyses five educational projects in India that are supported by German Agro Action (GAA) and the European Union (EU) and are executed on the ground by Indian NGOs. Located in different geographical parts of India, the projects follow different ideological and pedagogical approaches. The...
ASEAN and Strategic Rivalry among the Great Powers in Asia
This paper looks at ASEAN’s role in the context of the three main bilateral relations among the great powers in Asia: China-US, China-Japan, and China-India. The authors argue that although ASEAN’s influence is limited in terms of geographical reach and its impact on actual security issues, Southeas...
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