Publikationen

In this article, the impacts of oil palm adoption on livelihoods of smallholder farm households are analyzed. The study builds on survey data from Sumatra, Indonesia. Treatment-effects and endogenous switching regression models suggest that smallholder households benefit from oil palm adoption on average. Part of the benefit stems from the fact that oil palm requires less labor than rubber, the main alternative crop. This allows oil palm adopters to allocate more labor to off-farm activities and/or to expand their farmland. For households with a low land-to-labor ratio, rubber is typically a more lucrative crop than oil palm. Depending on various social and institutional factors, households’ access to land, labor, and capital varies, contributing to impact heterogeneity. Welfare gains associated with oil palm are more pronounced among households that have formal land titles and access to additional land to expand their farm size during the process of adoption.

• The article in Agricultural Economics

• Krishna, V., M. Euler, H. Siregar and M. Qaim (2017) Differential Livelihood Impacts of Oil Palm Expansion in Indonesia. In: Agricultural Economics, Vol. 48, Issue 5, 639-653.

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• Orth, M., J. Schmitt, F. Krisch, S. Oltsch (2017), What we Know about the Effectiveness of Budget Support. Evaluation Synthesis, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.

• C. Hartmann and Vorwerk, K. (2017), Developpp.de: Do Development Partnerships with the Private Sector Provide Innovative Solutions for Development Cooperation?, DEval Policy Brief 2/2017, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn

The report at hand presents first results derived from a quantitative impact evaluation of an intervention for enhanced land use planning in the Philippines. The SIMPLE (Sustainable Integrated Management and Planning for Local Government Ecosystems) approach embedded in the Philippine-German cooperation’s “Environment and Rural Development (EnRD)” program was implemented between 2006 and 2015, managed by the Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

• Garcia Schustereder, M., L. Hohfeld, M. Lech and G. Leppert (2016), Donor-Assisted Land-use Planning in the Philippines: Insights from a Multi-Level Survey, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.

This article uses the example of European budget support to show the differences in applying principal–agent and collective action analysis to the donor–recipient relationship and the incentives of European donors. Our results show that the Paris Declaration, while formulating the ‘right’ principles, carries a number of assumptions regarding the (cap)ability of donors to act collectively. This assumption, however, fails to include the political economy of European donors and their own political, institutional and individual incentives that undermined this capability substantially. In other words, the domestic political costs and incentives for European donors to implement the Paris agenda, and in particular aid modalities such as budget support, were not given enough consideration when the aid effectiveness agenda was formulated.

• The article in Development Policy Review

• Koch, S., S. Leiderer, J. Faust and N. Molenaers (2017) The Rise and Demise of European Budget support: Political Economy of Collective European Union Donor Action. In: Development Policy Review, Vol. 35, Issue 4, 455-473.