Beschreibung
The Center for Development Research (ZEF) is an international and
interdisciplinary
academic research institute of the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms
University
of Bonn, Germany. ZEF’s research aims at finding solutions to global
development
issues. The research programs build on the methods and analytical styles
of
the disciplinary research areas and link and integrate knowledge and
capacities
from these different areas. ZEF’s three research departments are:
Political and Cultural Change (ZEF a)
Economic and Technological Change (ZEF b)
Ecology and Natural Resources Management (ZEF c)
The author
Veronika Fuest headed the sub-project „Institutional Analysis“ of the
GLOWA
Volta Project (ZEF) from 2002 to 2004. Presently she is senior researcher
at the
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany.
The editors
Solvay Gerke is Professor of Development Studies and Director, Department
of
Political and Cultural Change, ZEF a.
Hans-Dieter Evers is Professor emeritus of Development Planning and
Development
Policy and Senior Fellow, ZEF a.
