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    <title>EconStor Community: Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE), Ruhr University Bochum</title>
    <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/183513</link>
    <description>Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE), Ruhr University Bochum</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:56:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Corruption and social rights accountability</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202093</link>
      <description>Title: Corruption and social rights accountability
Authors: Engelbert, Annika; Kaltenborn, Markus
Abstract: Transnational criminal law treaties traditionally dominate the international anticorruption regime; yet, corruption has not considerably decreased since their coming into force. It therefore seems appropriate to broaden the legal perspective: Corruption as a threat to welfare, safety, and physical integrity of the individual can be conceptualized as a human rights violation. This paper argues that it is possible indeed to establish causal links between the misallocation of public funds, including budget distortions and underfunding of anti-corruption institutions, and a structural infringement of social human rights. We present several human rights instruments suitable to combat corruption with regard to social rights realization. In particular, we assess the capacity of public interest litigation, as well as related contextual legal and political conditions for the case of Kenya. With its new Bill of Rights, Kenya has great potential to spearhead a progressive impact litigation strategy targeting corruption-induced social rights infringements.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2019-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Interface Approach</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/183566</link>
      <description>Title: The Interface Approach
Authors: Gerharz, Eva
Abstract: The interface approach is especially well suited to understanding the specific conditions and processes in development cooperation. Therefore, it has been mainly adopted in development studies, particularly in the field of development sociology. In order to gain an understanding of this approach and the theories behind it, the first part of this paper introduces the essential theoretical premises and their methodological significance. In the second part, a case from the author's fieldwork in Northern Sri Lanka is used to illustrate how a research design can be developed using the interface approach, and how one might analyse the collected data.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2018-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Determining Minimum Compensation for Lost Farmland: a theory-based impact evaluation of a land grab in Sierra Leone</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/183565</link>
      <description>Title: Determining Minimum Compensation for Lost Farmland: a theory-based impact evaluation of a land grab in Sierra Leone
Authors: Hansen, Marc; Conteh, Mohamed; Shakya, Martina; Löwenstein, Wilhelm|splo375
Abstract: The land grabbing issue has produced a plethora of debates ranging from ethical conduct of land grabbing agents, specifically concerning displacement, to evidence for and against positive externalities such as technological spill-overs and construction of infrastructure. An underexplored topic is the valuation of agricultural land and the compensatory payments made to land users, distinct from land owners, for the loss of their source of food security. This paper establishes a theoretical framework for the valuation of agricultural land from the perspective of land users, based on a household production function. For the analysis data were collected in a survey of 203 households in the land grab affected area in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone during 2013. It shows that, for the case of a specific land grab in Sierra Leone, the compensatory payments received by land users are far below the value of the land lost and as such the lease income is unable to allow these households to maintain their previously, already tenuous, levels of food security. A clear distinction is made between land owners and even more vulnerable non-landowning land users who depend on the agricultural land for their food security and livelihoods. The household level analysis showed that in addition to the level of compensation received by the average household being insufficient to maintain a priori welfare levels the distribution of compensation significantly favoured the wealthier households. Since the value of the land and the rent distribution were set in local positive law the project could correctly call itself fully compliant but the land grab still resulted in significant welfare losses. The methodology implemented by this ex-post study can identically be applied to an ex-ante scenario allowing land grabbing agents to define a minimum compensatory payment to land users not based on asymmetrical bargaining power but on actual land value to this vulnerable section of the local population.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2016-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Do the Poor Benefit from Corporate Social Responsibility? A Theory-Based Impact Evaluation of Six Community-Based Water Projects in Sri Lanka</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/183564</link>
      <description>Title: Do the Poor Benefit from Corporate Social Responsibility? A Theory-Based Impact Evaluation of Six Community-Based Water Projects in Sri Lanka
Authors: Löwenstein, Wilhelm|splo375; Shakya, Martina; Hansen, Marc; Gorkhali, Sanjay
Abstract: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can work as an effective means towards minimising business risk and maintaining amicable relationships with diverse groups of stakeholders. While many studies have examined the impacts of CSR on firm value and customer perceptions, little is known about the effects of a philanthropic engagement of the private sector on external stakeholder groups, such as local communities in developing countries. This paper examines welfare effects of six community-based water supply projects that were supported by a thermal power plant in Sri Lanka as part of the company's CSR strategy. The implications of these CSR activities are analysed from the perspective of the project beneficiaries, the majority of them poor smallholder farmers. Household production and labour income functions are estimated from survey data to analyse two pathways through which the water projects affect the beneficiaries' lives. First, the households get individual access to water that allows for the irrigation of home gardens, increases land productivity and changes households' farm output and income (irrigation channel). Second, the projects have an indirect effect on households' income via a time channel, i.e. the effect that due to the individual water access the households save time as there is no need any more to fetch water from far away water bodies or wells. This allows for a reallocation of labour time for other productive income-generating activities. Despite the considerable costs that households have to bear for an individual water connection, the study finds a systematic, positive net income effect of the projects on the beneficiaries via both the irrigation and the time channel. Qualitative evidence supports these findings and also reveals additional positive, non-monetarised project impacts. As the water projects would not have been realised without the subsidiary financial support of the power plant, it is concluded that the company's CSR engagement is increasing the welfare of the beneficiary communities.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2015-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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