Rob Vos
Biographic Data
| ID | 190422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Vos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Vos |
| SIGNATURE | VOS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5034-3568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From promises to action: Analyzing global commitments to tackle hunger and food insecurity
Emerging outsource agricultural services enable farmer adaptation in agrifood value chains: A product cycle perspective
Outsource agricultural service enterprises emerged a century ago in high-income countries and in the past several decades in developing regions. • These services help farmers adapt to international and domestic agrifood value chains in the commoditization and product differentiation phases of the Product Cycle. • We provide grain and horticulture cases in Africa, Asia, Europe. Latin America, and the US. • These services addressed farmers’ shortfa…
Global shocks to fertilizer markets: Impacts on prices, demand and farm profitability
International Collaboration in Times of Pandemics: An Urgent Need for Reforming our Global Financial System
Better, swifter and more responsive international coordination is needed within our global financial system for the containment of the pandemic and its effects. This requires better international tax coordination with a higher global minimum corporate tax, comprehensive coverage of sectors and firms, inclusion of all current tax havens and more generous redistribution of excess profits to developing nations based on user location. There also need…
The processed food revolution in African food systems and the double burden of malnutrition
African consumers have purchased increasing amounts of processed food over the past 50 years. The opportunity cost of time of women and men has increased as more of them work outside the home, driving them to buy processed food and food prepared away from home to save arduous home-processing and preparation labor. In the past several decades, this trend has accelerated with a surge on the supply side of the processing sector and small and medium …
Impacts of Covid‐19 on global poverty, food security, and diets: Insights from global model scenario analysis
This study assesses the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) on poverty, food insecurity, and diets, accounting for the complex links between the crisis and the incomes and living costs of vulnerable households. Key elements are impacts on labor supply, effects of social distancing, shifts in demand from services involving close contact, increases in the cost of logistics in food and other supply chains, and reductions in savings and inv…
Covid-19 risks to global food security
Economic fallout and food supply chain disruptions require attention from policy-makers
Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research
Despite broad agreement in policy circles on the need to reduce food loss and waste (FLW), considerable gaps in information still exist. This paper identifies policy-relevant information gaps, summarizes recent research that tries to fill these gaps and identifies five challenges for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in reducing FLW. The five challenges identified are: (i) measuring and monitoring FLW, (ii) assessing benefits and costs …
Alternative Development Strategies for the Post-2015 Era
The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 exposed systemic failings at the core of economic policy making worldwide. The crisis came on top of several other crises, including skyrocketing and highly volatile world food and energy prices and climate change. This book argues that new policy approaches are needed to address such devastating global development challenges and to avoid the potentially catastrophic consequences to livelihoods worldwide th…
Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
This book assesses feasible financing strategies for policymakers to follow in pursuance of human development, taking as reference the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their achievement by 2015. These strategies are analyzed in the context of broader concerns of economic development with special reference to nine countries from Africa, Asia and the Middle East; that is, how to make macroeconomic policies support more effect…
The construction of ethnic differences in work incapacity risks: Analysing ordering practices of physicians in the Netherlands
Public Policies for Human Development: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America
This book assesses financing strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean, in pursuance of the United Nations' millennium development goals (MDGs) and their achievement in 2015. It looks at how to ma
Illusions and Disillusions with Poverty Reduction Strategies: Growth, Crisis and the MDGs in Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua
Trust in medical decision-making concerning older people: The views of key professionals in the Dutch health care practice
This article deals with the issue of public trust in decisions made by individual physicians, concerning older people, as perceived by various key professionals. While trust is a basic element in our health care service, it is at the same time a difficult phenomenon to conceptualize. This article tries to contribute to a better understanding of what trust in medical practice entails and what are the necessary conditions for a society to put trust…
The Crisis of Globalization as an Opportunity to Create a Fairer World
After having reviewed trends leading to greater international inequality, this article argues for a more stable international financial system allowing developing countries greater participation in international trade combined with full exploitation of their development potential. As emerging economies tap deeper into global supply chains, outsourcing of jobs will influence employment and there is need for a more transparent, coherent and balance…
Large-scale Research and the Goal of Health: Doable Problem Construction in 'New' Nutrition Science
Contemporary science can be characterized by large-scale multi-sited interdisciplinary co-operation. This kind of co-operation is thought necessary for solving complex scientific problems and, by doing so, to reach the social and normative goals of science, for instance, the promotion of public health. In this paper, we present an analysis of a large-scale multi-sited scientific practice questioning the latter assumption. Do the strategies to sol…
Learning from Co-evolution of Policy and Technology. Different PGDs in the Netherlands, Germany and Britain
Approaches in comparative policy analysis have so far focused on the understanding of actors, institutions and their positions in the policy-making process. More recent work attempts to enrich comparative policy analysis by taking the social context and culture into account, in order to do justice to the relevance of policy context for policy content. However, the object or content of policy making has so far largely remained a black box. In this…
Flopping, Klapping and Gene Doping: Dichotomies Between ‘Natural’ and ‘Artificial’ in Elite Sport
The application of genetic technology seems to threaten what is considered natural in elite sport. This paper explores the role of genetic technology in elite sport and questions the significance of dichotomizing between the natural and artificial element. How do shifts in technology affect the attribution of the human element in athletic performance? To explore the attribution of human agency we compare the genetic enhancement of athletes with t…
Judging without criteria? Sickness certification in Dutch disability schemes
The gate-keeping function that physicians perform in determining clients' physical and mental incapacities is widely assumed to be the main reason for the rising numbers of disabled people. The sharp rise in the number of disabled has led many to claim that the disability benefits schemes are untenable. In order to regain public control and to make disabled eligibility procedures more transparent guidelines have been introduced in which medical e…
Mortalidad Infantil, Equidad y Eficiencia: Un Analisis Costo-Efectivo de Alcanzar la Meta del Milenio en Ecuador
Extracting the Lowest-Frequency Words: Pitfalls and Possibilities
In a medical information extraction system, we use common word association techniques to extract side-effect-related terms. Many of these terms have a frequency of less than five. Standard word-association-based applications disregard the lowest-frequency words, and hence disregard useful information. We therefore devised an extraction system for the full word frequency range. This system computes the significance of association by the log-likeli…
External Finance and Adjustment
This book studies the impact of different sources of external finance on growth and development in different country contexts. An important finding of the study is that 'success' or 'failure' in the p
External Finance and Adjustment: Failure and Success in the Developing World
The Philippines: Finance Without Development
Despite more than a decade of adjustment efforts, the Philippine economy continues to experience great difficulty in achieving sustainable growth and development. The archipelago is trailing far behind the economic performance achieved by many of its East Asian neighbours. Long-term structural problems persist and are far from being resolved, in particular the deep-rooted income inequality, poor infrastructure and the oligopolistic structure of m…
The Philippine Economy: East Asia’s Stray Cat
Judging without criteria? Sickness certification in Dutch disability schemes
The gate-keeping function that physicians perform in determining clients' physical and mental incapacities is widely assumed to be the main reason for the rising numbers of disabled people. The sharp rise in the number of disabled has led many to claim that the disability benefits schemes are untenable. In order to regain public control and to make disabled eligibility procedures more transparent guidelines have been introduced in which medical e…
Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research
Despite broad agreement in policy circles on the need to reduce food loss and waste (FLW), considerable gaps in information still exist. This paper identifies policy-relevant information gaps, summarizes recent research that tries to fill these gaps and identifies five challenges for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in reducing FLW. The five challenges identified are: (i) measuring and monitoring FLW, (ii) assessing benefits and costs …
Global shocks to fertilizer markets: Impacts on prices, demand and farm profitability
The construction of ethnic differences in work incapacity risks: Analysing ordering practices of physicians in the Netherlands
Flopping, Klapping and Gene Doping: Dichotomies Between ‘Natural’ and ‘Artificial’ in Elite Sport
The application of genetic technology seems to threaten what is considered natural in elite sport. This paper explores the role of genetic technology in elite sport and questions the significance of dichotomizing between the natural and artificial element. How do shifts in technology affect the attribution of the human element in athletic performance? To explore the attribution of human agency we compare the genetic enhancement of athletes with t…
Large-scale Research and the Goal of Health: Doable Problem Construction in 'New' Nutrition Science
Contemporary science can be characterized by large-scale multi-sited interdisciplinary co-operation. This kind of co-operation is thought necessary for solving complex scientific problems and, by doing so, to reach the social and normative goals of science, for instance, the promotion of public health. In this paper, we present an analysis of a large-scale multi-sited scientific practice questioning the latter assumption. Do the strategies to sol…
Extracting the Lowest-Frequency Words: Pitfalls and Possibilities
In a medical information extraction system, we use common word association techniques to extract side-effect-related terms. Many of these terms have a frequency of less than five. Standard word-association-based applications disregard the lowest-frequency words, and hence disregard useful information. We therefore devised an extraction system for the full word frequency range. This system computes the significance of association by the log-likeli…
The gap between legal rules and practice in advertising non-registered pharmaceutical products
External Dependence, Capital Accumulation, and the Role of the State: South Korea 1960-77
The Crisis of Globalization as an Opportunity to Create a Fairer World
After having reviewed trends leading to greater international inequality, this article argues for a more stable international financial system allowing developing countries greater participation in international trade combined with full exploitation of their development potential. As emerging economies tap deeper into global supply chains, outsourcing of jobs will influence employment and there is need for a more transparent, coherent and balance…
Learning from Co-evolution of Policy and Technology. Different PGDs in the Netherlands, Germany and Britain
Approaches in comparative policy analysis have so far focused on the understanding of actors, institutions and their positions in the policy-making process. More recent work attempts to enrich comparative policy analysis by taking the social context and culture into account, in order to do justice to the relevance of policy context for policy content. However, the object or content of policy making has so far largely remained a black box. In this…
Aid Flows and the International Transfer Problem in a Structuralist North- South Model
Journal Article Aid Flows and the International Transfer Problem in a Structuralist North- South Model Get access Rob Vos Rob Vos Institute of Social Studies, The Hague Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, Issue 417, 1 March 1993, Pages 494–508, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234789 Published: 01 March 1993
External Dependence, Capital Accumulation, and the Role of the State: South Korea 1960-77
Savings, investment and foreign capital flows: Have capital markets become more integrated
How mobile is capital across countries? Does the expansion of world financial markets in the 1970s and 1980s reflect a tendency towards one integrated world capital market, accessible for both industrialised and developing countries? Or, alternatively, are savings and investment rates for each economy closely tied because of international capital market imperfections? This article critically assesses recent studies that have tested these hypothes…
Private foreign asset accumulation, not just capital flight: Evidence from the Philippines
External debt problems have been accompanied in many developing countries with large private capital outflows. The latter phenomenon is usually identified in the literature as 'capital flight'. This article argues that private foreign asset accumulation is a more appropriate term and compares a great variety of definitions and measurement methods and applies these to Philippine data for 1971–88. Outcomes show striking differences in assessment of…
The gap between legal rules and practice in advertising non-registered pharmaceutical products
Aid Flows and the International Transfer Problem in a Structuralist North- South Model
Journal Article Aid Flows and the International Transfer Problem in a Structuralist North- South Model Get access Rob Vos Rob Vos Institute of Social Studies, The Hague Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, Issue 417, 1 March 1993, Pages 494–508, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234789 Published: 01 March 1993
The Philippine Economy: East Asia’s Stray Cat
External Finance and Adjustment
This book studies the impact of different sources of external finance on growth and development in different country contexts. An important finding of the study is that 'success' or 'failure' in the p
External Finance and Adjustment: Failure and Success in the Developing World
The Philippines: Finance Without Development
Despite more than a decade of adjustment efforts, the Philippine economy continues to experience great difficulty in achieving sustainable growth and development. The archipelago is trailing far behind the economic performance achieved by many of its East Asian neighbours. Long-term structural problems persist and are far from being resolved, in particular the deep-rooted income inequality, poor infrastructure and the oligopolistic structure of m…
Extracting the Lowest-Frequency Words: Pitfalls and Possibilities
In a medical information extraction system, we use common word association techniques to extract side-effect-related terms. Many of these terms have a frequency of less than five. Standard word-association-based applications disregard the lowest-frequency words, and hence disregard useful information. We therefore devised an extraction system for the full word frequency range. This system computes the significance of association by the log-likeli…
Mortalidad Infantil, Equidad y Eficiencia: Un Analisis Costo-Efectivo de Alcanzar la Meta del Milenio en Ecuador
Flopping, Klapping and Gene Doping: Dichotomies Between ‘Natural’ and ‘Artificial’ in Elite Sport
The application of genetic technology seems to threaten what is considered natural in elite sport. This paper explores the role of genetic technology in elite sport and questions the significance of dichotomizing between the natural and artificial element. How do shifts in technology affect the attribution of the human element in athletic performance? To explore the attribution of human agency we compare the genetic enhancement of athletes with t…
Judging without criteria? Sickness certification in Dutch disability schemes
The gate-keeping function that physicians perform in determining clients' physical and mental incapacities is widely assumed to be the main reason for the rising numbers of disabled people. The sharp rise in the number of disabled has led many to claim that the disability benefits schemes are untenable. In order to regain public control and to make disabled eligibility procedures more transparent guidelines have been introduced in which medical e…
Learning from Co-evolution of Policy and Technology. Different PGDs in the Netherlands, Germany and Britain
Approaches in comparative policy analysis have so far focused on the understanding of actors, institutions and their positions in the policy-making process. More recent work attempts to enrich comparative policy analysis by taking the social context and culture into account, in order to do justice to the relevance of policy context for policy content. However, the object or content of policy making has so far largely remained a black box. In this…
Large-scale Research and the Goal of Health: Doable Problem Construction in 'New' Nutrition Science
Contemporary science can be characterized by large-scale multi-sited interdisciplinary co-operation. This kind of co-operation is thought necessary for solving complex scientific problems and, by doing so, to reach the social and normative goals of science, for instance, the promotion of public health. In this paper, we present an analysis of a large-scale multi-sited scientific practice questioning the latter assumption. Do the strategies to sol…
Public Policies for Human Development: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America
This book assesses financing strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean, in pursuance of the United Nations' millennium development goals (MDGs) and their achievement in 2015. It looks at how to ma
Illusions and Disillusions with Poverty Reduction Strategies: Growth, Crisis and the MDGs in Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua
Trust in medical decision-making concerning older people: The views of key professionals in the Dutch health care practice
This article deals with the issue of public trust in decisions made by individual physicians, concerning older people, as perceived by various key professionals. While trust is a basic element in our health care service, it is at the same time a difficult phenomenon to conceptualize. This article tries to contribute to a better understanding of what trust in medical practice entails and what are the necessary conditions for a society to put trust…
The Crisis of Globalization as an Opportunity to Create a Fairer World
After having reviewed trends leading to greater international inequality, this article argues for a more stable international financial system allowing developing countries greater participation in international trade combined with full exploitation of their development potential. As emerging economies tap deeper into global supply chains, outsourcing of jobs will influence employment and there is need for a more transparent, coherent and balance…
The construction of ethnic differences in work incapacity risks: Analysing ordering practices of physicians in the Netherlands
Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
This book assesses feasible financing strategies for policymakers to follow in pursuance of human development, taking as reference the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their achievement by 2015. These strategies are analyzed in the context of broader concerns of economic development with special reference to nine countries from Africa, Asia and the Middle East; that is, how to make macroeconomic policies support more effect…
Alternative Development Strategies for the Post-2015 Era
The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 exposed systemic failings at the core of economic policy making worldwide. The crisis came on top of several other crises, including skyrocketing and highly volatile world food and energy prices and climate change. This book argues that new policy approaches are needed to address such devastating global development challenges and to avoid the potentially catastrophic consequences to livelihoods worldwide th…
Covid-19 risks to global food security
Economic fallout and food supply chain disruptions require attention from policy-makers
Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research
Despite broad agreement in policy circles on the need to reduce food loss and waste (FLW), considerable gaps in information still exist. This paper identifies policy-relevant information gaps, summarizes recent research that tries to fill these gaps and identifies five challenges for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in reducing FLW. The five challenges identified are: (i) measuring and monitoring FLW, (ii) assessing benefits and costs …
The processed food revolution in African food systems and the double burden of malnutrition
African consumers have purchased increasing amounts of processed food over the past 50 years. The opportunity cost of time of women and men has increased as more of them work outside the home, driving them to buy processed food and food prepared away from home to save arduous home-processing and preparation labor. In the past several decades, this trend has accelerated with a surge on the supply side of the processing sector and small and medium …
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