Other publications

Industrial upgrading and development in Lesotho’s apparel industry: global value chains, foreign direct investment, and market diversification

Oxford Development Studies Volume 45, 2017 - Issue 3

Mike Morris / Cornelia Staritz

September 2016

Many low-income countries are integrated into apparel global value chains through foreign di ...

The Gender Dimensions of Global Value Chains

Issue Paper / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)

Penny Bamber / Cornelia Staritz

September 2016

Policymakers are increasingly turning to global value chains (GVCs) as a means of driving de ...

TTIP – mehr Regulierungs- als Freihandelsabkommen

Wirtschaftsdienst - Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 96(3), 159-171.

August 2016

2016 soll das Abkommen zur Transatlantischen Handels- und Investitionspartnerschaft abgeschl ...

Faire Verbindung? Tantal für die High-Tech-Industrie und die Folgen seines Abbaus in Bolivien

Karin Küblböck / Isabella Radhuber / Gloria Huamán Rodríguez

July 2016

Tantal ist ein Metall, das bis Anfang der 2000er Jahre nur Spezialist/innen ein Begriff war. ...

Clothing Global Value Chains and Sub-Saharan Africa: Global Exports, Regional Dynamics and Industrial Development Outcomes

International Trade Working Paper 2016/16

Cornelia Staritz / Mike Morris / Leonhard Plank

May 2016 | ISSN 3413-3175

This paper assesses the export-oriented clothing industry in the five main sub-Saharan Afric ...

The blind spots of trade impact assessment: macroeconomic adjustment costs and the social costs of regulatory change

European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention 16(1)

Werner Raza / Bernhard Tröster / Rudi von Arnim

April 2016 | Print ISSN: 20527764 | Online ISSN: 20527772

Economic studies on trade liberalization typically highlight positive expected effects. This ...

Social up- and downgrading trajectories of apparel workers in Romania: Europeanization, fast fashion and the global economic crisis

European Review of Labour and Research. 22(2)

Leonhard Plank / Cornelia Staritz

March 2016

Although the expansion of global production networks (GPNs) has been an important source of ...

Die Konjunkturen der Bildungszusammenarbeit. Ein Liebkind der internationalen EZA?

HSK Band 34

Margarita Langthaler

March 2016

Bildung zählt seit den Anfängen der internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit zu deren them ...

Regionalism, end markets and ownership matter: Shifting dynamics in the apparel export industry in Sub Saharan Africa

Mike Morris / Leonhard Plank / Cornelia Staritz

January 2016

This paper shows the importance of ownership, end markets and regionalism within the global ...

Financialization and commodity prices – an empirical analysis for coffee, cotton, wheat and oil

International Review of Applied Economics Volume 30, 2016 - Issue 4

Stefan Ederer / Christine Heumesser / Cornelia Staritz

January 2016

Commodity prices have crucial implications for developing countries. The question whether th ...