Working Papers

Working Paper 62

Commodity dependence, global commodity chains, price volatility and financialisation: Price-setting and stabilisation in the cocoa sectors in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana

Bernhard Tröster / Cornelia Staritz / Jan Grumiller / Felix Maile

Wien, December 2019

Commodity price volatility remains a crucial challenge of commodity-dependent countries of t ...

Working Paper 61

Towards an Institutional Setup for Industrial Policy in Late Industrialization in the 21st Century

Jan Grumiller / Werner Raza

Wien, November 2019

Political and scholary debates on the potentials and constraints of inclusive and sustainabl ...

Working Paper 60

A Strategic-Relational Approach to Analyzing Industrial Policy Regimes within Global Production Networks: the Ethiopian Leather and Leather Products Sector

Wien, October 2019

This paper contributes to debates regarding the lack of theorization of the state and the ov ...

Working Paper 59

Harnessing Foreign Direct Investment for Local Development? Spillovers in Apparel Global Value Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cornelia Staritz / Stacey Frederick

Wien, December 2016

At the beginning of the 2000s, the introduction of the African Growth and Opportunity Act c ...

Working Paper 58

Labour rights in Peru and the EU trade agreement

Compliance with the commitments under the sustainable development chapter

Jan Orbie / Lore Van den Putte

Wien, August 2016

European Union (EU) trade policy has become increasingly contested and politicised. Citizens ...

Working Paper 57

Modelling the impacts of trade on employment and development: A structuralist CGE-model for the analysis of TTIP and other trade agreements

Werner Raza / Lance Taylor / Bernhard Tröster / Rudi von Arnim

Wien, April 2016

In recent years, a number of studies have been put forth to assess the potential economic ef ...

Working Paper 56

Global commodity chains, financial markets, and local market structures – Price risks in the coffee sector in Ethiopia

Bernhard Tröster

Wien, December 2015

Ethiopia is known to be the origin of coffee, and still today coffee is of crucial importanc ...

Working Paper 55

Financialization, price risks, and global commodity chains: Distributional implications on cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cornelia Staritz / Susan Newman / Bernhard Tröster / Leonhard Plank

Wien, August 2015

The functioning of commodity markets has changed related to processes of financialization th ...

Working Paper 54

Cotton-based development in Sub-Saharan Africa? Global commodity chains, national market structure and development outcomes in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Tanzania

Cornelia Staritz / Bernhard Tröster

Wien, August 2015

Cotton is one of the most important cash crops in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and has had an im ...

Working Paper 53

The transfer of the Austrian dual system of vocational education to transition and developing countries.

An analysis from a developmental perspective

Margarita Langthaler

Wien, July 2015

The increasing international interest in the Austrian dual system of apprenticeship has trig ...