Home Research & Consulting International Trade and Global Value Chains Global Value Chains Global Value Chains International trade and global production are increasingly organised into global value chains (GVC) in which transnational corporations divide up the production process and start producing on a global scale. The integration into and the improvement of a company’s position in GVCs has [...]

Home Research & Consulting International Trade and Global Value Chains EU and International Trade Policy EU and International Trade Policy At the latest since the negotiations between the EU and the USA on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in 2014/15, EU trade policy has become a focus of public interest. A major reason for this is the broad agenda of the so-called 'new [...]

Home Research & Consulting Development Finance Austrian development financing Austrian development financing A country's contribution to international development cooperation is measured on the basis of various financial contributions, falling under the statistical definitions of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) . We consider the full spectrum of Austria’s financial contributions [...]

Home Research & Consulting Education and Development Vocational Education and Skills Development Vocational Education and Skills Development After decades of neglect as a field of intervention in international development cooperation, vocational education and training (VET) has been experiencing a renaissance in recent years. The reasons for this are high youth unemployment , the realisation that [...]

Home Research & Consulting Education and Development Education and Development Promoting education has been a priority field of intervention since the beginning of international development cooperation after the Second World War. On the one hand, access to education is a human right; on the other, education is seen as an important instrument for achieving poverty reduction, economic development, [...]

Home Research & Consulting Development Finance Development Finance Issues of development finance play a central role in international development policy. Since the 2002 UN conference "Financing for Development - FfD" in Monterrey, the scope of relevant financing instruments has grown and includes both public financial flows (e.g. public loans and grants) and private financial flows (including [...]