Briefing Papers

Briefing Paper 28

Digitalization, education and skills development in the Global South: an assessment of the debate with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

Margarita Langthaler / Homa Bazafkan

Wien, November 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified discussions about the digital revolution, but has also ...

Briefing Paper 27

Blockchain Technologies for Commodity Value Chains: The solution for more sustainability?

Bernhard Tröster

Wien, September 2020

Blockchain technologies are seen as a key solution to contain poor social and environmental ...

Briefing Paper 26

Preventing migration with vocational education? Understanding the migration – vocational education nexus

Margarita Langthaler / Dilara Gündüz

Wien, Juni 2020

In many parts of the world, migration has become a controversially debated issue and a polic ...

Briefing Paper 25

Commodity-dependent countries in the COVID-19 crisis

Bernhard Tröster

Wien, Mai 2020

Commodity markets have reacted to the COVID-19 crisis with drastic price movements and chang ...

Briefing Paper 24

Going Global. Chinese natural resource policies and their impacts on Latin America

Karin Küblböck / Bernhard Tröster / Christoph Ambach

Wien, Oktober 2019

China is today the second-largest economy after the US (UN ECLAC 2018a) and the world-leadin ...

Briefing Paper 23

Globale Partnerschaften in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Mit einem Fokus auf den Bildungssektor

Margarita Langthaler / Michael Obrovsky

Wien, August 2019

Das Konzept der globalen Partnerschaft in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit kann auf eine länge ...

Briefing Paper 22

Import promotion as an instrument of development cooperation – lessons from European experiences for Austrian development cooperation

Jan Grumiller / Werner Raza

Wien, Juli 2019

Import promotion has become an important pillar of private sector development activities in ...

Briefing Paper 21

Blended Finance und das Potenzial für die Enwicklungszusammenarbeit

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Karin Küblböck / Hannes Grohs

Wien, Jänner 2020

Die Umsetzung der Agenda 2030 bringt einen massiven Finanzierungsbedarf mit sich. In der Deb ...

Briefing Paper 21

Blended Finance and its potential for development cooperation.

Karin Küblböck / Hannes Grohs

Wien, Juli 2019

The implementation of the Agenda 2030 entails massive financing needs. The debate increasing ...

Briefing Paper 20

Hochschulbildung als Ziel und treibende Kraft der Sustainable Development Goals

Reflexionen aus entwicklungspolitischer Perspektive

Margarita Langthaler / Lorenz Probst

Wien, Mai 2019

Die UN-Agenda 2030 und die 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) schreiben Hochschulbildun ...