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Lieferengpässe in Österreich? Globale Warenketten von Medizinprodukten während der COVID-19 Pandemie
Die COVID-19 Pandemie hat zu einem starken Nachfrageanstieg nach Medizinprodukten geführt. Zeitgleich kam es zu Lieferproblemen in internationalen Lieferketten aufgrund von gesundheitspolitischen (z.B. Lockdowns) und wirtschaftspolitischen Maßnahmen (z.B. Ausfuhrkontrollen). Beides zusammen hatte temporäre Knappheiten von Gütern zur Folge und löste eine kontroverse Diskussion über die Vor- und [...]
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Understanding Commodity Markets to Effectively Address Price Increases and Volatility in A Post-COVID-19 World
Dependence on agro-commodity exports amongst low-income economies mean that they are uniquely vulnerable to balance of payment shocks. They are often also dependent on the imports of food crops and energy, resulting in a double burden in the post-COVID-19 period. In this paper, we review new and old theories of price formation in order to problematise price behaviour from the perspective of [...]
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The criticality of lithium and the sustainability-finance nexus: Supply-demand perceptions, state policies, production networks, and financial actors
The eco-technological fix to the climate crisis renders certain resources, such as lithium, as ‘critical’. We argue that criticality is actively produced in socio-technological processes and is interrelated with strategies of firm strategies in global production networks (GPNs) and financial actors, legitimizing extractivism for sustainability transformations. Financial actors mobilize ‘green’ [...]
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Monopolmacht und Wettbewerbspolitik als Countervailing Power in globalen Warenketten
Globale Warenketten sind ein zentrales Merkmal der Hyperglobalisierung, die Vorteile daraus sind jedoch sehr ungleich verteilt. Aufgrund von institutionellen und technologischen Markteintrittsbarrieren, etwa durch den zunehmenden Einsatz von immateriellen Vermögensgütern, konnten Leitunternehmen aus dem Globalen Norden ihre Marktmacht auf Absatzmärkten und Beschaffungsmärkten auf Kosten der [...]
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The role of social dialogue in the transfer of the dual system of vocational education and training. The case of Serbia
The transfer of the dual system of vocational education and training (VET) has been increasing for some years, both towards OECD countries and to the Global South. It also plays an increasing role in development cooperation. One reason for this is the assumption that dual VET is one of the main reasons for low youth unemployment and high economic productivity in German-speaking countries. In [...]
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Price-making in mineral provisioning systems and social-ecological transformation? The cases of copper, cobalt and lithium
Mineral extraction research has often overlooked the significance of price-making processes. This paper employs a provisioning framework to delve into this process. Price-setting is far from a purely technical exercise; it is a complex power struggle involving various stakeholders as shown for the ‘electric vehicle metals’ copper, cobalt, and lithium. Financial entities exert substantial [...]