Since the early 1990ies, Private Sector Development has become a major issue within the field of development policies. Consequently, bi- and multilateral development banks, i.e. institutions that basically provide finance for projects in developing and emerging countries have been gaining in importance. The visions of these development finance institutions reflect their conviction that the private [...]

Private sector development (PSD) has taken on an increasingly prominent role in both the debates as well as budgets of international development cooperation in recent years. While the promotion of private sector activities in developing countries has for a long time been part of development cooperation strategies, in the past years there has been a shift towards a more proactive role of the [...]

Experience of international development cooperation has shown that local institutional and personnel capacities are crucial in order to achieve sustainable development and poverty reduction. On a global level, however, the gap between industrial and developing countries in terms of technological and scientific capacities tends to widen rather than to narrow. Consequently, capacity development has [...]

In his master‘s thesis, Michael Vysin examines the role of development cooperation for upgrading processes in the organic fruit sector in Uganda. He takes the example of mangoes and pineapples which are the main export products in this sector in Uganda and focuses on the perspective of export companies. As a theoretical framework, he uses the global value chain approach and particularly the [...]

Structural transformation and export diversification into higher value-added products and away from primary commodities remain major development objectives for low-income countries (LICs). Sectors such as apparel or leather products have traditionally been gateways to export diversification for LICs and are generally regarded as first steps for developing countries embarking on an export-oriented [...]

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