This paper assesses the export-oriented clothing industry in the five main sub-Saharan African (SSA) clothing exporter countries (Mauritius, Madagascar, Kenya, Lesotho and Swaziland). The focus is on analysing the various characteristics driving firm and value-chain dynamics as well as upgrading and industrial development outcomes. This includes challenges related to global dynamics as well as [...]

The Master thesis of Ms Marina Hülssiep with the title “Governance and gender dynamics in global value chains. A case study of the industrial dairy value chain in Matiguás, Nicaragua“ takes issue with the phenomenon of global value chains (GVC). Given the large-scale territorial reorganization of production at the global level since the 1970s, which has also importantly included the economies of [...]

Home Über uns Mitarbeiter*innen Wissenschaft & Forschung Lukas Schlögl Dr. Lukas Schlögl Senior Researcher Tel.: +43 1 317 40 10 – 110 E-Mail: l.schloegl@oefse.at Sensengasse 3, 1090 Wien Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Entwicklungspolitik und Entwicklungsfinanzierung; Digitalisierung und technologischer Wandel; Lukas Schlögl ist Sozialwissenschaftler mit den Schwerpunkten Entwicklungspolitik, [...]

The human capacity to learn through formal or informal education is considered a key resource for achieving sustainable development on a global scale. Accordingly, the UN-Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals refer to education and its transformative power by integrating it both as a cross-cutting issue and as target 4.7. However, there are many different practical, pedagogical and [...]

Despite growing consensus around the need for a more holistic vision of development, realising the human development potential of educational interventions has proven a challenging task. This Forum grapples with how these tensions manifest in the international transfer of dual models of Vocational Education and Training (dVET) to low- and middle-income countries. While dVET has gained global [...]

As soon as with the Treaty of Maastricht, the newly founded European Union formally stated a broad development cooperation approach in the supranational treaties. Since then the overall institutional framework has been continuously improved in favour of development cooperation by both, legal acts and 'soft law' while implementation of development policy issues mostly has lagged behind. Based on an [...]