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Cadenas globales de valor y políticas de desarrollo
Value chain interventions are increasingly used by international organizations and donor agencies in the context of their private sector development strategies. These programs pretend to improve market access conditions, support upgrading processes, and modify the distribution of risks and benefits in Global Value Chains (GVCs) in favor of developing countries’ firms and producers. This paper [...]
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Regionalism, end markets and ownership matter: Shifting dynamics in the apparel export industry in Sub Saharan Africa
This paper shows the importance of ownership, end markets and regionalism within the global value chain (GVC) conceptual framework. This is done through unpacking the development trajectories of the major Sub Saharan African (SSA) apparel export industries (Mauritius, Madagascar, Kenya, Lesotho, Swaziland) against the backdrop of global and regional trade regime changes and the manner in which [...]
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Financialization, price risks, and global commodity chains: Distributional implications on cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa
The functioning of commodity markets has changed related to processes of financialization that involve two major developments - the rise of financial interest on commodity derivative markets through the increasing presence of financial investors and the changing business models of international commodity trading houses and the increasing importance of these markets in price setting and risk [...]
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Digitalization for Development? Challenges for Developing Countries
Der erste Teil der diesjährigen Ausgabe der „Österreichischen Entwicklungspolitik“ widmet sich dem Thema Digitalisierung und Entwicklung. Beflügelt von neuen Technologien wie künstlicher Intelligenz, Big Data, Industrie 4.0 und unterschiedlichen Formen der Automatisierung rückte der Diskurs über die digitale Revolution der Wirtschaft in den letzten Jahren sowohl in der akademischen Diskussion als [...]
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Regulatory approximation under ALECA: assessing the economic and social effects on the Tunisian agricultural sector
The negotiations on a deep and comprehensive free trade area (DCFTA) between Tunisia and the European Union (EU) have been ongoing since 2015. Better known by its French acronym – Projet d’accord de libre-échange complet et approfondi’ (ALECA) – the agreement aims for an ambitious liberalisation of trade and investment in order to integrate Tunisia’s economy further into the EU single market. In [...]
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Home Über uns Organisation Organisation Die ÖFSE wurde 1967 in der Rechtsform einer Stiftung öffentlichen Rechts gegründet. Die Gründer – Österreichischer Akademischer Austauschdienst und Afro-Asiatisches Institut Wien – verfolgten das Ziel, ein Informations-, Dokumentations- und Forschungszentrum zu Fragen der Entwicklungspolitik und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit aufzubauen. Beide [...]
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