The apparel sector has traditionally been a gateway to structural transformation, industrialisation, export diversification, and sustainable development for low-income countries. The Ethiopian government regards this sector as a key priority in driving the country’s industrial development strategy. Ethiopia is an exporting latecomer compared to other sub-Saharan African apparel exporters. But [...]

Home Publikationen Aktueller Kommentar Aktueller Kommentar April 2021 „All Time High“ bei der ODA 2020. Kein Grund zum Jubeln! Die öffentliche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (ODA) aller Mitglieder des Development Assistance Committee (DAC) der OECD erreichte 2020 rund 160 Mrd US$. Angesichts der Folgen der COVID-Krise für den globalen Süden braucht es aber dringend weitere Erhöhungen der ODA. Von [...]

China’s demand for commodities and its role as an investor and creditor in the global periphery are closely connected. In the past two decades, China’s outward activities have perpetuated commodity-based development models in the Global South, which are linked with negative socio-ecological effects. In this paper, we assess China’s engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, by analysing [...]

While Vocational Education and Training (VET) was almost absent from earlier international development frameworks, the Agenda 2030 and its SDGs attach greater importance to it. This Briefing Paper analyses the VET and SDG debates from different angles. In the first part, the paper traces the history of VET in international development cooperation and summarises the discussion on current VET [...]

The concept of the ‘resource curse’ has typically been used to explain the adverse effects of resource abundance on economic growth and development. More recently, however, the validity of this approach has been challenged. Not the abundance of natural resources per se, but the ability to cope with the volatility of commodity prices is now seen as one of the major factors for the development of [...]

Home Über uns Mitarbeiter*innen Wissenschaft & Forschung Cornelia Staritz Dr. in Cornelia Staritz Senior Research Associate Kontakt: cornelia.staritz@univie.ac.at Cornelia Staritz ist Associate Professorin für Entwicklungsökonomie am Institut für Internationale Entwicklung der Universität Wien. Sie ist außerdem Senior Research Associate bei der Österreichische Forschungsstiftung für Internationale [...]