This policy note presents policy recommendations for a sustainable development strategy targeting the Ivorian and Ghanaian cocoa processing sectors. Against the backdrop of a comparatively small share of processed cocoa exports and limited opportunities in the cocoa global value chain, industrial policies should primarily seek to leverage the increasing opportunities in the local and regional as [...]

The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries mark a new era in the economic relations between both sides. Reciprocal tariff liberalization will however result in asymmetric market opening by ACP partners, which will entail negative, though small, macroeconomic effects for these countries in the short to medium term. In order to [...]

Home Publikationen Aktueller Kommentar Aktueller Kommentar Februar 2019 Neues Bekenntnis der EU-Kommission zu den SDGs, aber Umsetzung bleibt ungewiss. Die Europäische Kommission hat mit dem Reflexionspapier Auf dem Weg zu einem Nachhaltigen EUROPA bis 2030 eine brauchbare Diskussionsgrundlage mit drei Szenarien zur Umsetzung der Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Europa vorgelegt. Jetzt [...]

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the development of forward linkages to cocoa processing in the Ivorian and Ghanaian cocoa sectors. The paper argues that Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana were able to promote the grinding sectors with varying success in the context of shifting Global Value Chain (GVC) dynamics, foreign-direct investment (FDI) oriented industrial policies and ongoing [...]

The European Union (EU) promotes the Free Trade Agreement with Vietnam (EVFTA) as an important milestone of its trade agenda. The agreement, whose part with EU-only issues is supposed to be ratified in 2019, is the most comprehensive one that the EU has concluded with a developing country so far, including an ambitious sustainability chapter. The reciprocal liberalization of tariffs and quotas [...]

Home Publikationen Aktueller Kommentar Aktueller Kommentar Jänner 2019 EU-Afrika Forum: Pop-Up Inszenierung oder Paradigmenwechsel in den EU-Afrika Beziehungen? Das High-Level Forum Africa-Europe am 18. Dezember 2018 in Wien wurde als das entwicklungspolitische „Highlight“ der österreichischen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft angesehen. Mit Hilfe der Verknüpfung von Digitalisierung, Wirtschaft und [...]