Der Maastrichtvertrag zur Schaffung der Europäischen Union (1992) bildet die gesetzliche Grundlage für die Verankerung von entwicklungspolitischer Kohärenz (PCD - Policy Coherence for Development), die allerdings erst mit der Erklärung der Millennium Development Goals (2000) tatsächlich als wichtiges Element der internationalen Entwicklungspolitik entdeckt und aktiviert wurde. Trotz der Bemühungen [...]

The apparel sector has traditionally been a gateway to export diversification and industrial development for low-income countries (LICs). In the context of heightened competition and recent changes in the global apparel sector related to trade liberalization and global buyers' sourcing policies, the paper discusses to what extent the apparel sector can still provide this role for LICs today. [...]

Policymakers are increasingly turning to global value chains (GVCs) as a means of driving development, including generating employment and raising incomes. Access to and benefits from participation in GVCs are closely related to gender issues. The opportunities associated with GVCs differ for men and women as a result of gender-based segregation and constraints that exist to different degrees in [...]

This article argues that the microfinance model that arrived in Latin America in the 1970s has proven, as elsewhere around the world, to be an almost wholly destructive economic and social policy intervention. Centrally, I argue that the microfinance model is responsible for embedding and giving continued impetus to an adverse 'anti-development' trajectory in Latin America's economies, one that [...]

Die Rolle der arabischen Staaten als entwicklungspolitische Akteure ist sowohl im politischen als auch im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs nicht präsent. Dies mag einerseits auf sprachliche Barrieren und andererseits darauf zurückzuführen sein, dass der Diskurs über die neue Entwicklungsarchitektur nach wie vor westlichen Denk- und Analysemodellen folgt. Die Akteure der arabischen Geber, ihre Strategien [...]

Many low-income countries are integrated into apparel global value chains through foreign direct investment (FDI), including Lesotho, which has become the largest Sub-Saharan African apparel exporter to the US under the African Growth and Opportunity Act. More recently, South Africa has emerged as a new apparel export market in Lesotho. The two markets are supplied by different types of FDI firms [...]