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Die "Economic Partnership Agreements" (EPAs) mit Westafrika
Die bisherigen Kooperationsabkommen zwischen der EU und den AKP-Ländern gestanden letzteren nicht-reziproke Handelspräferenzen für ihre Exporte in den EU-Markt zu. Gemäß dem im Jahr 2000 verabschiedeten Cotonou-Abkommen sollten ab 2008 stattdessen reziproke Freihandelsabkommen (Economic Partnership Agreements - EPAs) in Kraft treten. Wesentlicher Grund für diese Neuerung war die Auflage der [...]
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Ex-ante versus ex-post assessments of the economic benefits of Free Trade Agreements
Much of the current discussion about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is focused on the potential welfare and employment effects. Supporters of TTIP often support their argument by highlighting the optimistic results of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. CGE-models are the methodological backbone of most ex-ante impact assessments of free-trade agreements, as for [...]
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Die Europäische Investitionspolitik nach dem Vertrag von Lissabon und ihr Einfluss auf nachhaltige Entwicklung
Mit Inkrafttreten des Vertrags von Lissabon im Dezember 2009 ist die Kompetenz für Investitionsverträge mit Drittstaaten auf die Europäische Union (EU) übergegangen und ist nun Teil der Gemeinsamen Handelspolitik nach Art. 206-207 TFEU. Zukünftig soll die EU in der Lage sein, internationale Investitionsabkommen sowie Freihandelsabkommen, die Investitionskomponenten enthalten, mit Drittstaaten [...]
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Fair Trade, better lives? An assessment of Fair Trade’s contribution to improve Turkana basket weavers’ livelihoods
Fair trade has over the course of the last 30 years become a forceful model for socially and environmentally sustainable North-South trade. As such, it has given thousands of poor farmers and their families an economic alternative which has made them less dependent on the vagaries of the global market, and pays them a premium which can be used to foster socio-economic development. Nevertheless, [...]
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Financialisation and the microstructure of commodity markets
The financialisation of commodity derivative markets, reflected in the increased presence of financial investors, and its effects on commodity prices and the fundamental roles of these markets, i.e. price discovery and price risk management for commercial traders, have been controversially discussed. This working paper provides an analysis of the microstructure of commodity derivative markets with [...]
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Local embeddedness and economic and social upgrading in Madagascar's export apparel industry
Over the past decade, several Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries have developed or expanded export-oriented apparel industries in the context of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) quotas and preferential market access, most importantly under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Madagascar is different to the other main SSA low-income country (LIC) apparel exporters - Kenya, Lesotho and [...]