Globalisation processes and technological change, as well as the on-going crises due to the COVID-19 pandemic, pose new challenges and traditional top-down development policies seem not to be suitable to address all these effectively. At the same time, a territorial and participatory approach to...

Recent German and international policy initiatives such as the Compact with Africa or the Marshall Plan with Africa all have had a strong focus on promoting (foreign) private investment for job creation. The development success of these initiatives hinges on their ability to create decent work...

This workshop gathers economists working in the field of economic dynamics, growth theory, international trade, mathematical modeling of economic dynamics, on problems of equilibrium growth and on models of large trading economies. Other important themes of the Workshop include the role, causes...

The central theme of the conference will be the consequences of and the lessons to be learnt from the economic and political rise of new global actors, including countries like China and India. The resulting power shifts and the strengthening of interactions between developing countries have...

The conference will focus on growth and trade in the world’s leading emerging economies Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) and the repercussions on the world economy. Topics will be: - Growth prospects of the BRICs - The BRICs and the current world economic crisis - International trade...

Presenter: Professor Ilan Alon (Director of the China Center of Rollins College, Visiting Scholar and Asia fellow at Harvard) Discussant: Professor Christoph Lattemann (Professor for Information Management and Corporate Governance Educatis University, Switzerland, and Harvard Kennedy School...

Against the background of Africa’s increased strategic significance as a 900-million people continent, with a vast resource export potential and slowly transforming socio-political scene, the lecture will critically review South Africa’s rise as the dominant economic power of the continent....