Adequate policy space is essential for resource-rich countries to move up the value chain and seize the opportunities presented by global decarbonization and the demand for low-carbon technologies. However, WTO rules, investment and free trade agreements (FTAs) deprive nonhegemonic powers of the...

Adequate policy space is essential for resource-rich countries to move up the value chain and seize the opportunities presented by global decarbonization and the demand for low-carbon technologies. However, WTO rules, investment and free trade agreements (FTAs) deprive nonhegemonic powers of the...

Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) stands at a critical juncture as it faces a set of interrelated socio-ecological crises: extreme vulnerability to climate crisis, rising levels of violent crime, and deeply rooted social inequality and exclusion fuelled by inequalities and injustices in the world of...

Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) stands at a critical juncture as it faces a set of interrelated socio-ecological crises: extreme vulnerability to climate crisis, rising levels of violent crime, and deeply rooted social inequality and exclusion fuelled by inequalities and injustices in the world of...

The COVID-19 crisis is unique in many respects and, as the IMF (2021, p. 43) puts it: "a crisis like no other". A global economic contraction occurred that was unprecedented in its speed and depth. Support packages were put together in some parts of the world that also dwarfed anything seen up...

In the last decades in particular, national governments as well as development agencies and international organizations have increasingly turned to participation in global value chains (GVCs) as a development strategy. However, whether the positive development effects of integration are large...

The COVID-19 crisis is unique in many respects and, as the IMF (2021, p. 43) puts it: "a crisis like no other". A global economic contraction occurred that was unprecedented in its speed and depth. Support packages were put together in some parts of the world that also dwarfed anything seen up...

In the last decades in particular, national governments as well as development agencies and international organizations have increasingly turned to participation in global value chains (GVCs) as a development strategy. However, whether the positive development effects of integration are large...

In traditional trade theory, it is generally assumed that the development of export-oriented industries in the Global South can create the conditions for technological spillover effects, productivity increases and social welfare gains. However, based on the results of comparative case studies in...

Die Integration des Globalen Südens in die Wertschöpfungsketten multinationaler Konzerne ist zu einem dominanten entwicklungsökonomischen Paradigma geworden. Die AutorInnen zeigen anhand vergleichender Branchen- und Länder-Fallstudien, dass die damit verbundene Erwartung wirtschaftlicher...