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agreements (IIAs) have been found to be less important (World Bank, 2018). To harness the advantages of FDI, it is critical that … adopted at the 11th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December 2017 called for the start of … geography of economic power in the world. Their increased role has led to a shift of policy agendas, focusing on practical …
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Digitalisation is transforming the economy and redefining trade. Recently, members of the World Trade Organization (WTO …
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Evidence exists that democracies are particularly stable, yet also that processes of democratisation are highly susceptible to conflict, especially if democratisation occurs in the aftermath of violent conflict. New research from the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für...
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-scientific world view. Restrictions on civil society are one of the consequences of government action dominated by populism. When it …
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This paper provides an overview of what is actually known about the relationship between climate change and human mobility in West, East and Southern Africa - the most affected regions of Sub-Saharan Africa. Although there is a general lack of data on "climate migration", trends can be deduced...
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To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, developing countries need additional funding. Funding can come from four sources: domestic public resources (or revenues), international public resources, domestic private resources or international private resources. Of these four...
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countries has been driving discussions at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the establishment of an international investment …
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The question of whether and how democracy can be promoted and protected through international support has recently gained relevance. On the one hand, the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan has reignited a public debate on the limits of democracy promotion. On the other hand, the need for...
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The European Commission unveiled the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) in July 2021 as part of its "Fit for 55" climate-policy package. The European Commission had announced this trade-policy instrument under the Green Deal in 2019 as a means of implementing more ambitious climate-policy...
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tremendous ecological footprint in other parts of the world. The EU has referred to this "external dimension" of the Green Deal …
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