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Chinese firms and adherence to global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards in developing countries : is there potential to create common ground?

Morris, Mike - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2023

This paper focuses on analysing how Chinese firms operate in Latin America, Asia and Africa in regard to ESG (environmental, social and governance) standards and sustainability issues. How do they respond to the increasing global value chain requirement to incorporate and maintain ESG standards?...

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Are global value chains for sale? : on business-state relations in the MENA region

Aboushady, Nora; Zaki, Chahir - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2023

We use new data on political connections from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys to examine the impact of connections on firms’ participation in global value chains (GVCs) for six MENA countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and Lebanon). In addition to political...

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From mines to markets : gravity model insights on critical raw material trade

Stender, Frederik; Vogel, Tim - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2025

Access to critical raw materials (CRMs) is increasingly being shaped by geopolitical dynamics, fuelling a global competition for supply security. This paper applies the gravity model of trade to examine how OECD countries leverage Aid for Trade (AfT), Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), and...

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Trump 2.0 in times of political upheaval? : implications of a possible second presidency for international politics and Europe

Klingebiel, Stephan; Baumann, Max-Otto - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2024

A second presidential term for Donald Trump would undoubtedly have huge impacts on topics in all areas of international relations - topics that are intrinsically relevant to all actors due to the status of the United States as a world power. Trump's political agenda differs considerably from...

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Mexico's "catch-22" : the implications of being a trade and climate partner of the United States and the European Union

Lucatello, Simone - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2022

Under the current global environmental governance and trade regimes, several initiatives, such as the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the European Union's European Green Deal, and regional free trade agreements the European Union has implemented with strategic partners like Mexico,...

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Trump's assault on foreign aid : implications for international development cooperation

Haug, Sebastian; Novoselova, Anna; Klingebiel, Stephan - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2025

The United States of America has long been a leading force in international development cooperation, both politically and financially. However, the first weeks of the second Trump administration have called the traditional role of US foreign aid fundamentally into question. From a 90-day funding...

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What role for aid for trade in (deep) PTA relations? : empirical evidence from gravity model estimations

Stender, Frederik; Vogel, Tim - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2023

While recent preferential trade agreements (PTAs) cover an increasingly broad range of policy areas beyond their traditional competence for reducing bilateral tariffs, little is known about the implications of this new emphasis on interactions with other trade-related policy measures. We...

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Geopolitical competition in the Indo-Pacific : managing development cooperation

Nath, Ela; Klingebiel, Stephan - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2023

This Policy Brief examines the geopoliticisation of development cooperation within the Indo-Pacific region. First, we discuss the emergence of Indo-Pacific strategies and how these intersect with geopolitics and development cooperation amongst traditional develop-ment actors such as the United...

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Trump 2.0 in einer Zeit globaler Umbrüche? : Implikationen einer möglichen erneuten Präsidentschaft für die internationale Politik und Europa

Klingebiel, Stephan; Baumann, Max-Otto - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2024

Auswirkungen haben; relevant sind sie aufgrund der Weltmachtstellung der USA per se für alle Akteure. Trumps politische Inhalte … unterscheiden sich gravierend von früheren republikanischen Präsidenten in den USA. Sein Populismus hat den konservativen … Nachhaltigkeitsziele zu erreichen und den Klimawandel zu bekämpfen. Falls sich die USA an vielen Stellen zurückziehen, dürften sie so zum …

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