This paper analyses the emergence of internal debtor-creditor relationships within a monetary union. Developing a stock-flow consistent model consisting of three regions - North, South, and the Rest of the World (RoW), where North and South form a monetary union - it shows how the simultaneous...

Scientific collaboration between Northern and Southern researchers and development programs for research capacity-building have received new attention of practitioners and scholars during the last decades. This essay review takes four recent publications on North-South research cooperation and...

"Praised for its authoritative coverage, Global Political Economy places the study of IPE in broad theoretical context- has been updated to cover the rise of populism, Brexit, US-China trade wars, tariffs, refugees and global migration, continuing environmental degradation, and the residual...

The European north-south divide has been an issue of a long-standing debate. We employ a Global VAR model for 28 developed and developing countries to examine the interaction between the global trade imbalances and their impact within the euro-area framework. The aim is to assess the propagation...

North-South foreign direct investment (FDI) is frequently viewed as a process in which jobs relocate from the North to the South. I build a growth model with two asymmetric trading economies, the North where firms innovate and the South where Northern firms invest to take advantage of lower...

The politics of aid from the perspective of international relations theories / Bernabé Malacalza -- Foreign aid's motivations : theoretical arguments and empirical evidence / Gino N. Pauselli -- The U.S. elite consensus on aid / Henry de Cazotte -- The UK : an aid superpower at a crossroads /...

The economies of small developing states tend to be more fragile than those in large ones. This paper examines this issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of education and North-South trade-related technology diffusion (NRD) on TFP growth in small and large states in the South. The...

Introduction -- Power, institutions and legitimacy in trade politics -- The evolving rules and practice of trade with developing countries : from Lomé to Cotonou -- North-South PTAS and the multilateral system : contesting the EPAs -- Regionalisms collide : the EPAs in Africa -- Institutions...

"In this second volume of his memoirs and final writings based on his life, Samir Amin describes his thoughts and experiences with an array of countries, primarily in the Arab World, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, recounting in detail the stages of his ongoing dialogue over several decades...

Welche ethischen, sozialen und politischen Konsequenzen hat die fortschreitende Ökonomisierung sämtlicher Lebensbereiche für unser individuelles und kollektives Leben? Und inwieweit ist Subjektivität selbst zu einer ökonomischen Konstellation geworden? Der gleichermassen für Unternehmen...

"Winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy--Paul A. Baran Memorial Award for original work regarding the political economy of imperialism, 'Value Chains' examines the exploitation of labor in the Global South. Focusing on the issue of labor within global value chains, this book offers a deft empirical...

In unserer globalisierten Welt werden Waren, Rohstoffe und auch immer mehr Lebensmittel überregional gehandelt. Die beteiligten Global Player nutzen dabei Ungleichheiten ökonomisch aus. Dass es dabei selten gerecht oder fair zugeht, kritisiert der Faire Handel und stellt damit eine Alternative...

In this paper I build a North-South model of international trade, economic growth and search-frictional unemployment in the North. Growth is driven by a process of creative destruction in the North followed by imitation in the South. I study the effects of intellectual property rights protection...

Vor dem Hintergrund einer wachsenden Weltbevölkerung ist für Deutschland für das Jahr 2060 eine Bevölkerung von 90 Millionen wahrscheinlicher als die offiziell vorausgesagte Abnahme auf 70 Millionen. Einer im nächsten halben Jahrhundert stabilen Einwohnerzahl Deutschlands entspricht eine...

This paper presents a dynamic North-South general-equilibrium model where households have non-homothetic preferences. Innovation takes place in a rich North while norms in a poor South imitate products manufactured in North. Introducing non-homothetic preferences delivers a complete...