publication (September 2020), WTO negotiations on Investment Facilitation for Development have
“Social cohesion” and the “social contract” are two interrelated concepts that help to understand the relationships between individuals, social…
cohesion” and the “social contract” are two related analytical concepts, which have
The EU Migration Partnership Framework has caused controversy for its strong focus on EU interests and use of positive and negative incentives to…
negative incentives mark a departure from previous EU migration initiatives and have
To “make standards work” for SMEs and sustainable development, the challenges and incentives for take-up of sustainability standards need to be…
the organisation of complex production networks into global value chains (GVCs) have
The policy brief discusses the growing politicisation and polarisation surrounding health data (sharing) in negotiations towards a new Pandemic…
This policy brief discusses diverse and multiplying policy frames that have influenced
with the Great Depression of the 1930s considerably fewer protectionist measures have
There is a possibility that the development ministers of the OECD will agree on a new definition of official development assistance (ODA) at the end…
beginning of the end“ of development cooperation as we know it, particularly as we have
Whilst the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development does more to address global economic governance issues than the Millennium Development Goals…
The past two decades have witnessed the quadrupling of global trade and a tenfold
of the 19 most important industrial and emerging countries, as well as the EU, have
River basin organizations are supposed to foster a sustainable use of water resources. However, in developing countries they are often underfunded….
recent years the processes of RBO institutionalisation and fiscal decentralisation have
