Deutsche Unternehmen investieren wenig in Afrika. Damit werden viele Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten verpasst – auf beiden Seiten. Nötig wären sichere Rahmenbedingungen.

Der Welthandel ist seit dem Herbst 2016 wieder deutlich aufwärts gerichtet, nachdem er in den Jahren zuvor nur schwach gestiegen und zeitweise sogar r?

Global foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased substantially over the past decades and so has FDI in Africa. However, still only 3 percent of glob

German Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Africa is lagging behind China, France, the Netherlands, the UK, the US, and other economies. It represented only 1 percent of the German total FDI stock abroad in 2018 and is concentrated in few African...

This report examines key aspects of the European Union-China economic relationship, including trade, investment and China’s key strategic project overseas, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). We conclude that China is, and will continue to be, a...

Kiel Policy Brief Nr. 142: Taiwan und Südkorea gelten als besonders erfolgreich bei der Eindämmung von Covid-19.

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance e

In this article, we briefly review our own work, and related studies, on the impact of FDI in African countries using firm level data. Overall, research suggests that foreign multinationals can indeed benefit local firms in terms of productivity...

Compared with China’s well known dominance in world trade, its expanding role in global finance is poorly documented and understood. Over the past decades, China has exported record amounts of capital to the rest of the world.