The impacts of the “COVID-19 shock” on African economies are unfolding rapidly and can be expected to vary widely by country. The effects can be divided into indirect effects depending on countries’ exposure to international trade, tourism and FDI in...

Die großen Pläne der türkischen Führung, die Türkei zu einem modernen Industrieland umzubauen, das an der Nahtstelle von Orient und Okzident als Zentrum von Handel und Produktion Wohlstand für die inzwischen fast 80 Millionen Einwohner generiert,...

Pünktlich zu den Klimaverhandlungen in Paris haben große Brände in Indonesien die Bedeutung der Regenwälder für den Klimaschutz wieder in den Fokus

In most developing countries, politicians are mostly male, whose politics revolves around male household heads. The system does not stop women from voting, but politicians do not campaign directly for the female vote. A campaign run by a politician...

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...

Similar policies, if applied to different contexts, can have many different effects and a policy that has proven successful in one context does not automatically have to be as successful in another context.

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