Ludger Heidbrink and Guli-Sanam Karimova Joined National Conference on Sustainable Consumption in Berlin

30th March 2017
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National Conference on Sustainable Consumption initiated by the German Federal Government took place on March 23rd in Berlin. The Conference aimed at encouraging public discussions among key stakeholders and experts from academia, NGOs, business and politics to collect valuable feedback and suggestions for the newly adopted National Program on Sustainable Consumption in Germany. Ludger Heidbrink and Guli-Sanam Karimova joined the conference to gain more insights into the topic of sustainable consumption that is relevant for a current KCG research project […]

Holger Görg as Panellist at the Upcoming OECD Global Forum on International Investment

2nd March 2017
KCG Secretary
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The OECD Global Forum on International Investment (OECD-GFII) 2017 with the overarching topic “Addressing the Challenges of Globalization: Towards a Society-centred Investment Policy Agenda” is going to take place on March 6th at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris, France. Holger Görg, Managing Director of the KCG, will act as a panellist in the session “Towards an Investment Policy Agenda that Supports Inclusive Globalization” to share his views and discuss with other experts in the field about a potential research and policy agenda in support of the development and implementation of a more inclusive international investment policy in the long term. […]

Opening up Markets and the Role of International Investment Agreements

23rd February 2017
KCG Secretary
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As introduced in the KCG news of Feb. 16, 2017, a recent KCG Policy Paper proposes evidence-based strategies that are highly relevant for particularly developing economies to attract quality FDI (foreign direct investment). Among the strategies proposed, the authors emphasised the key relevance of market opening in this regard. Developing countries should try to “reduce restrictions on FDI and provide open. […]

KCG Policy Paper No.2: How to Attract Quality FDI?

14th February 2017
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Authors: Theodore H. Moran, Holger Görg, Adnan Seric and Christiane Krieger‐Boden

Foreign direct investment in developing countries has got a bad reputation in some popular discussions where it is set tantamount to first world’s postcolonial exploitation of the raw materials and cheap labour from the third world, associated with pictures of leaking oil fields and collapsing factories. While this does happen, data show that FDI[…]

Key Relevance of Global Supply Chains in Discussing whether Globalization is Good or not

9th February 2017
KCG Secretary
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Is globalization good or not? This question has already attracted much attention worldwide with the intensifying globalization during the past decades. Undoubtedly, different economic agents, decision makers and governments from different countries may have strongly different answers to this seemingly simple question. This question turns, however, to be answered in a very simple and provocative way for political purposes over the last year, as did, for example, by Donald Trump on his way to the U.S. Presidency. His belief in globalization doing more harm than good to the U.S. economy induced him to stop ongoing discussions on trade agreements such as TPP and TTIP with different partners in the world[…]