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Research Grant Extended: Kiel Research Project on Environmental Impact of Global Producers in China

31st July 2025

KCG Secretary

In recent years, marked by growing economic tensions and geopolitical conflicts, foreign direct investment (FDI) in individual—often authoritarian—countries such as China has come under increasing scrutiny. At the same time, China as one of the world’s most attractive destinations for FDI in the past decades, is nowadays the largest emitter of Carbon dioxide (CO2)[...]

New Project on Global Affiliate Structure of German Firms and their Resilience against Shocks

18th July 2025

KCG Secretary

Container Ship Parade moored in Harbor

For decades, the world experienced extensive trade liberalization and deepening globalization, during which firms built and expanded their global production networks. However, this trend began to reverse following the 2008 financial crisis, as national policies have increasingly shifted toward protectionism. This trend has been further intensified due to natural disasters, climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic, and, particularly, geopolitical events such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the rising tensions between the US and China[...]

New Policy Brief on Significance and Policy Implications of EU-U.S. Services Trade

17th July 2025

KCG Secretary

Trade in services is an important component of international trade and is becoming increasingly more important with growth rates exceeding the rates with which goods trade increases. This is also true in the bilateral U.S. – EU relationship: Trade in services, and especially trade in digitally deliverable services, is a highly important element of the economic relations between the U.S. and the EU. And it is growing much faster than goods trade between the two economies. Despite its importance, trade in services has received much less attention in political and public discussions on the transatlantic trade relationship[...]

Special Economic Zones Policies Contribute to Urbanization and Inclusive Growth in Africa

1st July 2025

KCG Secretary

Fishing boats on the shore of Cape Coast, Ghana

There has been an increasing number of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in Africa since the early 1990s. While there were only around 20 SEZs in the early 1990s in Africa, the number amounted to more than 200 zones all over Africa in 2021. These zones are established to “promote local economic development and reduce regional disparities” (Abagna et al., 2025: 1). In policy debates and academic research, little attention has been paid so far to the impact of SEZ on the households’ welfare development in Africa[...]

RETHINK-GSC: Policy Proposal to Mitigate Threats to Knowledge Spillovers through Global Supply Chains

23rd June 2025

KCG Secretary

For economic development and innovation, knowledge transfer and spillovers are essential. Knowledge transfer and spillovers occur not only locally but also through global supply chains (GSC) and thus can benefit stakeholders and countries involved in the supply chains globally[...]

Kiel Research Project on Global Producers in China and their Impact on Environment

5th May 2025

KCG Secretary

Global shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have led to supply shortages of various critical products, heightening concerns about the reliability of global value chains (GVCs) and the risks of excessive economic dependence on individual, often authoritarian, countries like China[...]

KCG Involved in a New Large-scale Research Project on Global Supply Chains

5th December 2022

KCG Secretary

A research team at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy led by Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D. (Acting President at the Kiel Institute and KCG Managing Director) has received a new grant of almost three million euros from the EU’s Horizon Europe Program for a major EU research project: “Rethinking Global Supply Chains: Measurement, Impact and Policy (RETHINK-GSC)”. KCG (external) researchers, Prof. Dr. Julian Hinz, Saskia Meuchelböck and Dr. Birgit Meyer, are also involved in the project[...]

Coffee Development Report 2020 on the Coffee GVC is now Online Accessible

2nd February 2021

KCG Secretary

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The Coffee Development Report 2020 (CDR 2020) “The Value of Coffee: Sustainability, Inclusiveness, and Resilience of the Coffee Global Value Chain (GVC)” was released on Jan. 28, 2021 by the International Coffee Organization (ICO). The CDR 2020 gathers up-to-date research insights into the evolution of the international coffee trade, the key drivers of the development of the coffee GVC, and its economic, social and environmental impacts[...]

Welcome to Join the Launch of the Coffee Development Report 2020 on January 28, 2021

25th January 2021

KCG Secretary

Save the date, the Value of Coffee

For many, it is hard to imagine to start a day without coffee. But who and which countries actually have benefitted more from the global coffee production and consumption? How has global coffee trade developed over the past decades?[...]

A New KCG Paper on Foreign Trade and Sustainable Business Practices in Ghana is Published Today

5th October 2020

KCG Secretary

Foreign trade and sustainability is high on the political agenda. German and international policy-makers undertake increasing efforts to use trade policy more effectively for sustainable development purposes. A growing toolbox is meant to facilitate these policy aims, including sustainability chapters in trade agreements, sustainable value chains and sustainability standards. Meanwhile, scientific evidence on how trading activities impact on firms’ sustainable behaviour is limited[...]

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