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Germany’s Path Forward: Building on Leading Edges to Counter China’s Challenges

24th March 2025
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China has made substantial economic progress during the last decades, shifting towards advanced manufacturing and technologies. Chinese firms in key sectors have received massive subsidies which enable them to produce at lower costs and to better compete in the global markets. One key example here is the car industry, particularly the production of electric vehicles (EVs)[...]

Görg on Trump’s blackmail strategy: “Then the trade order would be completely dead

3rd February 2025
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US President Donald Trump is imposing an additional 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% tariff on imports from China until the crises of illegal migration and drugs are alleviated. A week ago, President Trump also threatened to implement steep tariffs on imports from Colombia after the country barred deportation flights from landing. In the end, Colombia agreed to accept deported migrants, temporarily avoiding a trade war between the two countries[...]

Görg: Tariffs on electric vehicles from China will have significant negative impacts on the electrification transition of the European automotive industry

17th June 2024
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In October 2023, the European Commission initiated an anti-subsidy investigation on imports of battery electric vehicles from China. On June 12, 2024 the Commission provisionally concludes the “electric vehicle value chains in China benefit from unfair subsidies”[...]

Global China Conversation on Oct. 26: Diversification – Can India be an Alternative to China?

23rd October 2023
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The next Online Global China Conversation will take place on October 26, 2023 and will address India’s potential to become an alternative to China as an important sales and sourcing market for Germany and the EU.  An ageing population, structurally weaker growth in China and the general de-risking tone are turning all eyes to India: while China’s working-age population is shrinking, India’s will grow. Investors see the country’s relative economic autonomy as an opportunity to better hedge against the effects […]

Holger Görg commented on the initiative “India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor”

17th October 2023
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During the G20 summit in mid-September 2023 in New Delhi, the governments of India, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Italy, France, Germany, the European Union and the United States signed a Memorandum of Understanding, aiming to establish the India – Middle East – Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC). This is expected to improve and intensify the connectivity and economic integration between Asia, the Arabian Gulf, and Europe through railway and shipping networks. Shortly after the announcement […]

Aoife Hanley delivered in Berlin research results about Africa’s businesswomen and gender performance gap

9th October 2023
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On September 19, 2023, the Conference “Shaping Africa’s Future: Geopolitics. Business. Sustainability” took place in the AXICA Congress Centre in Berlin. This conference brought together people from policy, business, and academia from African and European countries, including KCG research fellows, to discuss the forces shaping Africa’s economic future. Prof. Aoife Hanley, Ph.D. (KCG, Kiel Institute and Kiel University; in the middle of the picture) delivered research results about Africa’s businesswomen. Her presentation “Africa’s businesswomen – underfunded or underperforming?” shared new […]

New Kiel Study on Firm Impact of Due Diligence EU Legislation

21st September 2023
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A new study “The cumulative effect of due diligence EU legislation on SMEs” requested by the INTA Committee from the European Parliament from the KCG researchers, Aoife Hanley, Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich, jointly with Rainer Thiele (Kiel Institute) is now published. The study addresses the expected impact of the EU’s Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)[...]

Open for conference registration: Advancing Sustainability of Critical Supply Chains in Developing Countries

18th September 2023
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On September 26 and 27, the Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains will organise a scientific conference “Advancing Sustainability of Critical Supply Chains in Developing Countries” at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (and online). This conference aims at discussing recent research related to sustainability in global supply chains, with a focus on impacts in developing countries[...]