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KCG members presented the KCG at the European Researchers’ Night in the Kiel Region

5th October 2017
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KCG PhD Researchers Guli-Sanam Karimova, Thilo Kroeger, Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich and KCG Deputy Coordinator Cecilia Hornok presented the KCG on September 29, 2017 at the European Researchers' Night in Plön. The European Researchers' Night is aimed at bringing together individuals, entrepreneurs, and scientists to communicate research to the broader public and is open to everyone interested in science.[…]

What We Learned from the Discussions at the UNIDO/KCG Conference

28th September 2017
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KCG managing director, Prof. Holger Görg, assessed the main lessons from the UNIDO/KCG conference in an interview article „Der Markt braucht den Staat” (Markets need the state), which appeared last week in the German daily Kieler Nachrichten.

The interview addressed the question as to how global value chains can be made more sustainable and inclusive. In particular, how smaller firms in less developed countries can be successfully integrated in the global production networks and how this can be achived also for the benefit of their[…]

Scientific Advisory Board discussed progress of KCG

21st September 2017
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The first meeting of the KCG Scientific Advisory Board took place in Kiel on the 19th of September 2017. The four board members – Timothy Devinney (Leeds University Business School), Beata S. Javorcik (Oxford University), John Martin (UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy) and Frances Ruane (Trinity College Dublin) – have been informed by KCG members about KCG’s progress in research and policy consulting activities since its start and about its future plans[…]

Marion Jansen gives a seminar on “The Use of Economics in International Trade and Investment Disputes”

7th September 2017
KCG Secretary
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We are happy to announce that Marion Jansen, Chief Economist of the Geneva-based International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, will give a seminar in Kiel on the 20th of September 2017. Ms Jansen will talk about issues related to international economic dispute settlements and the role economists can play in addressing them. The seminar is based on the recently published book “The Use of Economics in International Trade and Investment Disputes” (eds M. Jansen, J. Pauwelyn, T. Carpenter, Cambridge University Press, 2017). More information on the seminar can be found here.[…]

UNIDO/KCG Conference Flyer Available Online

18th August 2017
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In one month the UNIDO/KCG Conference “Developing Inclusive and Sustainable Global Value Chains in the Digital Age” will take place at the Kieler Kaufmann Hotel in Kiel. With the Conference approaching, more and more information about the Conference, including its background, program, speakers and sessions, will be prepared and provided to the participants, interested stakeholders and the general public in due course. Related documents will be gradually made available on the UNIDO/KCG Conference Website as well[…]

Low-income Countries are No Longer at the Losing End of the Competition for FDI

10th August 2017
KCG Secretary
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) “brings with it not only resources, but technology, access to markets, and (hopefully) valuable training, an improvement in human capital” (Stiglitz 2000: 1076). Thus, FDI has been widely recognised as being advantageous for helping integrate individuals, firms and countries into global value chains and therefore as being an important driver for sustained economic growth. Since the early 1990s UNCTAD has observed that the vast majority of policy measures relating to the entry and establishment of foreign investors aim at liberalizing and promoting FDI inflows, rather than restricting and regulating them[…]