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Heidbrink Emphasizes the key Relevance of Self-Responsibility for Dealing with Climate Challenges

12th December 2019
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On Dec. 11, 2019 Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the EU Commission, announced the European Green Deal, a roadmap with actions aiming at making Europe climate-neutral by 2050. In so doing, it should also be able to further support the economic development, provide better care for nature, improve the quality of life and encourage social inclusion at the same time. The EU Commission thus plans to present the first European Climate Law within 100 days[...]

The 2019 Forum on Globalization and Industrialization Successfully Took Place in Vienna

5th December 2019
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As part of a multi-year cooperation between the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) and KCG, the 2019 Forum on Globalization and Industrialization (FGI) “The Future of Global Value Chains (GVCs): How the Fourth Industrial Revolution is Changing Global Production Networks” took place on November 19, 2019 at the UNIDO Headquarters in Vienna. The 2019 FGI brought together around 100 policymakers[...]

Wan-Hsin Liu Gave an Interview on China’ Investment in Europe and on Huawei in 5G Networks

3rd December 2019
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With its economic reforms for decades, China is now the second largest economy in the world. Since the turn of the new century, the Chinese government has increasingly encouraged Chinese firms to go out and invest abroad. A strong increase in Chinese firms’ investment engagement abroad can be observed particularly after the financial crisis 2008/2009. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of China proposed by its President Xi Jinping in 2013 that mainly aims at improving connectivity between China/Asia and Europe through investing in large-scale infrastructure projects[...]

Finn Ole Semrau on the Need for Implementing SDGs in a Recent Citizen Dialogue

28th November 2019
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Eliminating global extreme poverty and limiting the temperature increase of climate change are long-term challenges for all. These challenges are not limited to the national boundary. Thus global governance is required in bringing individual and national efforts together to deal with them efficiently. Accordingly, in the framework of the United Nations[...]

Best Paper Award to KCG Research on Global Standards and Philosophy of Consumption

26th November 2019
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A recent KCG paper titled “Global Standards and Philosophy of Consumption: Towards Consumer-driven Governance of Global Value Chains", co-authored by Guli-Sanam Karimova (KCG Fellow), Prof. Dr. Ludger Heidbrink (KCG Co-Head), and Prof. Dr. Johannes Brinkmann (BI Norwegian Business School & KCG External Research Fellow) received the Patrick Primeux Best Paper Award 2019 at the 26th International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference (IVBEC) on October 24-26, 2019 in Dublin[...]

KCG Researchers Gave Presentations at the Annual Conference of the European Trade Study Group

11th November 2019
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KCG’s thematic focus has been to work on an interdisciplinary research agenda that evaluates the proliferation of global value chains (GVCs) as an important aspect of globalization. As a matter of course, trade and related research issues belong to KCG’s priority research topics. To share the research insights obtained and exchange knowledge with other trade experts, KCG researchers actively attended international trade workshops and conferences, incl. the Annual Conference of the European Trade Study Group (ETSG) – one of the large-scale trade conferences worldwide. The ETSG Conference provides a forum for discussion and research on international trade and attracts economists and experts interested in trade related issues from universities and research institutes over the world[...]

KCG Research: Active Engagement of MNEs Matters for Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa

5th November 2019
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Economic research has provided evidence showing that developing countries’ integration into global value chains is highly advantageous for encouraging their economic and social development over time. Events in practice such as Rana Plaza Collapse in 2013 showed, however, that the benefits of globalization may be realized (partially) at the cost of labour welfare and environmental sustainability on site. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) from economically more advanced countries have been often criticized for focusing on maximizing their profits only and thus ignoring their social responsibility while investing in and/or doing business with firms in the developing countries[...]