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80: Past, present and future of innovation agencies in Europe

Rainer Kattel

79: Active labor market policies in the framework of Just Transition Programs: the case of Italy, Spain, and Germany

Valeria Cirillo, Marialuisa Divella, Eustachio Ferrulli and Lidia Greco

78: Industrial policy, progressive derisking, and the financing of Europe's green transition

Viktor Skyrman

77: Assessing EU energy resilience and vulnerabilities: Concepts, empirical evidence and policy strategies

Dario Guarascio, Jelena Reljic and Francesco Zezza

76: International climate finance from a global perspective

Sherri Ombuya, Igor Shishlov and Axel Michaelowa

75: Price-determination and -setting in global production networks of critical minerals: The London Metal Exchange, price reporting agencies and digital trading platforms

Aleksandra Wojewska, Cornelia Staritz and Bernhard Tröster

74: Price-making in mineral provisioning systems and social-ecological transformation? The cases of copper, cobalt and lithium

Cornelia Staritz, Bernhard Tröster and Aleksandra Wojewska

73: The role of social dialogue in the transfer of the dual system of vocational education and training: The case of Serbia

Margarita Langthaler and Proloeng Top

72: Monopolmacht und Wettbewerbspolitik als Countervailing Power in globalen Warenketten

Christian Reiner

71: The criticality of lithium and the sustainability-finance nexus: Supply-demand perceptions, state policies, production networks, and financial actors

Aleksandra Wojewska, Cornelia Staritz, Bernhard Tröster and Luisa Leisenheimer

70: Understanding commodity markets to effectively address price increases and volatility in a post-COVID-19 world

Susan Newman and Sophie van Huellen

69: Lieferengpässe in Österreich? Globale Warenketten von Medizinprodukten während der COVID-19 Pandemie

Christian Reiner, Jan Grumiller and Hannes Grohs

68: Trading for speculators: The role of physical actors in the financialization of coffee, cocoa and cotton value chains

Bernhard Tröster and Ulrich Gunter

67: Migrant and refugee students from the Global South at Austrian universities: A typology for targeted support

Judith Kohlenberger, Theresa Herzog and Tobias Schnitzler

66: Education and empowerment: Voices from Ugandan youth

Simone Datzberger

65: Development in the Global South at risk: Economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries

Gabriele Tondl

64: A conceptual approach to vocational training in fragile contexts - bridging education and economic development: Inspired by a scoping mission to Somalia

Stefan Wolf and Nicole Rudner

63: The role of sustainability living labs in understanding food-water-energy nexus challenges and solutions in India and Jordan

Karin Küblböck, Ines Omann, Hannes Grohs, Raphael Karutz, Christian Klassert, Bernd Klauer, Yuanzao Zhu, Heinrich Zozmann, Mikhail Smilovic and Steven Gorelick

62: Commodity dependence, global commodity chains, price volatility and financialisation: Price-setting and stabilisation in the cocoa sectors in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana

Bernhard Tröster, Cornelia Staritz, Jan Grumiller and Felix Maile

61: Towards an institutional setup for industrial policy in late industrialization in the 21st century

Jan Grumiller and Werner G. Raza

60: A strategic-relational approach to analyzing industrial policy regimes within global production networks: The Ethiopian Leather and Leather Products Sector

Jan Grumiller

59: Harnessing foreign direct investment for local development? Spillovers in apparel global value chains in sub-Saharan Africa

Cornelia Staritz and Stacey Frederick

58: Labour rights in Peru and the EU trade agreement: Compliance with the commitments under the sustainable development chapter

Jan Orbie and Lore Van den Putte

57: Modelling the impacts of trade on employment and development: A structuralist CGE-model for the analysis of TTIP and other trade agreements

Werner Raza, Lance Taylor, Bernhard Tröster and Rudiger von Arnim

56: Global commodity chains, financial markets, and local market structures: Price risks in the coffee sector in Ethiopia

Bernhard Tröster

55: Financialization, price risks, and global commodity chains: Distributional implications on cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cornelia Staritz, Susan Newman, Bernhard Tröster and Leonhard Plank

54: Cotton-based development in Sub-Saharan Africa? Global commodity chains, national market structure and development outcomes in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Tanzania

Cornelia Staritz and Bernhard Tröster

53: The transfer of the Austrian dual system of vocational education to transition and developing countries: An analysis from a developmental perspective

Margarita Langthaler

52: Commodity dependence and price volatility in least developed countries: A structuralist computable general equilibrium model with applications to Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Mozambique

Rudiger von Arnim, Bernhard Tröster, Cornelia Staritz and Werner Raza

51: Private sector development: Business plan or development strategy?

Karin Küblböck and Cornelia Staritz

50: Global competition, institutional context, and regional production networks: Up- and downgrading experiences in Romania's apparel industry

Leonhard Plank and Cornelia Staritz

49: Living up to Policy Coherence for Development? The OECD's disciplines on tied aid financing

Livia Fritz and Werner Raza

48: Soft loans as an instrument of development finance: A comparative assessment and options for the future

Livia Fritz and Werner Raza

47: South Africa's post-apartheid microcredit-driven calamity: Comparing 'developmental' to 'anti-developmental' local financial models

Milford Bateman

46: Regionalism, end markets and ownership matter: Shifting dynamics in the apparel export industry in Sub Saharan Africa

Mike Morris, Cornelia Staritz and Leonhard Plank

45: Re-regulation of commodity derivative markets: Critical assessment of current reform proposals in the EU and the US

Cornelia Staritz and Karin Küblböck

44: Financialisation and the microstructure of commodity markets: A qualitative investigation of trading strategies of financial investors and commercial traders

Christine Heumesser and Cornelia Staritz

43: Fundamentals or financialisation of commodity markets: What determines recent wheat prices?

Bernhard Troester and Cornelia Staritz

42: The role of fundamentals and financialisation in recent commodity price developments: An empirical analysis for wheat, coffee, cotton, and oil

Stefan Ederer, Christine Heumesser and Cornelia Staritz

41: "Precarious upgrading" in electronics global production networks in Central and Eastern Europe: The cases of Hungary and Romania

Leonhard Plank and Cornelia Staritz

40: Social due diligence in the Austrian export promotion procedure: Recommendations for implementing the revised OECD "Common Approaches for Officially Supported Export Credits and Environmental and Social Due Diligence" as adopted on 28 June 2012

Fabiane Baxewanos and Werner Raza

39: The age of microfinance: Destroying Latin American economies from the bottom up

Milford Bateman

38: Local embeddedness and economic and social upgrading in Madagascar's export apparel industry

Cornelia Staritz and Mike Morris

37: Human rights impact assessments as a new tool for development policy?

Fabiane Baxewanos and Werner Raza

36: The contribution of the microfinance model to Bosnia's post-war reconstruction and development: How to destroy an economy and society without really trying

Milford Bateman, Dean Sinković and Marinko Skare

35: The conceptual flaws of the new EU development agenda from a political economy perspective, or why change is problematic for a donor-driven development policy

Simon Hartmann

34: Apparel exports - still a path for industrial development? Dynamics in apparel global value chains and implications for low-income countries

Cornelia Staritz

33: Workers and social upgrading in "fast fashion": The case of the apparel industry in Morocco and Romania

Leonhard Plank, Arianna Rossi and Cornelia Staritz

32: Local embeddedness, upgrading, and skill development: Global value chains and foreign direct investment in Lesotho's apparel industry

Cornelia Staritz and Mike Morris

31: Value chains for development? Potentials and limitations of global value chain approaches in donor interventions

Cornelia Staritz