DIIS hosted two seminars, one on Industrial Policy on the Rise with Robert Wade and Ha-Joon Chang and the second on 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang

28 January 2011 | 'Bono's Global Fund' and Corruption

DIIS Comment by Stefano Ponte and Lisa Ann Richey

27 January 2011 | Is the future of Côte d’Ivoire being decided in Minneapolis?

DIIS Comment by Stefano Ponte

20 January 2011 | Financial Transaction Tax

A Financial Transaction Tax could potentially generate revenues and stabilize markets

19 January 2011 | Do value chain interventions work?

A new working paper explains what works and what does not, where and how

12 November 2010 | The financial crisis and lower income countries

Synthesis Working Paper on findings from conference at DIIS, October 2010

12 November 2010 | G20 - splittet, udemokratisk og ineffektivt. Giv os multilateralismen tilbage!

DIIS Comment af Jakob Vestergaard

11 November 2010 | After the Meltdown – The Future of Capitalism and Globalization in the Age of the Twin Crisis

Global Economy Monday seminar on Marc De Vos' new book, on the long term consequences of the Crisis on globalisation.

9 November 2010 | Important about RSS feeds

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22 October 2010 | Overhaul the G20 for the sake of the G172

Article in the Financial Times by Robert Wade and Jakob Vestergaard

13 October 2010 | Asia’s Long-term Growth and Development Prospects

Global Economy Monday seminar on the future growth in Asia and what challenges and prospects it faces

8 October 2010 | Final SAFE PhD Candidate Successfully Defends Thesis

DIIS-SUA Research and Capacity Building Programme Completed

5 October 2010 | Europe losing influence in the IMF

DIIS Comment by Robert Wade and Jakob Vestergaard

5 October 2010 | The Financial Crisis and Development: Impacts, Responses and Lessons

DIIS hosted an international conference on the Financial Crisis and its Impact on Low Income Countries with a discussion of the responses from LIC and initial lessons to be learned.

21 September 2010 | Environmental Goods and Services Negotiations at the WTO

Lessons from multilateral environmental agreements and ecolabels for breaking the impasse

13 September 2010 | Nothing is more political than accounting

DIIS seminar on how to combat tax avoidance by multinational corporations

17 August 2010 | Behaviour and Measurement

Key insights from the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 2010, Stockolm

12 August 2010 | Carbon Footprints, Trade and Development

DIIS seminar sheds light on the carbon agenda

11 August 2010 | Donors and Agro-food standards

The impact of donor activities on standards has been limited

8 July 2010 | Gender and Value Chain Development

A study for the Evaluation Department of DANIDA

24 June 2010 | Financial crisis: banking lobbies are still in control

G20 should not waste their chance to take over the agenda

17 June 2010 | Standards affect agro-food exports from Africa

Main findings of book and final conference of SAFE research and capacity building program

19 May 2010 | International Banking Regulation Returning to Business as Usual

Seminar with Ranjit Lall from the Bank of England on the prospects of banking reform

19 May 2010 | Jon Mortensen awarded the PhD degree from University of Copenhagen

On 12 April, he succesfully defended his thesis on international trade in health services

9 April 2010 | Rethinking the World Bank

Presentations by Prof. Robert Wade and Prof. Woods now available in audio files

9 March 2010 | Impacts, Responses & Initial Lessons of the Financial Crises for Low Income Countries

Call for papers

18 February 2010 | I orkanens øje

Erfaringer fra og løsninger på den globale finansielle krise

10 February 2010 | Integrating poverty and environmental concerns in value-chain analysis

Two articles by DIIS researchers published in Development Policy Review

25 January 2010 | The story of the financial crisis - and not knowing what to do

Seminar on banking reform at DIIS last week

19 January 2010 | Provocative lecture on China’s growth strategy and the precarious state of the world economy

French economist Robert Boyer visits DIIS

18 January 2010 | The Globalization of Food

Stefano Ponte contributes a chapter to this new book

3 December 2009 | IMF er godt i gang med at tabe slaget om fremtiden

DIIS Comment af Jakob Vestergaard

26 November 2009 | New Ph.d. candidate started in November on 'Sustaining Ethical Aquaculture Trade' (SEAT)

Kaspar Nielsen will analyze the sustainability of aquatic food value chains in Asia.

25 November 2009 | African Affairs

Stefano Ponte is appointed to the Editorial Board

16 November 2009 | G20 countries have made very little progress in financial reform

DIIS Policy Brief outlines comprehensive approach to effective financial regulation

13 November 2009 | Understanding China's Economic Diplomacy

DIIS seminar challenged the myth of China being a unitary actor

12 November 2009 | Obama goes to China: But US economic diplomacy is unlikely to succeed

DIIS Comment by Jakob Vestergaard

6 November 2009 | Tax evasion practices stand in the way of Millennium Goals

DIIS Policy Brief calls for multilateral efforts to combat illicit financial flows from poor countries

29 October 2009 | Regnskabets time for mikrolån

Forskningsassistent skriver om mikrofinansbevægelsens fremtid

29 October 2009 | Unprecedented cooperation leads to rebalancing of global economy

DIIS seminar on financial crisis governance and beyond

21 October 2009 | From Fishery to Fork

New article on food safety and sustainability by Stefano Ponte in 'Science as Culture'

29 September 2009 | 'Trading Up' documentary on BBC World Service

Two East African countries have built billion dollar businesses from small-scale suppliers

28 September 2009 | Governing through standards - an international symposium

Extended deadline - call for abstracts

23 September 2009 | The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark launches Foreign Policy Award

Write a paper on the financial crisis and win 15.000 DKK

22 September 2009 | Reforming the Bretton Woods Institutions

Steps towards a more stable and equitable global financial system

8 July 2009 | Reforming the Bretton Woods institutions - extended deadline

Conference call

7 July 2009 | How the market for standards shapes competition in the market for goods

Sustainability standards in the cut flower industry

25 June 2009 | Two articles by DIIS researchers in the 'Top 25 Hottest Articles' in World Development

Ranking by ScienceDirect

18 June 2009 | Governing through quality

Research from the SAFE programme published in Sociologia Ruralis by Stefano Ponte

3 June 2009 | "Give me an economist and I will raise the market!"

Are financial markets really embedded in economics rather than society?

2 June 2009 | EU Food Safety law as a major barrier to developing country exports

New SAFE programme working paper

19 May 2009 | DIIS awarded Initiative Grant from FFU

Inter-locked crises, competing value chains and food security in Africa

15 May 2009 | Conformity to EU organic standards raises African smallholders' incomes

SAFE programme study published in World Development

5 May 2009 | Global Economy Monday seminar series

Revision of spring programme 2009

1 May 2009 | Alternative development financing mechanisms for poverty reduction

DIIS Report analyses pre-crisis trends and post-crisis outlook

30 April 2009 | Contract farming for organic cocoa benefits Ugandan smallholders

New SAFE programme working paper

30 April 2009 | Store danske virksomheder har fået størst gavn af Danida-program i Indien

DIIS-undersøgelse af Danidas privatsektorprogram i Indien v./ Steen Folke

30 April 2009 | Critical ex-post study of Danida’s Private Sector Programme in India

Limited benefits to Indian firms - main beneficiaries large Danish firms

29 April 2009 | A Refreshing Perspective on International Finance

'Discipline in the Global Economy' reviewed

28 April 2009 | Where Next for International Financial Regulation?

Dominant response overlooks fundamental questions, says Jan Toporowski

8 April 2009 | Where Next for International Financial Regulation?

Presentation by Richard Werner

31 March 2009 | Kys krisen

Tre hurtige spørgsmål-svar om finans-krisen

24 March 2009 | DIIS Researcher at a Round Table for Global Governance

Jakob Vestergaard at the City University of London

24 March 2009 | Professor Robert Wade reviews book by DIIS researcher

A review of ‘Discipline in the Global Economy?' by Jakob Vestergaard

18 March 2009 | Development finance to Mozambique: no room for complacency

Major reductions in aid necessitate significant fiscal and economic adjustments

9 March 2009 | Achieving sustainability in the Sahel after the era of desertification

New DIIS Report challenges conventional wisdom on natural resource management in the Sahel

5 March 2009 | 'More Heat than Light': On the Regulation of International Finance

Short essay by Jakob Vestergaard

4 March 2009 | Differentiated private sector development and business organization in Vietnam

A segmentation of Vietnam’s private sector affects firms and the country’s economy

4 March 2009 | Bono's Product (RED) Initiative

New article in Third World Quarterly

28 January 2009 | Global Value Chains, Labor Organization and Private Social Standards

Lessons from East African Cut Flower Industries

20 January 2009 | New research programme

DIIS is awarded DKK 1.8 million under a new research programme financed by the EU's FP7

16 January 2009 | DIIS as a springboard for young researchers

PhDs and post-docs from the 'Trade and development' group find employment in research

19 December 2008 | New book: Discipline in the Global Economy? International Finance & the End of Liberalism

This book, published with Routledge, is now released and available at Amazon

18 December 2008 | Finanskrisen: Hvorfor de gamle løsninger ikke er nok

RÆSON #4 er på gaden - blandt andet med en artikel af projektforsker Jakob Vestergaard

9 December 2008 | The policy implications of standards in agro-food exports

A series of Policy Briefs from the SAFE research programme now available

5 December 2008 | Does organic agriculture pay for Tanzanian farmers?

New SAFE Programme Working Paper by DIIS-SUA PhD student

20 November 2008 | Understanding the global financial crisis

Three working papers now available!

18 November 2008 | Climate change

DIIS activities related to climate change

7 November 2008 | Understanding the global financial crisis - seminar

Presentations now available!

21 October 2008 | Hvad skal der til for at øge Afrikas deltagelse i international handel?

DIIS forskere analyserer og giver et bud i Politiken

3 October 2008 | Globalization and Restructuring of African Commodity Flows

Several present and past DIIS researchers contribute chapters to a new NAI book

3 October 2008 | No need to work against the tide

Two new Policy Briefs discuss brain drain and the role of diasporas in fragile situations

30 September 2008 | Amin Alavi's PhD about to be published

Legalization of Development in the WTO: Between Law and Politics

25 September 2008 | Transparency and accountability are central in support to fragile situations

Two new Policy Briefs discuss international companies and natural resource exploitation

18 September 2008 | Localizing Private Social Standards: Standard Initiatives in Kenyan Cut Flowers

New DIIS Working Paper by Lone Riisgaard

2 September 2008 | Tanzanian members of SAFE program visit Copenhagen

22 August 2008 | Gammel filantropi i nye klæder

Artikel i Information, 21. august 2008

22 August 2008 | Lessons from value chain analysis for chronic poverty research

New Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) Working Paper by Stefano Ponte

18 August 2008 | The Return of Non-DAC Donors to Africa: New Prospects for African Development

New article by Peter Kragelund, Development Policy Review, Vol. 26 (5): 555-584

10 July 2008 | South Africa’s Medical Brain Drain: Myths, Facts and What (Not) To Do

New DIIS Working Paper by Jon Mortensen

8 July 2008 | New project researcher in Trade and Development

Jakob Vestergaard, PhD

8 July 2008 | Governance of Global Value Chains

DIIS researchers edit Economy & Society special edition

4 July 2008 | A Strategic Framework and Toolbox for Action Research with Small Producers in Value Chains

New DIIS Working Paper

3 July 2008 | Integrating Poverty, Gender and Environmental Concerns into Value Chain Analysis

A Conceptual Framework and Lessons for Action Research

3 July 2008 | New DIIS Working Paper on EU trade Rules of Origin

EU relaxes Cotonou rules in EPAs but retains restrictive GSP rules

20 June 2008 | DIIS Evaluation of Swiss aid to Angola published

First ever independent evaluation of SDC's humanitarian aid

13 June 2008 | Transfer of climate friendly technology to developing countries

New report about implications of patents for technology transfer

3 June 2008 | TRIPs, Medicines and the International Pharmaceutical Industry

PhD defence by Stine Jessen Haakonsson

2 June 2008 | Sub-saharan Africa and the resource curse

A critical look

27 May 2008 | Etiske standarder diskriminerer

Analyse bragt i Information 22. Maj

26 May 2008 | Bono's Product (RED) initiative: Wedding hard commerce and corporate social responsibility

New Working Paper by Stefano Ponte, Lisa Ann Richey and Mike Baab

23 May 2008 | Emerging Multinationals: The South African Hospital Industry Overseas

New DIIS working paper by Jon Mortensen

23 May 2008 | International Trade in Health Services – Assessing the Trade and the Trade-offs

New DIIS working paper by Jon Mortensen

20 May 2008 | Celebrities, consumption and international aid

New article in Third World Quarterly by Lisa Ann Richey and Stefano Ponte

13 May 2008 | EPZs – at best, second best options

Study shows that the results have been generally disappointing

29 April 2008 | Institutional capacity for standards conformity assessment

New Working Paper by Adam Akyoo and Evelyne Lazaro

17 April 2008 | Organised Labour and the Social Regulation of Global Value Chains

Working Paper by Lone Riisgaard and Nikolaus Hammer

11 April 2008 | Climate – one of the next big trade issues

Conference on WTO - Trade and Climate, arranged by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

3 April 2008 | Gavner hjerneflugt ulandes sundhedssystemer?

Jon Mortensen kommenterer i dagbladet Information

7 March 2008 | New Working Paper from the SAFE research and capacity building programme

Sustainability standards and coffee exports from Tanzania

3 March 2008 | Afrika: en ny investesteringsfrontløber?

Sam Jones i dagbladet Information, torsdag den 28. februar

8 February 2008 | EPA: Er det kun tom snak?

Peter Gibbon og Stefano Ponte i Dagbladet Information, 7. februar 2008

29 January 2008 | Le paradoxe du café

Book by Benoit Daviron and Stefano Ponte now available in French

28 January 2008 | Workshop on 'Standards and Agro-Food Exports' (SAFE)

The SAFE Research and Capacity Building Programme holds its 2nd Workshop in Tanzania

28 January 2008 | Are Ecolabels Good for Developing Country Trade?

New article by Stefano Ponte in World Development

24 January 2008 | Export Processing Zones as economic development instruments

Danish Foreign Ministry commissions study from the Trade and Development Unit

16 January 2008 | Sub-Saharan Africa and Global Capital Markets

Sam Jones on an evolving landscape for foreign aid in two DIIS publications

20 December 2007 | Innovativ finansiering af udvikling

Peter Kragelund vurderer nye forslag til finansiering af 2015-målene i DIIS Working Paper

13 December 2007 | Afrika og EUs nye handelsaftaler. Jon Mortensen i P1 Morgen

EU og Afrika har i flere år forhandlet nye handelsaftaler, og deadline nærmer sig.

3 December 2007 | Amin Alavi will defend his PhD in International Relations

Studying Legalization: Special and Differential Treatments of Developing Countries ...

3 December 2007 | Economic Partnership Agreements with the EU - a dubious advantage for poor countries

DIIS/FOI study warns against substantial disadvantages in EPAs

3 December 2007 | Økonomisk partnerskab med EU - en tvivlsom fordel for udviklingslande

DIIS/FØI-studie advarer om betydelige forringelser for udviklingslande ved EPA-aftaler

7 November 2007 | Evaluering af UNDPs globale program

DIIS forsker udpeget som team leader.

25 October 2007 | phd-forsvar Amin Alavi

Amin Alavi forsvarer sin phd den 6. december 2007

20 October 2007 | DIIS are organizing a workshop in Cape Town 24-25 October

DIIS are organizing a workshop in Cape Town to present their current study on value-chain analysis

4 October 2007 | Study on possible ban on airfreight of organic produce

Study carried out for ITC, Geneva

15 September 2007 | Study on EU-ACP partnership agreements

DIIS and the Food Economics Institute completed a joint study

11 September 2007 | Sam Jones joins the research unit Trade and Development

As of 1 September Sam Jones replaces Trine Thygesen

30 August 2007 | Visiting researchers from Tanzania

Three senior staff from the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agri-business, Sokoine University of Agriculture, will be staying with the Research Group on Trade and Development at DIIS from 26/8 to 6/10.

17 August 2007 | Morten Broberg joins the research unit Trade and Development

As of 1 August 2007 Morten Broberg has joined the research unit Trade and Development where he will be working on a project on the European Union’s regulation in the field of food safety.

9 May 2007 | Stefano Ponte interviewed in BBC World Service programme

Stefano Ponte, a Senior Researcher at DIIS, is featured in a BBC World Service radio documentary that is being broadcast in May

24 April 2007 | Developing Countries, WTO and Its Dispute Settlement Mechanism

Amin Alavi has submitted his Ph.D. thesis.

24 April 2007 | Report (redegørelse) on EU’s Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the ACP countries

Amin Alavi, Peter Gibbon, Jon Mortensen and Mette Ekeroth are engaged in research for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the EU trade agreements with developing countries

24 April 2007 | Evaluering af UNDP’s regionale program i Asien-Pacific

Meta-evaluering af seniorforsker Steen Folke

21 March 2007 | 'Black Economic Empowerment' i Sydafrika - Stefano Pontes analyse i Information

Resultaterne af Sydafrikas bestræbelser på at overvinde den økonomiske ulighed fra apartheidtidens diskriminationsarv er ikke prangende. Indslusningen af sorte sydafrikanere på arbejdsmarked og i erhvervsliv gennem såkaldte selvstændiggørelsesprogrammer har ikke fungeret efter hensigten.

21 February 2007 | PhD Defence: 'Supplier Entry Barriers to Global Value Chains for Clothing ...'

Lotte Thomsen (Trade and Development DIIS and Department of Geography, Copenhagen University): Supplier Entry Barriers to Global Value Chains for clothing: The Role of Business-State Relations in Vietnam and of Lead Firm Strategies in Europe

19 February 2007 | Starbucks vs. Etiopien - Stefano Pontes analyse i Information

Intellektuel ejendomsret er et af de grundlæggende pricipper bag WTO. Men et slagsmål mellem Etiopien og kaffe-giganten Starbucks om navnerettigheder viser, at loven ikke er lige for alle.

9 February 2007 | Prisen på medicin skal op i Indien

Kommentar af phd-studerende Stine Jessen Haakonsson (fra Handel og Udvikling) i Nyt om Miljø og Udvikling (92-Gruppens Nyhedsbrev)

22 January 2007 | Africa and the WTO Doha Round: Theme issue of DPR by DIIS researchers

Michael Friis Jensen and Peter Gibbon (editors) and Amin Alavi, Stine Jessen Haakonsson and Stefano Ponte from the Trade and development research unit have published a thematic issue of Development Policy Review

12 January 2007 | Hjerneflugt er ingen stor ulykke

Jon Mortensen, ph.d. studerende (Handel og Udvikling), kommenterer på migration af sundhedspersonale fra Afrika i Politiken den 11. januar 2007. Afrikas største sundhedsproblemer kan ikke løses af sundhedspersonale.

27 November 2006 | BEE will alter little for the wine industry's exploited majority

Review of Stefano Ponte's working paper in the South African wine homepage Grape

24 November 2006 | EU's regler for fødevaresikkerhed

Forskningsmidler bevilget af SFE

22 November 2006 | Exporting Health Care

22 November 2006 | Tralac Hotseat Comment

Jon Mortensen comments on the potential points of conflict between BEE and WTO rules.

16 November 2006 | Supply Entry Barriers to Global Value Chains for Clothing

Lotte Thomsen has finalized a Ph.d. thesis on Global Value Chains for clothes, and the roles of business-state relations in Vietnam and of lead firm strategies in Europe. The defense will take place in the beginning of 2007 at Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen.

20 October 2006 | Forthcoming special issue of Development Policy Review

Peter Gibbon and Michael Friis Jensen are guest editors of the Development Policy Review issue on ‘Africa in the WTO Doha Round’, coming out in January 2007

3 October 2006 | Hellere (RØD) end død - Lisa Richey og Stefano Pontes analyse i Information

Gør det gode og se godt ud på samme tid - det er opskriften på en ny type udviklingsbistand, der forener moderigtigt forbrug med hjælp til nødlidende

22 September 2006 | Guest researcher from Mumbai, Amit Rangnekar

From September 20 to October 3, Amit Rangnekar from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai visits the research unit. The purpose of his stay is to collaborate with Stine Jessen Haakonsson on research on the global pharmaceutical industry. The stay is funded by GEPPA and the W-Trade seminar series.

19 September 2006 | Benoit Daviron and Stefano Ponte: Book launch

On 25 September 2006, Stefano Ponte launches book at the International Coffee Organization

7 September 2006 | 7. September: TRALAC Working Paper on Ecolabels and fish trade

Senior researcher Stefano Ponte has published a working paper for Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa: “Ecolabels and fish trade: Marine Stewardship Council certification and the South African hake industry”

25 August 2006 | Steen Folke is doing fieldwork in India

In the period August 24 – September 27 Steen Folke carries out the first round of fieldwork in India for an ex-post impact study of Danida’s Private Sector Development Programme, 1993-2002.

14 August 2006 | Kan man handle sig vej ud af fattigdom?

Seniorforsker Stefano Ponte analyserer, hvordan udviklingslandene kan få gavn af handel. Læs artiklen bragt i Information den 11. august 2006.

7 August 2006 | Trine Rask Thygesen ny seniorrådgiver på DIIS

Cand.oecon. Trine Thygesen påbegyndte pr. 1. august som seniorrådgiver et toårigt projekt om finansiering af udvikling i Afrika.

1 August 2006 | Tanzanian Guest Researchers, August-October 2006

During the autumn 2006, four researchers from Tanzania visit the research unit. All are part of the capacity-building program on Standards and Agro-Food Exports from Developing Countries, SAFE

1 August 2006 | Study commissioned by Common Fund for Commodities

The Common Fund for Commodities has commissioned DIIS to carry out a study of current trends in international commodity trade and their implications for the development role of commodities.

1 August 2006 | Vi får en ny global handelsaftale - senere

Michael Friis Jensen kommenterer WTOs fremtid efter sammenbruddet i Doha-forhandlingerne. Han konkluderer, at Doharunden nok skal blive afsluttet en dag og giver et bud på indholdet. Læs kommentaren i Politiken...

28 July 2006 | Doha - død eller dvale? Artikel af Stefano Ponte i Information

Stefano Ponte analyserer dødvandet i Doha-rundens handelsforhandlinger i Information.

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