Fair Globalisation
The status quo of the global economic order is often judged as unfair in terms of its distribution of benefits and burdens of international economic integration. The 2030 Agenda can provide a framework for conceptualizing a fairer globalization, which leads to substantive as well as institutional reforms of the Global Economic Governance with a view to improving the global common good. Against this background, the main research question of the project is as follows: How do we create a global economic order that contributes to achieving the objectives of the 2030 Agenda and thereby ensures a fairer and more inclusive globalisation?
Project Lead:
Kathrin Berensmann
Clara Brandi
Project Team:
Axel Berger
Hilbrich, Sören
Sabine Laudage Teles
Olekseyuk, Zoryana
Jakob Schwab
Christoph Sommer
Financing:
Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)
Time frame:
2018 - 2023
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ongoing
Project description
The 2030 Agenda – if properly operationalized – can provide a framework for conceptualizing a fairer globalization, which leads to substantive as well as institutional reforms of the Global Economic Governance with a view to improving the global common good. The status quo of the global economic order is perceived as unfair in terms of its distribution of benefits and burdens of international economic integration (between developing and developed countries and increasingly between different groups within countries) as well as in terms of political decision-making and power asymmetries in global governance. Against this background, the main research question of the project is as follows: How do we create a global economic order that contributes to achieving the objectives of the 2030 Agenda and thereby ensures a fairer and more inclusive globalisation? The main focus is laid on the international trade and investment regimes, international financial system and international institutions.
Publications
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Economic impacts of investment facilitation
Balistreri, Edward J. / Zoryana Olekseyuk (2021)
Center for Agricultural and Rural Development/Iowa State University, Working Paper Series (21-WP 615) -
Foreign multinationals in service sectors: a general equilibrium analysis of Brexit
Latorre, María C. / Zoryana Olekseyuk / Hidemichi Yonezawa (2020)
in: The World Economy, 43 (11), 2830-2859 -
Trade and foreign direct investment‐related impacts of Brexit
Latorre, Maria C. / Zoryana Olekseyuk / Hidemichi Yonezawa (2020)
in: The World Economy 43 (1), 2-32 -
Cling together, swing together: the contagious effects of COVID-19 on developing countries through global value chains
Pahl, Stefan / Clara Brandi / Jakob Schwab / Frederik Stender (2020)
Discussion Paper 21/2020 -
Ukraine's unconsidered losses from the annexation of Crimea: what should we account for in the DCFTA forecasts?
Olekseyuk, Zoryana / Hannah Schürenberg-Frosch (2018)
in: Review of Development Economics 23 (2), 877-901 -
Do environmental provisions in trade agreements make exports from developing countries greener?
Brandi, Clara / Jakob Schwab / Axel Berger / Jean-Frédéric Morin (2020)
in: World Development 129 (May 2020), article 104899 -
Covid-19 Crisis: how should the G20 support heavily indebted low-income countries?
Berensmann, Kathrin / Abebe Shimeles / Njuguna Ndung'u (2020)
in: T20 Saudi Arabia, Policy Brief, Online -
Trade and climate change: a key agenda for the G20
Brandi, Clara / Axel Berger / Aaron Cosbey / Susanne Dröge / Manfred Elsig / Ilaria Espa / Jean-Frédéric Morin (2020)
in: T20 Saudi Arabia, Policy Brief, Online -
Advancing EU-Africa cooperation in light of the African Continental Free Trade Area
Berger, Axel / Clara Brandi / Frederik Stender / Edward K. Brown / Philomena Apiko / Sean Woolfrey (2020)
ETTG-Paper, September 2020 -
Improving key functions of the World Trade Organization: fostering open plurilaterals, regime management and decision-making
Berger, Axel / Clara Brandi / Manfred Elsig / Anwarul Hoda / Xinquan Tu (2020)
in: T20 Saudi Arabia, Policy Brief, Online -
Shared responsibility: debt relief for poorest countries
Berensmann, Kathrin (2020)
in: Development and Cooperation (10/2020), Online -
Towards greening trade? Environmental provisions in emerging markets’ preferential trade agreements
Berger, Axel / Dominique Blümer / Clara Brandi / Manjiao Chi (2020)
in: Negi, Archna / Jorge Antonio Pérez-Pineda / Johannes Blankenbach (Eds.), Sustainability Standards and Global Governance, Singapore: Springer, 61-81 -
Gemeinsame Verantwortung: Schuldenerlass für die ärmsten Länder
Berensmann, Kathrin (2020)
in: Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit (10/2020), Online -
Nachhaltige Finanzierung: Internationale Standards sind wichtig
Berensmann, Kathrin (2020)
in: Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit (10/2020), Online -
Den ärmsten Staaten helfen Schuldenerlasse sind dringend notwendig
Berensmann, Kathrin (2020)
in: Frankfurter Rundschau, 04.08.2020, Print/Online -
How the international financial institutions are responding to the pandemic
Berensmann, Kathrin (2020)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 30 April 2020 -
Corporate tax revenue and foreign direct investment: potential trade-offs and how to address them
Laudage, Sabine (2020)
Discussion Paper 17/2020 -
A fundamental transformation of tax systems is needed in the wake of Covid-19
von Haldenwang, Christian / Sabine Laudage / Armin von Schiller (2020)
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 29 June 2020 -
The trade effects of environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements
Berger, Axel / Clara Brandi / Jean-Frédéric Morin / Jakob Schwab (2020)
in: Beverelli, Cosimo / Jürgen Kurz / Damian Raess (Eds.), International Trade, Investment, and the Sustainable Development Goals, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 111-139 -
The trade effects of the Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States: early empirical insights from panel data
Stender, Frederik / Axel Berger / Clara Brandi / Jakob Schwab (2020)
Discussion Paper 7/2020 -
Investment Facilitation für nachhaltige Entwicklung: ein neuer Ansatz für internationale Investitionspolitik
Axel Berger / Sebastian Gsell / Zoryana Olekseyuk (2020)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 1/2020 -
A decade of G20 summitry: assessing the benefits, limitations and future of global club governance in turbulent times
Berger, Axel / Andrew F. Cooper / Sven Grimm (2019)
in: South African Journal of International Affairs 26 (4), 493-504 -
Environmental provisions in trade agreements: defending regulatory space or pursuing offensive interests?
Blümer, Dominique / Jean-Frédéric Morin / Clara Brandi / Axel Berger (2019)
in: Environmental Politics 29(5) -
Like it or not? How the economic and institutional environment shapes individual attitudes towards multinational enterprises
Harms, Philipp / Jakob Schwab (2019)
in: The World Economy 42 (3), 636-67 -
The intimate link between income levels and life expectancy: global evidence from 213 years
Jetter, Michael / Sabine Laudage / David Stadelmann (2019)
in: Social Science Quarterly 100 (4), 1387 - 1403 -
Kick-starting diffusion: explaining the varying frequency of PTAs’ environmental clauses by their initial conditions
Morin, Jean-Frédéric / Dominique Blümer / Clara Brandi / Axel Berger (2019)
in: World Economy 42 (9), 2602-2628 -
Tax expenditure and the treatment of tax incentives for investment
Redonda, Agustin / Santiago Diaz de Sarralde / Mark Hallerberg / Lise Johnson / Ariel Melamud / Ricardo Rozemberg / Jakob Schwab / Christian von Haldenwang (2019)
in: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 13 (12), 1-11 -
Green finance across the universe
Berensmann, Kathrin / Nannette Lindenberg (2019)
in: Sabri Boubaker / Duc Nguyen (eds.), Corporate social responsibility, ethics and sustainable prosperity, London: World Scientific Publ., 331-358 -
The global debt governance system for developing countries: deficiencies and reform proposals
Berensmann, Kathrin (2019)
in: Andreas Antoniades / Ugo Panizza (eds.), Global debt dynamics: crises, lessons, governance, Abington: Routledge, 137-155 -
The political economy of Chinese investment treaties
Berger, Axel (2019)
in: Ka Zeng (ed.), Handbook on the international political economy of China, Cheltenham/Northhampton: Elgar, 151-168 -
The multilateralization of PTAs’ environmental clauses: scenarios for the future?
Morin, Jean-Frédéric / Clara Brandi / Axel Berger (2019)
in: Manfred Elsig / Michael Hahn / Gabriele Spilker (eds.), The shifting landscape of global trade governance, World Trade Forum, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 207-232 -
Brexit: everyone loses, but Britain loses the most
Latorre, Maria C. / Zoryana Olekseyuk / Hidemichi Yonezawa / Sherman Robinson (2019)
Washington, D.C: Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE Working paper 19-5) -
With or without you: how the G20 could advance global action towards climate-friendly sustainable development
Bauer, Steffen / Axel Berger / Gabriela Iacobuta (2019)
Briefing Paper 10/2019 -
Towards G20 guiding principles on investment facilitation for sustainable development
Berger, Axel / Ahmad Ghouri / Tomoko Ishikawa / Karl P. Sauvant / Matthew Stephenson (2019)
published on T20 Japan March 2019 -
How can an international framework for investment facilitation contribute to sustainable development?
Berger, Axel / Sebastian Gsell (2019)
Briefing Paper 15/2019 -
Investment facilitation for development: a new route to global investment governance
Berger, Axel / Sebastian Gsell / Zoryana Olekseyuk (2019)
Briefing Paper 5/2019 -
Reinvigorating the WTO as a negotiating forum
Nakagawa, Junji / Sait Akman / Axel Berger / Eduardo Bianchi / Manjiao Chi / Uri Dadush / Jean Dong / Gabriel Felbermayr / Andreas Freytag / Anabel Gonzalez / Bernard Hoekman / David Laborde / Sandra Rios / Sabyasachi Saha / Claudia Schmucker / Akihiko Ta (2019)
published on T20 Japan March 2019 -
Entwicklungsfinanzierung und Mobilisierung inländischer Einnahmen: mehr internationale Reformen sind erforderlich
von Haldenwang, Christian / Sabine Laudage (2019)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 9/2019 -
Financing for development and domestic revenue mobilisation: more international reforms are needed
von Haldenwang, Christian / Sabine Laudage (2019)
Briefing Paper 13/2019 -
Die Folgen des Brexit für die Least Developed Countries
Olekseyuk, Zoryana / Israel Osorio Rodarte (2019)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 3/2019 -
How Brexit affects Least Developed Countries
Olekseyuk, Zoryana / Israel Osorio Rodarte (2019)
Briefing Paper 2/2019 -
Why developing countries are facing a renewed debt crisis
Berensmann, Kathrin (2019)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), (The Current Column of 11 February 2019) -
Chinas neue Seidenstrasse: Chancen und Risiken bei ihrer Finanzierung
Berensmann, Kathrin (2019)
in: Diplomatisches Magazin 2/2019, 32-35 -
China's new silk road: financing opportunities and risks
Berensmann, Kathrin (2019)
in: Diplomatisches Magazin 2/2019, 32-35 -
G20 Summit in Osaka: the drought years of international cooperation
Berger, Axel (2019)
in: Diplomatisches Magazin 6/2019, 44-47 -
Der G20-Gipfel in Osaka: die Dürrejahre internationaler Kooperation
Berger, Axel (2019)
in: Diplomatisches Magazin 6/2019, 44-47 -
The year ahead in 2019: think local when acting globally
Grimm, Sven / Axel Berger (2019)
published on International Development Blog 9. Januar 2019 -
Why influence in global governance should be distributed more justly
Hilbrich, Sören (2019)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), (The Current Column of 21 October 2019) -
Wirtschaftswachstum als gute Medizin für ein langes Leben
Jetter, Michael / Sabine Laudage / David Stadelmann (2019)
published on Ökonomenstimme 5. Sept. 2019 -
The impact of Brexit for developing countries
Olekseyuk, Zoryana / Clara Brandi (2019)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), (The Current Column of 15 January 2019) -
Von Millionen zu Milliarden: Entwicklungsländer müssen ihre Steuerbasis stärken
Schwab, Jakob (2019)
in: Frankfurter Rundschau 15.07.2019 -
Potenziale der Blockchain-Technologie für die Handelsintegration von Entwicklungsländern
Schwab, Jakob / Jan Ohnesorge (2019)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 4/2019 -
Potential of blockchain technology for trade integration of developing countries
Schwab, Jakob / Jan Ohnesorge (2019)
Briefing Paper 4/2019 -
Demystifying green bonds
Berensmann, Kathrin / Florence Dafe / Nannette Lindenberg (2018)
in: Sabri Boubaker / Douglas Cumming / Duc Khuong Nguyen (eds.), Research handbook of investing in the triple bottom line, Cheltenham: Elgar, 333-354 -
The global debt governance system for developing countries: deficiencies and reform proposals
Berensmann, Kathrin (2018)
published on Third World Thematics: A Third World Quarterly (TWQ ) 2 (6), 863-881 -
The G20 in 2017: born in a financial crisis - lost in a global crisis?
Berger, Axel / Julia Leininger / Dirk Messner (eds.) (2018)
Global Summitry (Special Issue) (forthcoming) -
Introduction: The G20 in 2017: born in a financial crisis - lost in a global crisis?
Berger, Axel / Julia Leininger / Dirk Messner (2018)
in: Global Summitry (Special Issue) ed. by Axel Berger / Julia Leininger / Dirk Messner (forthcoming) -
The Trump-induced G20 stress test on trade: did the German presidency pass?
Berger, Axel / Simon Evenett (2018)
published on Global Summitry 17 May 2018 -
Mend it, don't end it: the case for upgrading the G20's pledge on protectionism
Evenett, Simon J. / Sait Akman / Axel Berger / Eduardo Bianchi / Carlos Primo Braga / Marcela Cristini7 Kamala Dawar / Matthias Helble / Galina Kolev / Jurgen Matthes / Maximilian Mendez-Parra / Claudia Schmucker / Johannes Schwarzer / Aki Tamura / Tu Xin (2018)
published on T20 Argentina 2018 -
New industrial revolution: upgrading trade and investment frameworks for digitalization
Meléndez-Ortiz, Ricardo / Axel Berger / Wallace S. Cheng / Santiago Díaz de Sarralde Miguez / Christian von Haldenwang / Tobias Hentze / Lucia Tajoli / Akihiko Tamura / Wei Wenfang (2018)
published on T20 Argentina 2018 -
Moving the G20’s investment agenda forward
Berger, Axel / Karl P. Sauvant / Silvia Karina Fiezzoni / Rodrigo Polanco / Matthew Stephenson / Akihiko Tamura / Pavel Trunin (2018)
published on T20 Argentina 2018 -
What’s next for the investment facilitation agenda?
Berger, Axel (2018)
published on Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (Columbia FDI Perspectives: Perspectives on topical foreign direct investment 224) -
Putting FDI on the G20 Agenda
Sauvant, Karl P. / Axel Berger (2018)
published on www.project-syndicate.org Aug 3, 2018 -
How will they impact developing countries?
Berger, Axel (2018)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 23 March 2018 -
Pathways to international tax governance: has the German G20 presidency made a difference?
von Haldenwang, Christian / Jakob Schwab (2018)
published on Global Summitry, 1-15 -
Tax competition
von Haldenwang, Christian / Tommaso Faccio / Tobias Hentze / Thomas Mättig / Irma Johanna Mosquera Valderrama / Agustín Redonda / Gabriela Rigoni / Jakob Schwab / Rob Vos (2018)
published on T20 Argentina 2018 -
Towards a more accountable G20? Accountability mechanisms of the G20 and the new challenges posed to them by the 2030 Agenda
Hilbrich, Sören / Jakob Schwab (2018)
Discussion Paper 13/2018 -
Development Policy for a Just Globalisation
Hilbrich, Sören (2018)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 17 September 2018 -
Tax expenditure and the treatment of tax incentives for investment
Diaz de Sarralde, Santiago / Mark Hallerberg / Lise Johnson / Ariel Melamud / Agustin Redonda / Ricardo Rozemberg / Jakob Schwab / Christian von Haldenwang (2018)
published on T20 Argentina 2018 -
Is Trump's tax reform bad for developing countries?
von Haldenwang, Christian / Jakob Schwab (2018)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 12 February 2018
Events
Investment facilitation and WTO modernisation
Global Value Chains for Inclusive Development
A multilateral framework on investment facilitation
Digital Trade, WTO Reform, and Trade and Investment for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
Macroeconomic Developments and Prospects in Low-income Development Countries