Wie hat sich der Dienstleistungssektor in Deutschland in den letzten 40 Jahren entwickelt? Welchen Stellenwert hat er heute und wo ist er im internationalen Vergleich einzuordnen? Wie bedeutsam sind die wissensintensiven Unternehmensdienstleistungen (KIBS) sowie die IKT-Dienstleistungen gemessen...

[Introduction] Brazil currently offers an important conceptual framework for food and nutritional security, and a relevant context of related public policy and programming. Recently, moreover, the country included the right to food among the social rights stipulated in its constitution. These...

Trade between the countries of the Andean Community (AC) and Mercosur showed a positive trend throughout the nineties, although it slowed down in the second half of the decade and beginning of this decade. It can also be seen that if trade flows between the AC and Mercosur are adjusted according...

After spending over 6 percent of GDP responding to the COVID-19 crisis, Brazil has suffered among the worst per capita numbers in the world in terms of cases and deaths. In this policy brief, Luiza Nassif-Pires, Laura Carvalho, and Eduardo Rawet explore how stark inequalities along racial,...

Bereits während seines Wahlkampfes 2018 stellte Jair Bolsonaro einen grundlegenden Wandel in der brasilianischen Außenpolitik in Aussicht. Seit Bolsonaro am 1. Januar 2019 sein Amt als Präsident Brasiliens antrat, ist der außenpolitische Wandel weiterhin im Diskurs präsent und lässt sich...

Competition law may play an important role in drug pricing control by containing high prices derived from economic violations. Since the use of competition tools is not limited by the TRIPS Agreement or other international binding disciplines, there is ample policy room to explore how countries,...

Estimating farmers' supply responses to changes in framework conditions is important to in-form decision-makers on the expected impacts on production volume as well as the resulting land-use shifts. Existing agricultural supply response models generally require either larger databases with...