Die große wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeit von China ist spätestens nach den militärischen Drohgebärden Pekings gegenüber Taiwan als gravierendes Problem erkannt und soll möglichst bald reduziert werden. Das Gegenteil fand jedoch im ersten Halbjahr 2022 statt. Die deutschen...

Greece, Portugal and Spain face a serious risk of external solvency due to their close to minus 100 percent of GDP net negative international investment positions, which are largely composed of debt. The perceived inability of these countries to rebalance their external positions is a major root...

China's exchange-rate policy has been under attack in the last years, especially in the United States. Now the critique of Beijing's policy is coming from Europe as well, and Chinese authorities are accused of boosting its own export, at others expense, by keeping its currency below its real...

The onset of the financial crisis in 2008 has highlighted the problems of diverging external imbalances within Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the role of persistent losses in competitiveness. This paper starts by investigating some of the competitiveness factors which contributed to...

Am 2. April 2025 verkündete Donald Trump beispiellose Zollerhöhungen, mit denen die USA eine folgenreiche Kehrtwende in ihrer Handelspolitik vollziehen. Auf der ganzen Welt wurde der Präsident dafür kritisiert. Übersehen wird oft, dass die amerikanische Wirtschaft vor großen...

The objective of this research is to learn about the status of patent applications for monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). The paper analyzes the different claim strategies used by applicants to obtain patent protection. The database constructed and described in South Centre Research Paper No. 186 was...

With the adoption of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), Argentina had to adapt to the new international rules on patent law. One of the main points of the Agreement is the possibility of establishing different forms of compulsory licenses and...

In May 2004 ten new members are incorporated to the European Union (EU) which, considered on the whole, represent a GDP which is four times greater than the Argentine GDP. With this expansion, the EU population will increase by 24%, its surface will increase by 28%, and the GDP will increase by...