Discipline: Political Economy

What role can product development partnerships play in order to improve access to medicines for neglected diseases?
What are the patterns and impacts on the development of return skilled migration and how can the potential of scientific diasporas best be exploited for development?
How can a capability based approach help explain the widening gap in development and what insights can be derived to combat poverty efficiently?
How do developing countries set priorities and define realistically achievable goals within the millennium development goals?
What are the linkages between climate change, economic growth and conflict?
How can developing countries compensate for their limited power resources by deploying successful strategies in the context of climate change compensation negotiations?
What are the roles played by migrant organisations in the context of transnational Senegalese migration, integration and development?
What are the political gains from trade agreements and what is their economic value in turn?
What are the opportunities and limits of bilateral talks between Switzerland and Europe? Could a single framework agreement bring together the existing treaties?
What are the corporate citizenship approaches of Swiss medium sized enterprises and large multinational corporations in their participation to the UN Global Compact?