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Centre for Development Studies
Key economic aspects of development and catching up
- Developing countries in the globalized world, development theories,
- Economic and social developments in the Middle East, in North Africa and in Central Asia,
- World trade and the WTO, trade liberalisation, agricultural policies, The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and its reforms,
- World agricultural system and products, the food problem,
- Development co-operation policy of the EU and that of Hungary,
- Foreign direct investments,
- Specific domestic policy issues:
- competitiveness,
- R&D and innovation, economic challenges of the knowledge society,
- infrastructure networks,
- urban- and regional development,
- environment,
- sustainable development.
Annamária Artner
- Global labour market, employment policies
- Social impacts of globalization. Globalization-critical movements. New modes of government, civil society.
- Regionalisation and globalization. Theories, practices, effects on the countries with different level of development.
- Competitiveness at macro- and micro level. Transfer of technology, FDI, export strategies etc. (Case studies, field research).
- Problems of development within the European Union.
- Outward foreign direct investment and labour market of China.
- Financial and economic crisis, crisis management in different regions and countries.
Péter Farkas
- Development theories on the role of market and state
- The international financial system and the debt of the developing countries
- Global diffusion of R& D
- Effects of FDI on R&D in Hungary.
Tamás Fleischer
- Role of infrastructure networks in the caching-up processes
- Sustainable development, environment, competitiveness and infrastructure networks
Judit Kiss
- the EU and the East European membership
- the economy of the developing countries with special reference to the African region
- world trade and the WTO negotiations with special regard to agriculture,
- transformation of the Central and Eastern European agriculture and food economy with special reference to the Hungarian case,
- foreign capital in the Hungarian food economy,
- the foreign trade relations of Hungary with special regard to trade in agricultural goods,
- the CAP reform and its impact on Central and Eastern European agriculture,
- agricultural and rural development in Europe,
- food security and agricultural development of the LDCs,
- international development co-operation with due regard to the activity of the new member states of the EU.
Andrea Szalavetz
- Economics of innovation
- Technical change and science & technology policy
- FDI and technology transfer
- Factors of corporate competitiveness in CEE economies
Tamás Szigetvári
- Modernisation process in developing countries, especially in the Middle East, in North Africa and in Central Asia
- Finance of infrastructural development,
- Infrastructure in international and regional comparison,
- Liberalisation in infrastructure.

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