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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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