Developing the Global Economic Integration and Inequality Index (GEII)
Imtiaz Sifat (Department of Economics and Business Economics)
This project aims to develop a Global Economic Integration and Inequality Index (GEII). This innovative index will address a critical gap in understanding globalization’s effects on domestic inequality, aligning with GLOCAL’s mission to explore local dimensions of global phenomena. By synthesizing hand-collected, granular indicators of economic integration with detailed inequality metrics, the GEII will offer a nuanced tool for researchers and policymakers worldwide. This project will potentially inform more effective, context-sensitive policies to address rising inequality in an interconnected world.
Workshop ‘Afrodiasporic Circulations Across the Atlantic’
Catherina Wilson (Department of Geography, Planning and Environment)
Since the 2015 European migration crisis, studies on migration primarily focus on South-North movements, for instance between Africa to Europe. Workshop participants will turn the gaze away from the mediatized South to North migration, to focus on the South-South nexus instead. Of relevance is not only the circulation of people, but also the mobility of goods, ideas and cultural practices and expressions across the Atlantic over time and space. These circulations result from different intersecting forces in which the commodification and consumption of culture inspired in Africa overlaps with massive clandestine migration across national borders.
(New) Sanctions Paradox: On the Unsustainability of Sanctions when Democratic Decision-making Is Paired with Strong Economic Interests
Frank Bohn & Ivan Boldyrev (Department of Economics and Business Economics)
Against the backdrop of war and instability in Europe, this project will investigate the role of sanctions. The sanctions effectiveness literature suggests that sanctions are notoriously inefficient (badly chosen tools by the sanction giver) and ineffective (little effect on the recipient’s behaviour). Sanctions can only be effective when they are coordinated and sustained over a longer period of time. This project therefore explores conceptual, analytical and quantitative approaches to better understand the conditions for coordinated and sustained behaviour of sanction and support givers. This small project will set the basis for a Horizon Europe proposal.