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China has achieved a tremendous economic growth in the past few decades. In the pursuit of self-reliance, economic and social upgrading, the central government of China has given a great attention to upgrading their industries. In this regard, the automobile industry and automanufacturing companies have attracted great attention from both central and local governments.
The intention of the Chinese central government to encourage the establishment of joint ventures between the local Chinese and European automobile manufacturers was to take advantage of the technology spillover that would take place as a result. This project is a case study on the relationship between European and Chinese automobile industries to inspect the possibility of achieving social upgrading via economic upgrading as a result of technological spillover. The argument is that technology transfer has been made possible through industrial collaboration between the Chinese and the European automakers. In addition, industrial upgrading in China is translated to an unprecedented economic growth that has affected the
society.
The agriculture sector is a vital link for the socio-economic development of many rural areas in the developing countries. A major part of the poverty reduction is largely affirmed with an expansion of smallholders´ agricultural production and their capabilities. Moreover, the largest portion of their income is derived from the trade of agricultural products. However, over the last few years, with the raise of private agri-food standards, those often go beyond public requirements, agri-food value chains became not only sophisticated but private agri-food standards emerged as an entrance ticket to access European market segments. This trend, at the other extreme, significantly confronts less financially endowed smallholders´ in developing economies and shrinks their opportunities to participate in the global agri-food value chains thus, sell their product on the valuable markets. Against this background, this work provides a complementary perspective on the structural changes in the global food marketplace resulting from the emergence of global value chains and compliance with the retailer-led food safety and quality standards. Moreover, based on the case analysis of the Global GAP and fresh fruits and vegetable sector, located in the buyer-driven chains, it examines major implications of the private food quality and safety certifications and identifies their inhibiting factors on the small-scale farmers in developing economies. Due to some constraints such as lack of financial and technical capacities, these vulnerable value chains actors are not able to comply with the tightening private certification schemes repercussions of which, among others are lost income, savings and increased poverty level.
It is likely that private food standards will continue to evolve. Thus, contingent upon the findings and conclusions derived from the analysis, this research identifies possible governance mechanisms and points of interventions for addressing detrimental implications of private food schemes. This also includes recommendations for empowering small-scale farmers to comply with the food standards and national authorities in developing countries in creating enabling
export enabling environment for smallholder farmers. In that regard, it also provides insights on enhancing the legitimacy of the private food certifications. Last but not least, it discusses the role EU should play, in respect to leveraging private agri-food schemes, to prevent exclusion of small-scale farmers from the European markets that could threaten their livelihoods and hinder development objectives in general.
The present master thesis analyzes the impact of the influx of asylum seekers during 2015/2016 on the asylum framework of the EU and the domestic asylum policy of the member states. The thesis argues that the refugee crisis has contributed significantly to the exposure of the numerous shortcomings of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) one of which is the ignorance of the persistent heterogeneity of the member states that hinders the harmonization of the asylum policies and reception conditions. The first part of the research deals with the baseline of the CEAS and the role of the supranational shaping of the asylum policy field during the current crisis. Following aspects will be here under scrutiny: persistent focus on the external border security arising from the Schengen Agreement, the problem of the burden-sharing under the Dublin Regulation as well as the achieving the goal of tempering the refugee influx by externalization of the issue through the Deal with Turkey. The empirical part focuses on the various EU member states, namely Germany, Greece, and Hungary. The research touches upon historical roots of the asylum policy of the respective member states, legislative developments happening during 2015/2016 and reception conditions. The thesis concludes that the lack of the legitimacy of the regulations coming from the supranational level along with the absence of the profound ideational basis for the elaboration of the common asylum policy facilitated by the deep-rooted diverse historical and institutional context hinders the EU member states to act sufficiently under the critical circumstances and provide an adequate and human-rights oriented response to the massive migratory inflows.
Common European Asylum System European Union’s response to the refugee inflows from 2013 onwards
(2018)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the EU’s response to the refugee inflows from 2013 onwards. It will be argued that during the management of the challenge, the member states was far cry from adopting a collective response to the challenge. This commitment-compliance will be attributed to EU’s historically failure to make a clear distinction between market regulation and core state powers in which domestic conflicts and politicization has become considerably relevant. The content of the paper is divided into six chapters. In the first chapter, the scope of the thesis will be explained by touching upon the rationale of the paper and basic terminologies in migration studies. Second chapter will concentrate on theoretical framework explaining the concept of ‘core state powers’ in CEAS, together with its features, problems and consequences in the face of refugee inflows from 2013 onwards. The third chapter will give practical inputs in line with 2015 European Agenda on Migration to show how regulatory integration on core state powers led to a growing commitment compliance gap (Relocation Plan) and externalization practices by the EU. (Hotspot mechanism and Re-admission Agreement).