Research Projects Cornelia Staritz

12/2020-02/2023 Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank, The role of commodity prices for socio-ecological transformation: Mineral extraction, trading houses and derivatives markets – The cases of cobalt, copper, lithium and nickel in Sub-Saharan Africa (principal investigator), in cooperation with Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE)

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02/2020-01/2025 Danida Fellowship Centre of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Decent Work and GVC-based Industrialization in Ethiopia (part of research team), in cooperation with Roskilde University, London School of Economics, Mekele University

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01/2019-06/2022 German Research Foundation (DFG)/Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Joint Project, Labour governance in global production networks: Assessing labour standards in a new generation of public procurement legislation and trade agreements linked to market access into the European Union (principal investigator), in cooperation with University of Technology Vienna, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)

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12/2016-02/2019 Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank, Financialising commodity markets and global value chains in cocoa and coffee? The role of commodity trading houses (principal investigator), in cooperation with ÖFSE


01/2016-06/2019 Danish Council for Independent Research, Getting out of the Learning Trap: African-owned firms building capabilities in global value chains (AFRICAP) (part of the research team) in cooperation with Roskilde University


09/2012-05/2015 Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank, Financial Markets and the Commodity Price Boom: Macroeconomic and Development Implications for Low-Income Countries (principal investigator), in cooperation with ÖFSE