SECO Working Paper Series
Cutting-edge socio-economic research
The SECO Working Paper Series capture the research on contemporary political and socio-economic dynamics in advanced, emerging, and developing countries.
This series provides an outlet for work at an early stage of the research process in order to disseminate the findings to a wide audience and stimulate debates prior to the publication of research findings in academic journals and books.
The Working Papers present on-going research from the projects of both SECO’s own researchers and scholars outside Roskilde University. We encourage submissions from scholars studying political and socio-economic processes from different social-science and economic schools of thought. We accept papers that draw on approaches from economic sociology, economic geography, economic anthropology, and political economy, as well as ones that employ multi- and inter-disciplinary perspectives.
Submissions
Submissions
Working Paper submissions should be in English, be formatted using the Harvard citation style, and typically be between 8-12,000 words long (all inclusive). For further guidelines on how to format your submission (pdf).
Papers should be submitted to Lars Buur, lbuur@ruc.dk.
All submissions undergo an editorial peer-review process before being accepted for publication. Working Papers are published electronically only.
Editorial board
 
SECO Working Paper Series
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  Fiscally constrained developmentalism: IPCEIs and the development of innovative European industrial policy 
 Alexander Elg, SECO Working Paper 2025:1
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  The Development of Political Settlements in Tanzania:Implications for Social Cash Transfers 
 Lutengano Mwinuka, Raphael R. Macha, Rehema, SECO Working Paper 2024: 3The development of political settlements in Uganda from independence to the present day 
 Background study for the CASH-IN research programme
 Malin J. Nystrand and Bruno L. Yawe, SECO Working Paper 2024: 2Echoes from Mozambique:Did the Idea of High Modernism Vanish? 
 Lars Buur and Thabit Jacob, SECO Working Paper 2024: 1
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  Social Protection Schemes for Workers in the Informal Sector: 
 The Case of Health Insurance in Tanzania
 Rehema G. Kilonzo, Lutengano Mwinuka and Raphael Rasiel Macha, SECO Working Paper 2023: 5Central banking in the age of the climate crisis 
 Is Sweden’s Riksbank in the process of adopting a proactive approach to greening monetary policy?
 Scott P.R. Speer and Emil W.W. Samuelsen,SECO Working Paper 2023: 4Should aid in Uganda be repurposed to super-size social cash transfers? 
 An application of a Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model
 Wilson Asiimwe, Jacob Ulrich, Susan Kavuma, Bruno Yawe, SECO Working Paper 2023: 3Does gender matter for green behaviour. 
 An empirical investigation with cross-country data from the Enterprise Surveys
 Camilla Jensen, SECO Working Paper 2023: 2Training returns among informal workers: Evidence from urban sites in Kenya and Tanzania 
 Nina Torm, SECO Working Paper 2023: 1
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 The struggle of localisation: Can the Grand Bargain 2.0 redeem the failure of its precursor?
 Karen Wulff S?rensen, SECO Working Paper 2022: 7Social Protection and Resilience during COVID-19:An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Role of Informal Worker Associations in Kenya 
 Cille Melin Gundertofte, Gustav Eik Thur, Nina Torm, SECO Working Paper 2022: 6Just give all the money to the poor? 
 Jacob Ulrich, Malin J. Nystrand, Lars Buur, SECO Working Paper 2022: 5Active Labour Market Policies in Asia and the Pacific 
 Miguel Ni?o-Zarazúa and Nina Torm, SECO Working Paper 2022: 4How can Central Banks Help Mitigate Climate Change? A Money View Perspective on Green Central Banking 
 Jakob Vestergaard, SECO Working Paper 2022: 3Institutional Reform and Pockets of Effectiveness in the Mozambique Gas Sector 
 José Jaime Macuane, Lars Buur, Padil Salimo, SECO Working Paper 2022: 2Ecologically unequal exchange and uneven development patterns along global value chains 
 Jeff Althouse, Bruno Carballa Smichowski, Louison Cahen-Fourot, Cédric Durand, Steven Knauss, SECO Working Paper 2022: 1
CAE Working Paper Series
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 The automotive industry in developing countries and its contribution to economic development
 Tobias Wuttke, CAE Working Paper 2021: 2Organizing the informal economy as part of the trade union movement in Kenya and Tanzania 
 Lone Riisgaard, CAE Working Paper 2021: 1
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 Accessing Global Value Chains: The Politics of Promoting Export-Driven Industrialisation and Upgrading in the Mozambican Cashew Processing Industry
 Christina Saulich, CAE Working Paper 2020: 5Worker Organisation and Social Protection amongst Informal Petty Traders in Tanzania 
 Lone Riisgaard, CAE Working Paper 2020: 4Social protection and the role of informal worker associations: A cross-sector analysis of urban sites in Kenya and Tanzania 
 Nina Torm, CAE Working Paper 2020: 3Kenyan-owned firms in the floriculture global value chain: A multi-level analysis of the historical development of local firms 
 Sameer Azizi, CAE Working Paper 2020: 2Constraints on eco-industrial development in the context of global production networks: The case of Ethiopian eco-industrial parks 
 Federico Jensen, CAE Working Paper 2020: 1
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 Les enterprises africaines dans les cha?nes de valeur mondiales du vêtement: stratégies de valorisation, réseaux diasporiques et marchés de niche à Madagascar
 Lindsay Whitfield et Cornelia Staritz, CAE Working Paper 2019: 3Industrial Policy and Monopoly Capitalism in Nigeria: Lessons from the Dangote Business Conglomerate 
 Richard Itaman and Christina Wolf, CAE Working Paper 2019: 2The Kenyan floriculture export industry: Assessing local firms' capabilities in the floriculture global value chain 
 Sameer Ahmad Azizi, CAE Working Paper 2019: 1
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 Local Firms in Madagascar’s Apparel Export Sector: Technological Capabilities and Participation in Global Value Chains
 Lindsay Whitfield and Cornelia Staritz, CAE Workning Paper 2018:3Local Firms in the Ethiopian Apparel Export Sector: Building Technological Capabilities to Enter Global Value Chains 
 Cornelia Staritz and Lindsay Whitfield, CAE Workning Paper 2018:2Sales Channels, Governance, and Upgrading in Floriculture Global Value Chains: Implications for Ethiopian-owned Floriculture Firms 
 Ayelech Tiruwha Melese, CAE Working Paper 2018:1
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 Mapping the Technological Capabilities and Competitiveness of Kenyan-Owned Floriculture Firms
 Francis Mulangu, CAE Working Paper 2017: 5Mapping the Technological Capabilities of Ethiopian-owned firms in the Apparel Global Value Chain 
 Lindsay Whitfield and Cornelia Staritz, CAE Working Paper 2017: 4.Made in Ethiopia: The Emergence and Evolution of the Ethiopian Apparel Export Sector 
 Cornelia Staritz and Lindsay Whitfield, CAE Working Paper 2017: 3.Ethiopian-owned firms in the floriculture global value chain: With what capabilities? 
 Ayelech Tiruwha Melese, CAE Working Paper 2017: 2.What is required for African-owned firms to enter new exports sectors? Conceptualizing technological capabilities within global value chains 
 Cornelia Staritz and Lindsay Whitfield with Ayelech Tiruwha Melese and Francis Mulangu, CAE Working Paper 2017: 1.