From poverty reduction to mutual interests? The debate on differentiation in EU development policy
Koch, SveaDiscussion Paper (13/2012)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
ISBN: 978-3-88985-556-5
Preis: 6 €
With regards to the implications for EU development policy, the paper draws two main conclusions.
First, tackling global poverty needs a better coordinated cross-country division of labour at the EU level to avoid marginalising countries that have become wealthier in per capita terms but that continue to experience internal development challenges.
Second, addressing challenges related to complex global public goods requires EU development policy to continue its engagement with emerging economies and other increasingly powerful developing countries. Such diversification of objectives, however, will increase the coordination challenges of EU development policy and other European external policies substantially.