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1. The BEPS Project: achievements and remaining challenges

   

   Laudage Teles, Sabine (2023)

   The OECD/G20’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project aims to reduce harmful tax avoidance. This policy brief evaluates the achievements and remaining challenges of the BEPS project to mobilise more domestic revenues, in particular in low- and middle-income countries.

2. Trade and climate change: how to design better climate-related provisions in preferential trade agreements

   

   Brandi, Clara / Kateryna Holzer / Jean-Frédéric Morin / Harro van Asselt / Katharina Weber (2023)

   Given the urgency of the climate crisis, using the toolbox of trade policies to help tackle climate change should be a priority. The Trade Day at COP28 also underlines the growing interest in trade and climate interlinkages.

3. The implementation of sustainable finance taxonomies: learning from South African experiences

   

   Lötters-Viehof, Steffen / Sören Hilbrich / Kathrin Berensmann / Giovanna Artmann / Sam Ashman / Theresa Herbold / Agnese Monti / Felix Paffhausen / Stephanie Roigk / Lee-Ann Steenkamp (2023)

   Embracing sustainable finance taxonomies – potential to facilitate investments in sustainable economic activities. This Policy Brief presents recommendations for a successful introduction of sustainable taxonomies based on research conducted in South Africa.

4. COP28 and the road to a Just Transition

   

   Faus Onbargi, Alexia / Aparajita Banerjee / Susan S. Ekoh (2023)
   The Current Column, 29 November 2023

   A Just Transition will indeed require accelerating the global just energy transition, but will also require operationalising the Loss and Damage Fund agreed upon at COP27 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, and potentiating gender-responsive climate action and finance.

5. Urbanisation and social cohesion: theory and empirical evidence from Africa

   

   Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu (2023)
   Discussion Paper, 16/2023

   Combining a national panel data set on social cohesion from Afrobarometer with urbanisation and other socioeconomic data from world development indicators, the study shows that urbanisation is negatively correlated with the social cohesion.

6. How can climate-resilient health systems be successfully established?

   

   Strupat, Christoph (2023)
   The Current Column, 27 November 2023

   Defining health as a priority area in connection with COP28 will provide a key impetus for the rapid and sustainable reduction of emissions and acceleration of the necessary climate adaptation strategies in the health sector.

7. Civil society between repression and cooptation: adjusting to shrinking space in Cambodia

   

   Lorch, Jasmin (2023)

8. Greening cooperation for economic development

   

   Altenburg, Tilman / Anna Pegels (2023)
   The Current Column, 22 November 2023

   To accelerate green transformation in low- and middle-income countries, it is therefore essential to provide evidence of how a greener economy can offer direct economic benefits to national economies and the majority of citizens.

9. Was macht eine gute Digitalpartnerschaft mit Afrika aus?

   

   Erforth, Benedikt (2023)

   Eine erfolgreiche Digitalpartnerschaft mit afrikanischen Ländern baut auf vertrauenswürdigen Datenaustausch, pragmatische Wirtschaftspartnerschaften und den Mittelstand. Um dies zu erreichen, bedarf es von deutscher Seite einer expliziten Auseinandersetzung mit dem afrikanischen Digitalmarkt ebenso wie einer verstärkten Koordination zwischen den einzelnen mit dem Thema betrauten Ressorts.

10. Emerging disputes over land and leadership in urban villages on the airport reserve in Abidjan

    

    Ittner, Irit (2023)