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11. Spatial development initiatives – potentials, challenges and policy lessons: with a specific outlook for inclusive agrocorridors in Sub-Sahara Africa

    

    Reeg, Caroline (2017)

    Against the rise of agricultural corridor initiatives in Sub-Sahara Africa, this report analyses the potentials and pitfalls of older spatial development initiatives. It shows that spatial approaches are very difficult to get right. Yet, there is potential to learn from the past.

12. Aligning climate change mitigation and sustainable development under the UNFCCC: a critical assessment of the Clean Development Mechanism, the Green Climate Fund and REDD+

    

    Horstmann, Britta / Jonas Hein (2017)

    We argue that the UNFCCC regime does not sufficiently address the risks of negative effects related to mitigation investments. Those who have least contributed to climate change, but are most vulnerable to its impacts, could thus face a double equity gap.

13. Retail FDI liberalisation and the transformation of agrifood value chains in India

    

    Hampel-Milagrosa, Aimée / Hauke Brankamp / Thomas Cremer / Alexander Haddad / Katharina Pannwitz / Franziska Wehinger / Sangeeta Agasty / Tamal Sarkar (2017)

    Waiting to exhale: why is it that the much-awaited Indian retail Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) liberalisation has not attracted its expected deluge of investments? And why is it that this new DIE study recommends proceeding with Indian retail FDI liberalisation nevertheless?

14. Managing coastal ecosystems in the Philippines: what Cash for Work programmes can contribute

    

    Altenburg, Tilman / Cecilia Fischer / Kerstin Huck / Anna Kruip / Sören Müller / Stefanie Sörensen (2017)

    Cash for Work (CfW) programmes can contribute effectively to the sustainable management of natural resources. We show this for fishery management and mangrove reforestation. The study compares CfW with alternative incentives schemes and shows how CfW should be designed to achieve its objective

15. Environmental tax reform in developing, emerging and transition economies

    

    Cottrell, Jacqueline / Kai Schlegelmilch / Matthias Runkel / Alexander Mahler (2016)

    This report highlights lessons on impacts, costs and acceptance learned from environmental tax reforms in industrialised countries, focusing on those most transferable to developing countries, and illustrated with the authors’ practical advisory experience in selected developing countries.

16. Deep preferential trade agreements and upgrading in global value chains: the case of Vietnam

    

    Berger, Axel / Dominique Bruhn / Andrea Bender / Julia Friesen / Katharina Kick / Felix Kullmann / Robert Roßner / Svenja Weyrauch (2016)

    How and to what extent can deep preferential trade agreements support upgrading of companies from developing countries within global value chains? The Transpacific Partnership and the EU-Vietnam agreement provide some new opportunities for Vietnam, but potentials will not materialize automatically.

17. Food security in sub-Saharan Africa: a fresh look on agricultural mechanisation; how adapted financial solutions can make a difference

    

    Ströh de Martínez, Christiane / Marietta Feddersen / Anna Speicher (2016)

    Much of sub-Saharan Africa’s farmland is (still) cultivated with the hand hoe. Mechanisation can help to alleviate food insecurity, but considerable risks are involved. The financing for mechanisation is difficult to access, which is why well-adapted financial solutions need to be designed.

18. Policies and institutions for assuring pro-poor rural development and food security through bioenergy production: case studies on bush-to-energy and Jatropha in Namibia

    

    Brüntrup, Michael / Katharina Becker / Martina Gaebler / Raoul Herrmann / Silja Ostermann / Jan Prothmann (2016)

    For bioenergy to support rural development and food security, guiding policies and institutions are needed. This study derives recommendation for a better regulatory environment for bioenergy development in Nambia, based on the analyses of two value chains: the bush-to-energy cluster and Jatropha.

19. The devolution of the land and building tax in Indonesia

    

    von Haldenwang, Christian / Alice Elfert / Tobias Engelmann / Samuel Germain / Gregor Sahler / Amelie Stanzel Ferreira (2015)

    Indonesia has decentralised the responsibility for the land and building tax to cities and districts. But has the reform led to improved tax collection? The present study explores whether decentralisation leads to a better use of the potential of this revenue source.

20. The global partnership for effective development cooperation: origins, actions and future prospects

    

    Abdel-Malek, Talaat (2015)

    This study by one of the most influential policy-makers in development traces the evolution of the international aid system during the post-World War II period and analyses the potential of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation to become a universally accepted platform.