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With or without you: how the G20 could advance global action towards climate-friendly sustainable development

Bauer, Steffen / Axel Berger / Gabriela Iacobuta (2019)
Briefing Paper 10/2019

G20 represents 80% of global carbon emissions and 80% of global wealth. This briefing paper argues how the club's economic and political weight may be harnessed for ambitious action towards implementing the Paris Agreement and 2030 Agenda in spite of domestic agendas and geopolitical odds.

Global Value Chains for Inclusive Development

Tokyo, 28. May 2019

Foreign direct investment (FDI) offers a useful entry point for integration into global value chains (GVCs). It also offers a host of technology and financial resources that may bring tangible benefits to domestic firms and industries, thereby increasing their productivity and capability. However, FDI attraction is not without its…

A multilateral framework on investment facilitation

Bonn, 23. May 2019

Structured Discussions on a multilateral framework on investment facilitation are underway in the World Trade Organization (WTO), following a Joint Ministerial Statement on Investment Facilitation for Development endorsed by 70 members of the WTO’s 11 th Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires in December 2017. If these discussions should,…

Kick-starting diffusion: explaining the varying frequency of PTAs’ environmental clauses by their initial conditions

Morin, Jean-Frédéric / Dominique Blümer / Clara Brandi / Axel Berger (2019)
External Publications

Investment facilitation for development: a new route to global investment governance

Berger, Axel / Sebastian Gsell / Zoryana Olekseyuk (2019)
Briefing Paper 5/2019

This policy brief provides an overview of the emerging policy debate about investment facilitation. We highlight that four key challenges need to be tackled in order to negotiate an Investment Facilitation Framework (IFF) in the WTO that supports sustainable development

Digital Trade, WTO Reform, and Trade and Investment for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

Tokyo, 09. April 2019

In recent decades, the global economy has grown ever faster. This is mainly due to the fact that the global economy is becoming increasingly integrated. However, the global trading system that has supported this growth and the process of economic integration is showing increasing signs of stress. In the face of growing challenges, the…

The political economy of Chinese investment treaties

Berger, Axel (2019)
External Publications

Reinvigorating the WTO as a negotiating forum

Nakagawa, Junji / Sait Akman / Axel Berger / Eduardo Bianchi / Manjiao Chi / Uri Dadush / Jean Dong / Gabriel Felbermayr / Andreas Freytag / Anabel Gonzalez / Bernard Hoekman / David Laborde / Sandra Rios / Sabyasachi Saha / Claudia Schmucker / Akihiko Ta (2019)
External Publications

Towards G20 guiding principles on investment facilitation for sustainable development

Berger, Axel / Ahmad Ghouri / Tomoko Ishikawa / Karl P. Sauvant / Matthew Stephenson (2019)
External Publications

The year ahead in 2019: think local when acting globally

Grimm, Sven / Axel Berger (2019)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

2019

2019 Jump to: Dezember 2019 November 2019 Oktober 2019 September 2019 August 2019 Juli 2019 Juni 2019 Mai 2019 April 2019 März 2019 Februar 2019 Januar 2019 Dezember 2019 „Verkehrssysteme umbauen” Die kommissarische Direktorin des Deutschen Instituts für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Imme Scholz , wünscht sich für 2020 ein verbessertes Klimapaket. Außerdem müssten die Verkehrssysteme umgebaut werden, sagte Scholz im SWR Tagesgespräch. Emissionen müssten viel schneller…

T20 - cooperation to overcome the challenges to multilateralism?

Berger, Axel / Sven Grimm (2018)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

The G20 after the Buenos Aires Summit: it's still relevant!

Berger, Axel / Sven Grimm (2018)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

The G20 summit and the future of the World Trade Organization

Berger, Axel / Clara Brandi (2018)
The Current Column, 03. December 2018

As important as a common commitment is at the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, it remains unclear how it will continue.

Moving the G20’s investment agenda forward

Berger, Axel / Karl P. Sauvant / Silvia Karina Fiezzoni / Rodrigo Polanco Lazo / Matthew Stephenson / Akihiko Tamura / Pavel Trunin (2018)
External Publications

Was bedeutet Trumps America-first-Handelspolitik für den globalen Süden?

Brandi, Clara / Axel Berger (2018)
External Publications

The G20 in 2017: born in a financial crisis - lost in a global crisis?

Berger, Axel / Julia Leininger / Dirk Messner (eds.) (2018)
External Publications

Introduction: The G20 in 2017: born in a financial crisis - lost in a global crisis?

Berger, Axel / Julia Leininger / Dirk Messner (2018)
External Publications

Dirk Messner departs the DIE in Bonn after 15 years as Institute Director

German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and partners from the field of development co-operation paid tribute to the work of departing DIE-Director Dirk Messner.

Putting FDI on the G20 Agenda

Sauvant, Karl P. / Axel Berger (2018)
External Publications