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Social protection: An effective shield against global crises

Burchi, Francesco / Markus Loewe (2022)
The Current Column, 04. October 2022

The recent crises have affected people’s life not only in financial terms but also unveiled the limited capacities of social systems.

Impact-oriented accompanying research

Special "Impact-oriented accompanying research": As a partner of many implementing agencies, DIE conducts rigorous impact assessments covering topics such as governance, social protection, taxation, digitalization and agriculture.

Urbanization, the Climate Crisis, and the Role of the G7

Roll, Michael (2022)
The Current Column, 12. September 2022

Considering the large number of international initiatives that already deal with urbanization and the climate crisis, what contribution to global sustainable urban development could the G7 make?

Sustainable Urban Development

Special "Sustainable Urban Development": More than half of the World’s population already lives in urban areas; in 2050 it will be two third. Most of the growth will happen in emerging and developing countries, where the number of city-dwellers who live informally is still increasing.

Have we failed to capitalise on the momentum for the SDGs?

Kranholdt, Dominic (2022)
The Current Column, 29. August 2022

The Sustainable Development Report 2022 shows that the international community has seen a reversal in progress on SDG achievement for the second successive year

Social Contracts in the MENA – Drivers of Change

Bonn, 24. August 2022

Aspirations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to improve state-society relations predate the Arab uprisings in 2010-11 (e.g. Algeria 1991-2002, Iran 1998). However, developments after 2011 fell well short of meeting these aspirations in most MENA countries. Considerable bodies of literature now use the social contract ‘lens’ for…

East Asia

Regional expertise on East Asia: This page brings together thematic work of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) for the East Asian region. You can find information on relevant publications, events, projects as well as contact information to the Institute’s researchers with specific regional expertise.

Regional expertise on Latin America

Regional expertise on Latin America: This page brings together thematic work of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) for the Latin American region. You can find information on relevant publications, events, projects and contacts to the Institute’s researchers with specific regional expertise.

Regional expertise on MENA

Regional expertise on MENA: This page bundles thematically related work at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) on the region Middle East and North Africa .You can find information on relevant publications, events, projects as well as contact details of our researchers with specific regional expertise.

Integrating nature into debt sustainability analysis

Kraemer, Moritz / Ulrich Volz (2022)
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Why it is worth to support and protect democracy worldwide

Special “Democracy Support and Protection”: Findings from democratization research and advice, what constitutes democracy and why it's worth promoting democratization.

Prevention of Corruption

Prevention of Corruption Our goals in applying the Public Corporate Governance Code By applying the Public Corporate Governance Code of the Federal Government and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, IDOS is pursuing the goal of continuing to ensure the balanced interaction of the four important bodies - the shareholders, management, Board of Trustees and the International Scientific Advisory Board newly constituted in February 2023 - within the framework of the…

Social protection and social cohesion

Online, 15. June 2022

While there is substantial evidence of the effect of social protection on poverty, inequality and vulnerability, limited research has focused on societal and political outcomes so far. The European Journal of Development Research (EUDR) is publishing a special issue on “Social Protection and Social Cohesion”, which is guest-edited by…

Meeting the world’s demand for Wellbeing with less resources

Bauer, Steffen / Babette Never (2022)
The Current Column, 13. June 2022

The outcome of the Stockholm+50 summit now provides a universal reference point. Context-specific research on the enabling conditions for SCP and practical international cooperation can jointly support both the calibration and application of a global compass for wellbeing

Global Climate Governance in the Face of Obstruction

Online, 08. June 2022

A first-of-its-kind conference will bring together leading social scientists to explore obstruction of global climate action. Co-hosted by the Climate Social Science Network headquartered at Brown University and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) , the conference held virtually on 8-10 June…

Investment Facilitation for Development: How Arab Economies Will Benefit

Online, 01. June 2022

This high-level event is meant to offer a platform for a strategic exchange on the negotiations on an Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD) Agreement in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), launched in September 2020 after over two years of preparatory discussions. The negotiations bring together over 110 WTO Members at all levels…

300 researchers publish communiqué with recommendations for action to G7

At the Think7 Summit, more than 300 researchers from G7 countries and beyond meet today and tomorrow to present solutions to major global challenges.

Quantile return and volatility connectedness among Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and (un)conventional assets

Urom, Christian / Gideon Ndubuisi / Khaled Guesmi (2022)
External Publications

Economic sentiment and climate transition during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ndubuisi, Gideon / Denis Yuni / Ernest Ngeh Tingum (2022)
External Publications

The role of the G7 in solving global debt crises

Bonn and Online, 19. May 2022

The multiple crises of climate change, pandemic and global recession have led to the debt situation of many countries in the Global South assuming critical dimensions today. Three times as many countries as before the Corona pandemic are in a particularly critical debt situation (erlassjahr.de and MISEREOR: Global Sovereign Debt Monitor…