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Agricultural credit provision: what really determines farmers’ participation and credit rationing?

Asante-Addo, Collins / Jonathan Mockshell / Manfred Zeller / Khalid Siddig / Irene Egyir (2016)
External Publications

Development consultants and contractors: for-profit companies in the changing world of ‘Aidland’

Online, 18. November 2021

In the first of five research-in-progress seminars co-hosted this autumn and winter by the American Associations of Geographers’ (AAG) Development Geographies Specialty Group and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Professor Emma Mawdsley of the University of Cambridge is asking for…

Participants of the African-German Leadership Academy 2021

Participants of the African-German Leadership Academy 2021 is an innovative training and dialogue programme bringing together young professionals from Germany and its reform partner countries.

Hydro-social dynamics of miningscapes: obstacles to implementing water protection legislation in Mongolia

Schoderer, Mirja / Daniel Karthe / Ines Dombrowsky / Jampel Dell'Angelo (2021)
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Refugee crisis and challenges of integration

Jaji, Rose (2016)
External Publications

Integration can be derailed by refugees seeing learning a new language as the beginning of losing themselves. While language is an integral part of culture, learning a new language is not necessarily about being stripped of one’s culture. Rather, learning a new language is about taking a step towards rebuilding life in a new country. While learning can be considered a matter of personal choice, failure to learn the adopted country’s language limits migrants’ or refugees’ chances in the job market.

The End of the International Order as we know it

Online, 08. May 2025

The second Trump administration is shaking up the international order. Within little more than three months, the US has withdrawn from international UN entities, has frozen international aid, has imposed tariffs and escalated trade wars. How are the current changes in the international order perceived in different countries? What are the…

Fuel subsidy reforms: lessons from the literature and assessing the price shock for different sectors through an input-output table in the case of Angola

Bambe, Bao-We-Wal / Chadi Bou Habib / Joaquin Marandino, Peregalli (2024)
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Foreign aid transparency amid politicization

Janus, Heiner / Tim Röthel (2025)
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Opportunities in regional and global spaces

Johannesburg, 18. June 2025

Session in OTT Conference, “Think Tanks + Impact: Challenging our Understanding of Influence” Policy impact is hard to plan for and measure in the national context of a think tank; it often is an ambiguous process without clear notions of ‘causal relations’. This challenge redoubles when we look at operations in (international) networks…

Plural sustainabilities: reflections and ways ahead

Gilgan, Sandra / Dennis Avilés-Irahola / Kehinde Balogun / [...] / Michael Brüntrup / Marcelo Inacio Da Cunha et al. (2025)
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Poverty alleviation and local environmental degradation: an empirical analysis in Colombia

Malerba, Daniele (2020)
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Knowledge management for sustainable agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

Vienna, 11. September 2024

Innovations are the key drivers for sustainable agriculture, land, water and biodiversity conservation, poverty alleviation and food security. Knowledge is at the heart of sustainable development and a key driver for innovations, with useful knowledge derived from several sources—science, indigenous, local, private sector, etc. Effective…

A development research perspective on addressing irregular migration from Sub-Saharan Africa: implications for defence institution building and beyond

Schraven, Benjamin (2019)
External Publications

Never-ending reformism from above and dissatisfaction from below: the paradox of Moroccan post-Spring politics

Cavatorta, Francesco / Fabio Merone (2020)
Discussion Paper 16/2020

In recent years, Morocco has implemented far-reaching political reforms of modernisation and liberalisation but these have never reached the stage of a systemic change. The country's political regime is still authoritarian in nature.

Reconceptualising water management in Khorezm, Uzbekistan

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Lisa Oberkircher / Bernhard Tischbein / Gunther Schorcht / Anik Bhaduri / Usman K. Awan / Ahmad M. Manschadi (2011)
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MGG at 2nd International Convention on Sustainable Trade and Standards

Rio de Janeiro, 17. September 2019

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), through its Managing Global Governance (MGG) Programme organized the Panel Discussion: Insights of the established National Multi-Stakeholder Platforms at the 2nd International Convention on Sustainable Trade and Standards on 16-18 September 2019 in Rio…

Integrated policymaking: choosing an institutional design for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Breuer, Anita / Julia Leininger / Jale Tosun (2019)
Discussion Paper 14/2019

Integrated implementation of the 2030 Agenda will require institutional reform. To identify causes of reform blockades and enablers of innovation this study analyses how political and economic context factors influence countries’ institutional design choices when it comes to SDG-governance.

The impact of information and communication technologies on jobs in Africa: a literature review

Melia, Elvis (2019)
Discussion Paper 3/2019

Are mobile phones and the internet generating employment in Sub Saharan Africa? Policy makers tend to bet on it, whereas critical social scientists are more sceptical. This study reviews the available empirical evidence. In short: ICTs create jobs in Africa.

How to reduce poverty and address climate change? An empirical cross-country analysis and the roles of economic growth and inequality

Malerba, Daniele (2018)
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Knowledge diplomacy in climate politics: global policy-making through regional lens

Hernandez, Ariel (2018)
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