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The Marshall Plan with Africa – Looking ahead to the principles of development effectiveness

Rudolph, Alexandra / Sarah Holzapfel (2017)
The Current Column, 02. May 2017

Development Minister Müller’s Marshall Plan with Africa includes key points for a new German development strategy with Africa. The Marshall Plan should include development effectiveness criteria for public and private players from the beginning, and thereby take the development effectiveness agenda further.

Financial market regulation must also help refugees and migrants

Schraven, Benjamin / Birgit Schmitz (2015)
The Current Column, 13. April 2015

The plight of refugees and displaced persons continues to captivate public attention and dominate political discourse in Germany and Europe. This is for instance seen in the ongoing dispute between the German central government and the federal states over supposedly unrealistic forecasts of refugee numbers, the public debate in Germany on xenophobia following an arson attack on a future refugee home in Saxony-Anhalt or the Greek defence minister's threat to send refugees to Germany.

Berlin: cautious launch for new global development cooperation

Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel / Timo Mahn (2014)
The Current Column, 17. March 2014

What makes the DCF, which is little known outside expert groups, an important platform for future debates on development policy? This question can be answered by presenting four theses.

Capital investments in fossil fuels: The Flight of the Investors

Wolff, Peter (2014)
The Current Column, 10. March 2014

Economists and climate politicians agree that a price for CO2 emissions would be the best instrument to reduce emissions and steer investors towards investments in low-carbon energy production, but this is still a long way away.

Griefs for Jörg Meyer-Stamer

Griefs for Jörg Meyer-Stamer In Memoriam: the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) griefs for Jörg Meyer-Stamer On the eve of 1 May 2009 Jörg Meyer-Stamer, having reached the age of only 50, unexpectedly died of a grave illness. Jörg Meyer-Stamer worked at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) from 1988 to 1998. The institute’s staff members mourn the passing of a colleague whose…

Fragmentation or Pluralism? The organisation of development cooperation revisited

Bonn, 10. October 2013

1. Conference theme International development cooperation is characterised by a diversification of goals, approaches and a proliferation of actor constellations. While these fundamental changes of the development cooperation landscape have been reflected in the aid- and development-effectiveness processes, the international development…

Linking aid effectiveness with the 2030 Agenda: three steps

Holzapfel, Sarah / Alexandra Rudolph (2017)
The Current Column, 06. March 2017

Development cooperation should be used as a tool to sustainably improve living conditions in partner countries.

Economic Partnership Agreements: Time is running out

Brandi, Clara / Dominique Bruhn (2014)
The Current Column, 29. September 2014

1 October 2014 is the deadline for the conclusion of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union (EU) and a group of states in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP states). If the agreements are not signed by that date, African countries will fear a deterioration in their conditions for exporting to the EU.

Promising action for nature and climate is easy, credible action a whole different matter

Chan, Sander / Idil Boran / Andrew Deneault (2022)
The Current Column, 07. November 2022

Governments and other actors must go beyond mere implementation and take bold steps to raise ambition.

Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED)

GTED is the first global database that brings together available data on tax expenditures. The GTED is a collaborative project of IDOS and CEP.

Europe's Double Standards in the Face of International Law

El-Haddad, Amirah / Aboushady, Nora (2025)
The Current Column, 24. June 2025

Rather than affirming violations of international law, Germany should end arms sales that fuel ongoing wars.

Sub- and non-state climate action: a framework to assess progress, implementation and impact

Hale, Thomas .N. / Sander Chan / Angel Hsu / Andrew Clapper / Cynthia Elliott / Pedro Faria / Takeshi Kuramochi / Shannon McDaniel / Milimer Morgado / Mark Roelfsema / Mayra Santaella / Neelam Singh / Ian Tout / Chris Weber / Amy Weinfurter / Oscar Widerberg (2020)
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„Offene strategische Autonomie“: eine entwicklungspolitische Standortbestimmung und Positionierung für die deutsche Entwicklungspolitik

Klingebiel, Stephan (2024)
Policy Brief 26/2024

Der Policy Brief gibt einen Überblick und Einschätzungen zu Debatten über Entwicklungspolitik. Er befasst sich mit der Notwendigkeit, die deutsche Entwicklungspolitik angesichts veränderter internationaler Kontexte langfristig neu auszurichten und Reformen anzustoßen.

Sustainability standards and global governance: experiences of emerging economies

Negi, Archna / Jorge Antonia Pérez-Pineda, Jorge Antonia / Johannes Blankenbach (Eds.) (2020)
External Publications

Realizing the promise of Paris: Three ways of strengthening non-state and subnational climate action

Van Asselt, Harro / Sander Chan / Idil Boran / Thomas Hale / Lukas Hermwille / Charles Roger (2020)
External Publications

Development Finance in Times of Multiple Crises

Online, 13. March 2024

Development finance faces a range of challenges in times of multiple crises. On this background, upcoming summits and forums should provide opportunities to enable progress. On 13 March, the IDOS finance team hosted an online event titled „Development Finance in Times of Multiple Crises„. Moderated by Christoph Sommer (IDOS), the event…

Land leasing in a post-land reform context: insights from Zimbabwe

Mudimu, George T. / Ting Zuo / Ashfaq Ahmad Shah / Nkumbu Nalwimba / Abdou Matsalabi Ado (2020)
External Publications

The emerging global challenge of data authoritarianism

Bonn, 16. November 2023

With the rise of digital economies and digital innovations, issues surrounding data are becoming increasingly important in public debates around the world. While new challenges have emerged regarding data misuses in the past years, the political, legal and multilateral responses have been lagging, partly due to the complexity of these new…

Global stocktake and the SDG mid-term review as opportunities for integration

Hermwille, Lukas / Adis Dzebo / Gabriela Iacobuţă / Wolfgang Obergassel (2023)
External Publications

Better integrating climate action and sustainable development can help to enhance ambition of the next Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) as well as implementation of the SDGs. Governments should use this year’s opportunity to emphasise the links between climate and sustainable development.

Global Tax Expenditures Transparency Index

Redonda, Agustin / Lucas Millan / Christian von Haldenwang / Flurim Aliu (2023)
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