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Africa’s untapped economic potential

Altenburg, Tilman (2020)
The Current Column, 27. January 2020

Sub-Saharan Africa needs 25 million new jobs a year. Radical changes in the global economy are unlocking fresh prospects, but domestic demand offers the greatest opportunity.

Using behavioral science to increase recycling in Argentina

Castaneda, Jorge Luis / Mario Negre / Anna Pegels (2019)
External Publications

Scaling-up renewable energy deployment in North Africa

Vidican, Georgeta (2015)
External Publications

Green hydrogen in Namibia: opportunities and risks

Altenburg, Tilman / Anne Kantel (2024)
Discussion Paper 6/2024

Namibia hopes to benefit from green hydrogen markets. We assess the related opportunities and risks. If offtake agreements materialise, export revenues may be substantial. Job and industrial development effects will remain limited. How public revenues are used will determine development outcomes.

Green economic policy and development research: lessons for the future

Bonn, 09. May 2025

This workshop mainly consisted of three panels: What is good green economic policy? Our economies must become greener: decarbonised, less material-intensive, circular. However, green alternatives often lack cost-competitiveness where environmental costs are externalised. Willingness to pay for the environment is declining, as people…

Nature-based solutions: don’t forget their social dimension!

Beck, Tanja / Keiser, Michaela / Rodriguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Deneault, Andrew (2021)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

A Renewables Club to change the world

Messner, Dirk / Hans Joachim Schellnhuber / Jennifer Morgan (2014)
The Current Column, 30. April 2014

The climate crisis needs an urgent international response, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently reminded us.

Is radical technology scepticism still appropriate today?

Stamm, Andreas (2019)
The Current Column, 01. April 2019

Hans Jonas has had a significant influence on the “ecological imperative”. In view of eroding planetary boundaries, however, is it still completely valid today?

Designing a socially inclusive transformation

Jambi, 08. August 2016

Research has shown that forest conservation can create benefits for local communities. But forest conservation is not always leading to “win-win” outcomes. In the context of REDD+ and the oil palm boom the basic agrarian questions of who owns what and who gains what are (re-)gaining importance. Against this backdrop this workshops sought…

Sustainability standards and sustainable development: synergies and trade offs of transnational governance

Brandi, Clara (2016)
External Publications

Effects of social protection on food consumption and nutrition

Burchi, Francesco (2021)
External Publications

Bottom-up or top-down?

Bonn, 26. June 2025

Policy coherence is widely seen as a critical tool for countries to advance their climate and sustainable development commitments. Recent research has shown that the consequences from effective policy coherence efforts tend to deliver broader societal benefits and inequality reduction; while, in contrast, incoherent policymaking not only…

Mario Negre

Mario Negre is Economist and former Senior Researcher of the Research Programme "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems".

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.

How important is global value chain participation for export upgrading

Ndubuisi, Gideon / Solomon Owusu (2021)
External Publications

With which H2 can a global hydrogen economy be constructed?

Stamm, Andreas / Rita Strohmaier / Ece Oyan (2023)
The Current Column, 16. October 2023

Germany should develop strategies at an early stage to pursue the goal of a green, not blue, hydrogen economy. Future hydrogen partnerships with third countries should prioritise electrolytically produced hydrogen throughout.

Trump’s tariffs as a risk for the Global South and possible options

Kornher, Lukas / Clara Brandi (2025)
The Current Column, 24. March 2025

It is ultimately the economically weaker states that will pay the price in a large-scale trade war.

Responsibility for financing biodiversity conservation: an analysis of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Lehmann, Ina (2017)
External Publications

The behavioural lens: taking a behavioural vantage point to improve the success of development programmes

Kaplan, Lennart / Sascha Kuhn / Jana Kuhnt (2020)
Briefing Paper 2/2020

An essential prerequisite for successfull policies is supportive behaviour of targeted populations. We present the Theory of Planned Behaviour which helps to systematically understand factors that influence human reactions and may support the design and implementation of development programmes.

How important is global value chain participation (GVC) to export upgrading

Ndubuisi, Gideon / Solomon Owusu (2020)
External Publications