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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)
External Publications

Governance for the integrated implementation of the 2030 Agenda

The 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change set ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), requires a deeper understanding of synergies and conflicts.

Keeping global sustainability in mind

Berger, Axel (2022)
The Current Column, 20. June 2022

The German Government launched an ambitious sustainability agenda in early 2022 as part of its G7 Presidency. Less than two months later, it was confronted with Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, requiring a change of priorities and calling old certainties into question.

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

Up-scaling co-benefits of sustainable consumption for development

Bonn, 13. June 2022

Environmentally sustainable consumption is now high on the agenda of researchers and policymakers in rich countries. In contrast, in developing countries the consuming middle classes are just emerging, mostly in cities, and concerns about the environmental footprint of consumption are only slowly entering the policy agenda. Given the…

Green jobs in cities: challenges and opportunities in African and Asian intermediary cities

Scholz, Wolfgang / Michael Fink (2022)
Discussion Paper 7/2022

Cities adopting a green transformation process can minimise their environmental impact and maximise green economic opportunities, including job creation, and improve quality of life for their residents. This paper assesses fields of action for African and Asian mid-sized cities.

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…

Disentangling the impact of trade barriers on wages: evidence from the MENA region

Aboushady, Nora / Yasmine Kamal / Chahir Zaki (2022)
External Publications

Structural Change, Productivity Growth and Labour Market Turbulence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mensah, Emmanuel / Solomon Owusu / Neil Foster-McGregor / Adam Szirmai (2023)
External Publications

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

How Caribbean Economies Will Benefit

Online, 10. May 2022

This ‘High-Level Regional Roundtable on Investment Facilitation for Development: How Caribbean Economies Will Benefit’ is co-organised by the International Trade Centre (ITC), the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Commission of the Organisation of…

Powerful EU support to Ukraine would defeat Russian war aims

Furness, Mark / Julian Bergmann (2022)
The Current Column, 09. May 2022

The EU should make every effort to support the humanitarian response to the crisis, the people it has displaced, and the countries where they have sought refuge.

Chinese telecommunications companies in Africa: competition or partnership with African telecommunications companies?

Cissé, Daouda (2022)
External Publications

Sustainable Global Supply Chains Annual Report 2022

Altenburg, Tilman / Jann Lay / Günther Maihold / Rainer Thiele (2022)
Books

Directional predictability and time-frequency spillovers among clean energy sectors and oil price uncertainty

Urom, Cristian / Hela Mzoughi / Gideon Ndubuisi / Khaled Guesmi (2022)
External Publications

Aligning the financial system with net-zero emissions

Online, 26. April 2022

Finance is critical to achieving deep decarbonisation by 2050. Article 2.i.c of the 2015 Paris Agreement sets out the goal of “making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development”. Across the financial system, banks and investors need not only to analyse and mitigate…

Bold steps are needed to tackle the emerging food crisis

Brüntrup, Michael (2022)
The Current Column, 25. April 2022

Practical initiatives are required to counter the effects of the Ukraine war, but there is also a need to update the way the global food system is governed in the long term.

Urbanisation and rural development in developing countries: a review of pathways and impacts

Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu (2022)
Discussion Paper 5/2022

This paper reviews the current state of literature on the impacts of urbanisation on rural development in developing countries, with special emphasis to the channels through which urbanisation affect rural economic development.The paper also identifies knowledge gaps that require further research.