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2022 Jump to: Dezember 2022 November 2022 Oktober 2022 September 2022 August 2022 Juli 2022 Juni 2022 Mai 2022 April 2022 März 2022 Februar 2022 Januar 2022 Dezember 2022 Die Ampel und die Religion: Weniger Interesse am R-Faktor Eigentlich will die Bundesregierung den Bereich „Religion und Außenpolitik“ stärken. Auch im Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) hat das Interesse am R-Faktor nachgelassen. Zwar gehe die Kooperation mit…

Low carbon technology solutions and transitions

Online, 07. April 2022

A wealthy low-carbon economic development is hardly conceivable without technological innovation and changes in socio-technical systems (Rosenbloom et al 2020). Achieving net-zero emissions while not jeopardizing efforts to reduce poverty requires innovation and a fast transition towards zero emissions across all sectors including energy,…

Wage effects of global value chains participation and position: An industry-level analysis

Ndubuisi, Gideon \ Solomon Owusu (2022)
External Publications

What possible futures are conceivable for mobility in African metropolises?

Asimeng, Theodore (2022)
External Publications

The EU taxonomy for sustainable activities: an experiment

Hilbrich, Sören (2022)
The Current Column, 28. March 2022

The EU taxonomy for sustainable activities is a grand experiment. It carries the promise to define objectives for private enterprises that go beyond the pure maximisation of profits.

Digging Deeper

Online, 23. March 2022

This year's theme for World Water Day is “Groundwater - making the invisible visible”. Although not directly observable with our eyes, groundwater represents the largest share of our global freshwater resources. Especially in many arid and semi-arid areas, where the potential for surface water use has already been exhausted, groundwater…

Carbon pricing and complementary incentives

Online, 22. March 2022

Most emitters do not pay for the harm they are doing. Arguably, the single most important measure for decarbonisation is to introduce a carbon price that is high enough to curb emissions below internationally agreed thresholds for global warming. One of the big advantages of carbon pricing over other policies is the following: It creates…

The costs of making Egypt an intimate partner on security affairs

El-Haddad, Amirah / Jannis Grimm (2022)
The Current Column, 14. March 2022

The efforts by Western governments to make Egypt an intimate partner on security affairs carry significant economic and socio-political costs.

How do financial and commodity markets volatility react to real economic activity?

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

To regulate or not to regulate? Jordan’s approach to digital ride-hailing platform Careem

Zintl, Tina (2022)
External Publications

The opportunities and challenges of Industry 4.0 for industrial development: a case study of Morocco’s automotive and garment sectors

Vidican Auktor, Georgeta (2022)
Discussion Paper 2/2022

Industry 4.0 will have major implications on the future of manufacturing in Morocco. Industrial policy should focus on technological upgrading in the automotive sector, while in the garment sector interventions need to be more comprehensive, emphasising capacity building, to improve technological readiness.

Firm closures and performance in a time of pandemic

El-Haddad, Amirah / Chahir Zaki (2022)
External Publications

Capacity building for investment facilitation for development

Online, 01. February 2022

This is the 10th of a virtual event series on investment facilitation for development, held in the framework of a joint ITC/DIE project on Investment Facilitation for Development. The public virtual event will discuss capacity building for investment facilitation for development. In particular, it will focus on issues related to analysing…

Why the German G7 agenda needs a stronger social dimension

Böhl Gutierrez, Mauricio (2022)
The Current Column, 31. January 2022

The climate action proposed by the G7 must entail integrated social protection programmes to achieve an inclusive economic transformation.

Compelled to compete

Online, 13. January 2022

In the third of five research-in-progress seminars co-hosted by the American Associations of Geographers’ (AAG) Development Geographies Specialty Group and the German Development Institute (DIE), we welcome Professor Kimberley Thomas (Temple University). Prof. Thomas is a widely cited scholar of the geopolitics of water, marine systems,…

Unintended consequences of microfinance: effects on credit access for small- and medium-sized enterprises

Sommer, Christoph (2022)
External Publications

Hannes Öhler

Hannes Öhler is Economist and former Researcher of the Research Programme "Inter- and transnational cooperation".

Firms' political connections and global value chains: evidence from Egypt

Aboushady, Nora / Chahir Zaki (2021)
External Publications

Determinants of and strategies to improve take-up of agriculture insurance in sub-Saharan Africa: a review

Nshakira-Rukundo, Emmanuel / Juliet Wanjiku Kamau / Heike Baumüller (2021)
External Publications

Water aid and trade contradictions: Dutch aid in the Mozambican waterscape under contemporary capitalism

Büscher, Chris (2021)
External Publications