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Tackling income inequality: what works and why?

Cuesta, Jose / Mario Negre / Ana Revenga / Maika Schmidt (2018)
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Governing the transformations towards sustainability

Leininger, Julia / Ines Dombrowsky / Dirk Messner / Anita Breuer / Constantin Ruhe / Hannah Janetschek / Hermann Lotze-Campen (2018)
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Mainstreaming South-South and triangular cooperation: work in progress at the United Nations

Haug, Sebastian (2021)
Discussion Paper 15/2021

This paper shows how the United Nations (UN) has tried to mainstream support for South-South and triangular cooperation (SSTC). It provides a scorecard of UN entities and identifies key factors that condition the heterogeneous and increasingly controversial trajectory of SSTC at the UN.

Identifying future growth potentials: a consolidated approach

Altenburg, Tilman / Wilfried Lütkenhorst (2017)
Briefing Paper 15/2017

How can policynmakers anticipate future growth opportunities? We asssess various methodologies and highlight the to need to combine quantitative tools with qualitative techniques that allow to account for the possibility of disruptive structural change as well as societal preferences.

Annual Report 2009-2010

Annual Report 2009-2010 Published: “Annual Report 2009-2010” of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Press Release of 15 December 2010 Today, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) has published its Annual Report 2009 - 2010. The UN-Summit on the Millennium Development Goals in New York, the Conference on Biological Diversity in Nagoya and the Climate Conferences in Copenhagen…

Laos on its way to WTO membership: challenges and opportunities for developing high-value agricultural exports

Wiemann, Jürgen / Verena Ashoff / Melanie Grad / Anna Katharina Meyer / Stefanie (2009)
Studies 51

On the potential of sovereign state-contingent debt in contributing to better public debt management and enhancing sustainability outcomes

Volz, Ulrich (2022)
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Bracing for the typhoon: climate change and sovereign risk in Southeast Asia

Beirne, John / Nuobu Renzhi / Ulrich Volz (2021)
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Tax Expenditure Country Report: Morocco

Mourji, Fouzi (2025)
Books

Livelihoods transformation and climate change adaptation: the case of smallholder water buffalo farmers in the Philippines

Escarcha, Jacquelyn F. / Jonatan A. Lassa / Eric P. Palacpac / Kerstin K. Zander (2020)
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Global Climate Action Beyond 2020

Bonn, 14. June 2019

Global Climate Action Beyond 2020 explores the role of non-state and subnational actors and initiatives between them in post-2020 climate governance. Efforts by such actors are crucial to demonstrating a multiplicity of solutions and to accelerate low-carbon and climate resilient transitions. This is especially urgent as current…

Green Growth, Degrowth or Postgrowth?

Bonn, 11. June 2019

Since the first industrial revolution, economic growth has enabled unprecedented increases in living standards for ever larger global populations. Yet, the current pattern of growth is environmentally unsustainable. Some of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems are about to collapse irreversibly with catastrophic effects on biodiversity,…

Peaceland: Effectiveness of peace missions

Bonn, 02. March 2016

Why do international interventions often fail to reach their full potential? Severine Autesserre offers a new explanation and shows how everyday practices, habits and narratives of peacebuilders have counterproductive effects. These everyday elements shape the intervention from the bottom up and reproduce ways of working that have been…

Pro-Poor Innovation - The case of effective biomass usage in rural households

Bonn, 15. April 2010

Schlagworte wie „Social Innovations“ , „Pro-Poor Innovations“ oder „ Bottom of the Pyramid Innovations“ gewinnen im internationalen Diskurs sowohl innerhalb der Privatwirtschaft als auch im Geberumfeld zunehmend an Bedeutung. Im Rahmen des Arbeitskreises Innovationssystemförderung beschäftigen sich die deutschen…

A multilateral investment agreement: a road to nowhere?

Berger, Axel (2016)
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Un-gendering the Ocean: why women matter in ocean governance for sustainability

Gissi, Elena / Michelle Portmann / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2018)
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Political ecology of REDD+ in Indonesia agrarian conflicts and forest carbon

Hein, Jonas (2019)
Books

Science and digitalization for a better future

Hornidge, Anna Katharina / Alyssa Jade McDonald-Bärtl / Edgar Pieterse (2023)
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Modern Islam and the modern West

Bonn, 12. December 2012

On 12 December 2012, Abdolkarim Soroush , one of the best-known philosophers of the Islamic world, gave a public lecture at the German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn. In his talk “Modern Islam and the modern West” Soroush discussed different worldviews and interpretations of modernity,…