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Haiti: international aid risks replacing rather than strengthening partners

Ashoff, Guido (2013)
The Current Column, 25. February 2013

The politics of “what works”: evidence incentives and entrepreneurship in development organisations

Yanguas, Pablo (2023)
Discussion Paper 3/2023

What determines the use of evidence by national development agencies, and whose evidence matters most? Pablo Yanguas explores these important questions in a new IDOS Discussion Paper. He argues that institutionalisation and entrepreneurship play critical roles in centering policy making on evidence.

The role of indicators in development cooperation: an overview study with a special focus on the use of key and standard indicators

Holzapfel, Sarah (2014)
Studies 81

This study explores the role of indicators in development cooperation at three organisational levels: the agency level, the country level and the programme/project level. Best practices are identified and recommendations given on how to mitigate risks associated with the use of indicators.

Female wages in the Egyptian textiles and clothing industry: low pay and discrimination

El-Haddad, Amirah (2011)
External Publications

Drought, migration, and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa: what are the links and policy options?

Adaawen, Stephen / Christina Rademacher-Schulz / Benjamin Schraven / Nadine Segadlo (2019)
External Publications

Financing adaptation to climate change through budget support

Horstmann, Britta / Stefan Leiderer / Imme Scholz (2009)
Briefing Paper 2/2009

Financing sustainable investments takes more than goodwill

Lindenberg, Nannette (2013)
The Current Column, 02. September 2013

Not in my backyard? Welfare gains and social challenges: the impact of refugees on the host population in Uganda

Kuhnt, Jana / Jana Lenze / Ramona Rischke (2019)
Discussion Paper 17/2019

We exploit a natural experiment of three sudden Congolese refugee inflows to causally investigate the impact of an increased exposure to refugee presence on the Ugandan host population. We focus on the effects on female employment, household welfare and social cohesion among the host population.

Fukushima and the liberation movements in North Africa: what future for Desertec and “electricity from the desert”?

Ruchser, Matthias (2011)
The Current Column, 04. April 2011

Now what? European foreign and development policy after Brexit

Hackenesch, Christine / Thomas Henökl / Niels Keijzer (2016)
The Current Column, 27. June 2016

The British have decided to leave the EU, with a narrow majority of 52 percent. What does the impending Brexit mean for European foreign and development policy?

Large scale investments in agricultural land – historical and recent evolutions: who is profiting, who or what is developed?

Brüntrup, Michael (2013)
External Publications

UN80: Making room for what’s possible

Berlin, 30. June 2025

Triggered by drastic funding shortfalls, the United Nations has embarked on a new reform initiative in its 80 th year. A longstanding reform backlog and the need to adjust the United Nations to a changing global landscape only add to the urgency for significant reforms. The goal is to make the United Nations, in the words of the UN…

Mapping giant honey bee nests in Palawan, Philippines through a transdisciplinary approach

Matias, Denise Margaret / Till Stellmacher / Christian Borgemeister / Jun G. Cayron / Henrik von Wehrden (2017)
External Publications

Small islands, grand challenges?

Bauer, Steffen / Benjamin Schraven (2014)
The Current Column, 01. September 2014

Climate change and disaster risk management will be high on the agenda as small island states are particularly at risk from the impacts of climate change, especially rising sea levels. How to deal responsibly with the prospect that these countries will become virtually uninhabitable remains one of the great unresolved questions of international climate policy and international law.

The SDGs on the threshold of Germany’s election year 2021

Kranholdt, Dominic (2020)
The Current Column, 19. November 2020

The Bundestag debate on sustainability could serve as momentum to bring the 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals into focus in the 2021 election year.

Interconnections Zone During Cop23

Bonn, 06. November 2017

Parallel to COP 23, DIE hosted the Interconnections Zone from 6 to 17 November 2017. The Zone’s objective was to continue the dialogue of trade-offs and synergies between the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development , which kicked off earlier this year at the Interconnections Conference . Conveniently located…

G20 support for SDGs

Berensmann, Kathrin (2016)
External Publications

Tropical marine sciences: knowledge production in a web of path dependencies

Partelow, Stefan / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Paula Senff / Moritz Stäbler / Achim Schlüter (2020)
External Publications

Germany’s Energiewende – transformation of the energy system

, 10. October 2014

Programme Session 1: Green and Inclusive Energy Systems Georgeta Vidican , Department “Sustainable Economic and Social Development”, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Session 2: The Great Transformation Dirk Messner , Director, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für…

Working with civil society in authoritarian contexts? The case of Niger

Gutheil, Lena (2024)
External Publications