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The granular revolution of the platform economy

Weizsäcker, Franz von (2018)
The Current Column, 22. January 2018

Freelancers and platforms are replacing employees and companies – this trend offers many opportunities, though platform companies in particular, but also policy-makers, must take responsibility for ensuring fair working conditions.

Wegner, Lisa

Wegner, Lisa Dr. Lisa Wegner Department Transformation of Economic and Social Systems Function Former Researcher Specialization Economist Work areas Development Financing Private Sector Development Agricultural Finance Rural development and food security Current Publications Mapping the interlinkages between voluntary sustainability standards and due diligence Brandi, Clara / Thomas Dietz / Paulo Mortara Batistic / Charline Depoorter / Graeme Auld / James Harrison /…

Prudent industrial policies should guide markets

Altenburg, Tilman / Wilfried Lütkenhorst (2018)
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Exploring the current position of ESD in UK higher education institutions

Fiselier, Evelien S. / James W.S. Longhurst / Georgina K. Gough (2018)
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Monitoring and evaluation in South-South Cooperation: the case of CPEC in Pakistan

Ali, Murad (2018)
Discussion Paper 1/2018

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Pakistan. Using an analytical framework aimed to assess the quality of South-South Cooperation (SCC), this discussion paper examines to what extent China adheres to SSC principles in Pakistan.

Regional migration governance: contributions to a sustainable international migration architecture

Dick, Eva / Anne Koch / Benjamin Schraven / Benjamin Etzold (2018)
Briefing Paper 1/2018

The global migration governance is in a period of transition. Although most cross-border migration and displacement takes place within regions of the Global South, the important contribution of regional organisations to the cooperation on migration and displacement is not sufficiently recognised.

Beyond headline mitigation numbers: we need more transparent and comparable NDCs to achieve the Paris Agreement on climate change

Pauw, Pieter / Richard J. T. Klein / Kennedy Mbeva / Adis Dzebo / Davide Cassanmagnago / Anna Rudloff (2017)
External Publications

COP23

COP23 Jump to: COP23 Team Publications Infographics COP23 From 6 to 17 November, the 2017 Climate Change Conference (COP 23) took place in Germany under the Fiji Presidency. DIE has been conducting research on key issues in the field of climate change, UN climate negotiations and their implications for international cooperation for many years. During COP23, DIE was involved in many of the formats held during the negotations. Within our project “ Klimalog – Research…

NDC-SDG Connections

NDC-SDG Connections Jump to: Team Publications Projects The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement (NDCs) have some important things in common. Both are universal – in the sense that they demand action in all countries of the world, and that they seek to benefit everyone, including the most vulnerable and marginalised. They are both designed to be implemented from the bottom up, as countries set…

Preventing the worst from happening is not enough.

Messner, Dirk (2018)
External Publications

We live in turbulent times. The world (economy) is becoming increasingly interconnected, as are political issues around the globe. However, it is the new nationalist approach to world affairs. This approach cannot go well in the long term.

Disciplinary diversity in marine sciences; the urgent case for an integration of research

Markus, Till / Helmuth Hillebrand / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Gesche Krause / Achim Schlüter (2017)
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Area studies at the crossroads: knowledge production after the mobility turn

Mielke, Katja / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (eds.) (2017)
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ACP-EU relations beyond 2020: engaging the future or perpetuating the past?

Bossuyt, Jean / Niels Keijzer / Alfonso Medinilla / Andrew Sherriff / Geert Laporte / Marc de Tollenaere (2017)
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Can the EU prioritise both the African Union and the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific group?

Keijzer, Niels / Alfonso Medinilla (2017)
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Putting your money where your mouth is: geographic targeting of World Bank projects to the bottom 40 percent

Öhler, Hannes / Mario Negre / Lodewijk Smets / Renzo Massari / Željko Bogetić (2017)
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Fostering sustainable global growth through green finance: what role for the G20?

Kathrin Berensmann / Ulrich Volz / Céline Bak / Amar Bhattacharya / Tian Huifang / Gerd Leipold / Lawrence MacDonald / Hannah Schindler / Isabella Alloisio / Qingqing Yang (2017)
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Responsibility for financing biodiversity conservation: an analysis of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Lehmann, Ina (2017)
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Migration and "unfinished" modernization in the Philippines, Indonesia and Mexico

Hernandez, Ariel Macaspac (2017)
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Bridging science and development: lessons learnt from two decades of development research

Callo-Concha, Daniel / Manfred Denich / John P.A. Lamers / Anna Schwachula / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Asia Khamzina / Christian Borgemeister (2017)
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Economic transformation and job creation in Mozambique

Balchin, Neil / Peter Coughlin / Phyllis Papadavid / Dirk Willem te Velde / Kasper Vrolijk (2017)
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