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Conclusion, outlook and policy recommendation

Chaturvedi, Sachin / Thomas Fues / Jorge A. Pérez Pineda / Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, (2015)
External Publications

Addis Ababa: a one-time opportunity

Berensmann, Kathrin (2015)
The Current Column, 13. July 2015

The UN Conference on Financing for Development begins in Addis Ababa today. It is the first of three world summits on key issues of global sustainable development taking place in the space of just six months.

Connected, contested and complex – Why Europe needs a global strategy

Messner, Dirk / Ewald Wermuth / Giovanni Grevi / Teresa Ribera / Kevin Watkins (2015)
The Current Column, 03. July 2015

Hidden in the small print of last week’s European Council conclusions was an important commitment leading to a "EU global strategy on foreign and security policy"

Financing the green transformation: how to make green finance work in Indonesia

Volz, Ulrich / Judith Böhnke / Laura Knierim / Katharina Richert / Greta-Maria Röber / Vanessa Eidt (2015)
Books

Financing global development: Beware of ‘end poverty’ euphoria and trigger-happy reform of concessional finance

Garroway, Christopher / Helmut Reisen (2015)
Briefing Paper 12/2015

The client base of concessional finance windows at the major multilateral development banks is shrinking, yet extreme poverty globally may still amount to more than half a billion in 2025. This Briefing Paper offers strategic options for the multilateral soft windows to maintain their relevance.

Decarbonisation is no mean feat

Bauer, Steffen (2015)
The Current Column, 29. June 2015

25 June 2015. Less than three weeks have passed since the G7 leaders explicitly committed to the "decarbonisation of the global economy" at Schloss Elmau. Once again, Angela Merkel was lauded as the Climate Chancellor. Yet the word from Germany's Economics Ministry is that the envisaged climate levy for coal-fired power plants has been scrapped. If this is true, it would only underscore the fact that decarbonisation is no mean feat.

Advancing an international Energiewende policy

Potsdam, 29. June 2015

Over the past two decades, Germany has emerged as a frontrunner in the development of renewable energy. Its ambitious policies to support the deployment of renewable energy not only initiated the German Energiewende , they also helped stimulate a global process of innovation and diffusion of renewable energy technologies. While these…

The nuclear deal with Iran: adding fuel to the fire or ushering in peace in the Middle East?

Trautner, Bernhard (2015)
The Current Column, 26. June 2015

Only if a nuclear deal is achieved as planned by the end of June 2015 will sanctions against Iran be lifted. Such an agreement with Iran offers more opportunities than risks in the long term.

Financing global development: The role of local currency bond markets in Sub-Saharan Africa

Berensmann, Kathrin / Florence Dafe / Nannette Lindenberg / Ulrich Volz (2015)
Briefing Paper 11/2015

While in sub-Saharan Africa local currency bond markets have remained weakly developed, it is important to promote their development as they have significant potential to mobilise the long-term financial resources needed for achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Financing global development: Can foreign direct investments be increased through international investment agreements?

Berger, Axel (2015)
Briefing Paper 9/2015

Developing countries signed international investment agreements to attract foreign investments. The empirical evidence suggests they are no panacea in this respect. A debate is needed about how these agreements can be reformed to promote foreign investments while preserving policy space.

Financing global development: The role of central banks

Dafe, Florence / Ulrich Volz (2015)
Briefing Paper 8/2015

In many developing and emerging economies, central banks have begun over the past decade to place renewed emphasis on the promotion of economic development and structural transformation, looking beyond narrow mandates for macroeconomic stability.

Relaunch of the Research Network External Democracy Promotion with Leibniz Funding

Relaunch of the Research Network External Democracy Promotion with Leibniz Funding Forschungsnetzwerk „Externe Demokratisierungspolitik“ künftig mit Förderung durch die Leibniz-Gemeinschaft Press Release of 9 May 2015 The Research Network has entered a new thematic and organisational phase under funding from the Leibniz Competition for the time period of 2015-2018. A kick-off meeting with all network members on May 7-8, 2015, at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt…

50 years

In 2014, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) celebrates its 50th anniversary. This special bundles information, historical backgrounds and opinions around five decades of DIE and represents a synopsis of the anniversary events with pictures and videos.

China-Africa cooperation: promises, practice and prospects

Grimm, Sven (2015)
External Publications

World Bank and DIE broaden partnership

World Bank and DIE broaden partnership World Bank Group and German Development Institute broaden partnership to tackle global poverty and inequality Press Release of 22 June 2015 Ending extreme poverty is one of the most important issues on the international agenda, and is central to the Sustainable Development Goals, which will be adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015. The past few decades have seen major progress in poverty reduction;…

The Politics of Fighting Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion

Bonn, 23. June 2015

Reports on worldwide tax avoidance, tax fraud and illicit global financial flows (IFF) have been appearing more and more frequently in recent times. In spite of the attention which such revelations attract, the international community is still far from an effective system of controls. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and…

Poverty and Shared Prosperity

Bonn, 22. June 2015

Fighting poverty is one of the most important tasks of the international development agenda and will logically take a central role in the post-2015 agenda . In the past, major progress has been achieved in poverty reduction. However, many of those who emerged from poverty in recent years remain vulnerable to shocks and slowdowns in…

Changing water politics in the Nile basin

Bonn, 17. June 2015

A fter four years of escalating tensions between downstream and upstream countries in the Nile basin, in particular in view of Ethiopia’s construction of its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), some recent developments have provided reasons for optimism over the future of cooperation in the world’s longest river. Last February Egypt…

G-7: a turning point in climate policy or empty words?

Lütkenhorst, Wilfried / Anna Pegels (2015)
The Current Column, 15. June 2015

Climate policy was one of the agenda items at the G7 summit. What should we make of the decisions? How serious is the G7’s commitment to the long-term decarbonisation of the global economy?

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Bonn, 11. June 2015

On 11 June 2015, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) invited to a public screening and subsequent discussion of the film "1.5° Stay Alive" by Lucian Segura at the LVR-Landesmuseum, Bonn. The film - combining several genres like documentary, music video and nature film - shows the Caribbean…