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Pathways to greening Rwanda’s cities

Online, 11. November 2025

Building on the recent joint research by the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) , the University of Rwanda , and Equilibria Ltd , which identified green job opportunities along Kigali’s construction value chain , we now seek to explore how small-scale firms can transition toward greener, more productive business…

Harnessing the Potential of Digital Sustainable Finance to Accelerate the Agenda 2030

Bonn, 08. October 2025

Digital technologies are revolutionising the financial sector. They also provide an opportunity for overcoming barriers to development and sustainable finance. For instance, big data and automated data collection allow for analysing and assessing risk and impacts at a fraction of the cost of conventional approaches. They also provide an…

Africa’s regional and global integration: introduction to the Special Issue

Brandi, Clara / Katrin Kamin / Rainer Thiele (2025)
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Green hydrogen in Namibia: opportunities and risks

Altenburg, Tilman / Anne Kantel (2024)
Discussion Paper 6/2024

Namibia hopes to benefit from green hydrogen markets. We assess the related opportunities and risks. If offtake agreements materialise, export revenues may be substantial. Job and industrial development effects will remain limited. How public revenues are used will determine development outcomes.

Unlocking the irrigation potential in sub-Saharan Africa: are public-private partnerships the way forward?

Scheumann, Waltina / Annabelle Houdret / Michael Brüntrup (2017)
Briefing Paper 7/2017

Can public-private partnerships in irrigation improve food security in Africa? Our briefing paper argues that it is possible if partnerships go beyond irrigation, farmers are organized and supported, and governments secure stable conditions especially for land and water use and protect public goods.

Lukas Frucht

Lukas Frucht is Geographer and former Researcher of the Research Programme "Transformation of political (dis-)order: Institutions, values & peace".

Trump’s tariffs as a risk for the Global South and possible options

Kornher, Lukas / Clara Brandi (2025)
The Current Column, 24. March 2025

It is ultimately the economically weaker states that will pay the price in a large-scale trade war.

East Africa’s highway to oil

Kappel, Robert / Babette Never (2015)
The Current Column, 23. January 2015

A wave of oil and gas euphoria is sweeping Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. In February 2015, the Ugandan Government will decide who will build the country's only refinery.

Investment climate and trade margins in Egypt: which factors do matter?

Aboushady, Nora / Chahir Zaki (2019)
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Sustainability standards and sustainable development: synergies and trade offs of transnational governance

Brandi, Clara (2016)
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Household micro and small enterprises in Egypt: overview and developments through 2023

El-Haddad, Amirah / Chahir Zaki (2025)
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Payment for environmental services: mobilising an epistemic community to construct dominant policy

Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Rutgerd Boelens (2015)
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Frictions between Global Configurations and National Negotiations

Berlin, 10. April 2014

Latin America is historically one of the most unequal regions in the world. In addition to their historical persistence, social inequalities in Latin America are characterized by being heavily influenced by global processes. Interdependencies with world markets, international legal structures and practices as well as sectoral policies…

Canceled: Public talks on Tunisia

Bonn, 23. August 2023

Unfortunately, we have to inform you that the event on 23 August 2023 with lectures by Dina Bishara and Holger Albrecht, for which you had registered, cannot take place due to illness. We ask for apology! The German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) invites to a public lecture event focussing on Tunisia. Two distinguished…

Tobacco contract farming in Zimbabwe: power dynamics, accumulation trajectories, land use patterns and livelihoods

Mazwi, Freedom / Walter Chambati / George T. Mudimu (2020)
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Climate change and fiscal sustainability: risks and opportunities

Agarwala, Matthew / Matt Burke / Patrycja Klusak / Kamiar Mohaddes / Ulrich Volz / Dimitri Zenghelis (2021)
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The aftermath of anti-dumping: are temporary trade barriers really temporary?

Silberberger, Magdalene / Anja Slany / Christian Soegaard / Frederik Stender (2022)
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The key to successful integration of refugees in Germany. Language skills, housing, work, social participation

Christ, Simone (2019)
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The role of various types of capital in transnational labor migration from the Philippines

Christ, Simone (2020)
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China’s engagement in Africa: opportunities and challenges for Africa

Cissé, Daouda (2013)
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