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The Global Gateway: juggling self-interest, geopolitical competition and developmental aspirations

Keijzer, Niels / Svea Koch / Mark Furness (2024)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

The role of good governance in reducing poverty and inequality: evidence from a scoping review of interlinkages between SDGs 16, 10 and 1

Allen, Cameron / Anita Breuer / Julia Kercher / Julia Leininger / Pooja Balasubramanian / Arvinn Gadgil (2022)
External Publications

Science-practice interactions for effective climate change adaptation: identifying new approaches for collaboration between Europe and low-income countries

Horstmann, Britta / Birgit Kuna / Marianne Lillieskold / Pieter Pauw / Rob Swart (2014)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Trans-disciplinary research: collaborative leadership and empowerment towards the sustainability of push-pull technology

Nyang'au, Isaac Mbeche / Girma Kelboro / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Charles A.O. Midega / Christian Borgemeister (2018)
External Publications

On the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment

Faus Onbargi, Alexia / Saravanan V. Subramanian / Katharina Molitor (2021)
The Current Column, 20. December 2021

The resolution could be an important contribution in helping development actors to set global and national standards to protect people against environmental harm, to provide equal access to environmental benefits, and to ensure a common minimum standard of environmental quality for everyone.

Paradigm shifts in public procurement

Stoffel, Tim / Maximilian Müngersdorff (2019)
The Current Column, 23. September 2019

Procurement in public institutions is becoming more professional and is increasingly being seen as a strategic policy instrument. This also helps in implementing social and environmental criteria in public tenders.

Building peace after war: the knowns and unknowns of external support to post-conflict societies

Fiedler, Charlotte / Karina Mroß / Jörn Grävingholt (2016)
Briefing Paper 11/2016

Most violent conflicts today are recurrences of previous wars, disclosing the significant challenge building sustainable peace poses. Analyzing research on post-conflict peace support, this briefing paper reports which types of external engagement are known to be effective and which ones are not.

Green jobs in cities: challenges and opportunities in African and Asian intermediary cities

Scholz, Wolfgang / Michael Fink (2022)
Discussion Paper 7/2022

Cities adopting a green transformation process can minimise their environmental impact and maximise green economic opportunities, including job creation, and improve quality of life for their residents. This paper assesses fields of action for African and Asian mid-sized cities.

Taxation and digitalization

Bonn, 01. October 2019

Digitalization should be considered a transformative factor for tax systems worldwide. The use of ICT in economic transactions and tax administrations entails the prospect of addressing tax compliance, evasion, and avoidance in new ways. Increased information could also provide new opportunities for tax policy design. Digitalization could…

African developments: the comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is an opportunity for African agriculture

Brüntrup, Michael (2011)
Briefing Paper 4/2011

Trade and the environmental poly-crisis: making the World Trade Organization fit to better deal with trade and environment

Akman, Sait / Axel Berger / Carlos Primo Braga / Andreas Freytag / Stormy-Annika Mildner / Claudia Schmucker / Maarten Smeets (2024)
External Publications

The urban planet: how cities save our future

Kraas, Frauke / Claus Leggewie / Peter Lemke / Ellen Matthies / Dirk Messner / Nebojsa Nakicenovic / Hans Joachim Schellnhuber / Sabine Schlacke / Uwe Schneidewind (2016)
Books

Vulnerability in the context of climate change

Dietz, Kristina / Dorothea Wehrmann (2016)
External Publications

Where are the African voices?

Adaawen, Stephen / Benjamin Schraven (2019)
The Current Column, 04. February 2019

The African perspective remains underrepresented in science, culture or politics. What about the dialogue at eye level?

Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED)

GTED is the first global database that brings together available data on tax expenditures. The GTED is a collaborative project of IDOS and CEP.

Build towns instead of camps: Uganda as an example of integrative refugee policy

Kreibaum, Merle (2016)
Briefing Paper 19/2016

Refugees are not short-term guests, they often stay for many years in their host countries. As a consequence, there are increasing calls to abandon the current policy of camps and build towns that enable the integration of the refugees. Uganda sets an informative example in this respect.

Developing Countries Navigating Global Banking Standards

Bonn, 18. December 2018

In today’s world of globalised finance, regulators even in the world’s smallest developing countries have to weigh up the international ramifications of their decisions. In this seminar, Dr. Florence Dafe (London School of Economics and Political Science) presented the results of a three-year research project titled " Developing countries…

No “Turkish Spring” – but an end to the “Turkish Model”?

Schönwälder, Gerd (2013)

Lund Dialogue and Transfer Forum on Sustainable Public Procurement

Lund, 26. September 2018

Sustainable public procurement (SPP) represents a central policy tool of the United Nations' Agenda 2030 for implementing sustainable consumption and production patterns. However, despite the enormous potential leverage effect of public demand for a transformation towards sustainability, there is a lack of academic studies on SPP. Against…

Between minilateralism and multilateralism: opportunities and risks of pioneer alliances in international trade and climate politics

Clara Brandi / Axel Berger / Dominique Bruhn (2015)
Briefing Paper 16/2015

Multilateral co-operation has come up against its limits in recent years. Minilateral or plurilateral pioneer alliances can lend new impetus to international trade and climate policy, however, they should augment and support the multilateral process rather than replace it.