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Not as bad as it seems? EU and US democracy promotion strategies faces China in Africa

Hackenesch, Christine (2015)
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Time for a paradigm shift in policy on Syria and the Middle East?

Trautner, Bernhard (2015)
The Current Column, 31. March 2015

With the Syrian conflict in its fifth year, is it time for a paradigm shift in Western policy on the Middle East?

Large scale land acquisitions - challenges, conflicts and partial solutions in an agro-investment lifecycle perspective

Bruentrup, Michael (2014)
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Financial performance of fertilization strategies for sustainable soil fertility management in Sudano–Sahelian West Africa 2: profitability of long-term capital investments in rockphosphate

Lamers, John P. A. / Michael Brüntrup / Andreas Buerkert (2015)
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Financial performance of fertilisation strategies for sustainable soil fertility management in Sudano-Sahelian West Africa 1: profitability of annual fertilisation strategies

Lamers, John P. A. / Michael Brüntrup / Andreas Buerkert (2015)
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Improving education outcomes by linking payments to results: an assessment of disbursement-linked indicators in five results-based approaches

Holzapfel, Sarah / Heiner Janus (2015)
Discussion Paper 2/2015

Development actors have started implementing results-based approaches, but little attention has been paid to the potential advantages and disadvantages of the specific indicators that are used. The paper analyses the indicators of five pilots programmes in education.

Theory and practice? A comparative analysis of migration and development policies in eleven European countries and the European Commission

Keijzer, Niels / Julia Héraud / Malin Frankenhaeuser (2015)
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Development for the global common good: a comment

Brandi, Clara (2015)
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Tackling Egypt’s Transformational Challenges

Vidican, Georgeta / Yasser Sherif (2015)
The Current Column, 27. March 2015

From 13-15 March 2015 the Egyptian government organized a major international event, the “Egypt Economic Development Conference”, aimed at repositioning the country on the investors’ agenda to stabilize Egypt’s economy. The outcomes of this conference are encouraging but also point to how important it is for Egypt to show commitment for a transformational agenda.

In search of a narrative for Southern providers: the challenge of the emerging economies to the development cooperation agenda

Bracho, Gerardo (2015)
Discussion Paper 1/2015

Aid reform: the OECD is saving face but losing legitimacy

Fejerskov, Adam Moe / Niels Keijzer (2015)
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The Declaration of Principles on Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam: A breakthrough or another unfair deal?

Tawfik, Rawia (2015)
The Current Column, 25. March 2015

The Declaration of Principles on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has sparked much controversy among experts and commentators in Egypt.

Declaration by SDSN Germany on G7

Declaration by SDSN Germany on G7 Declaration by SDSN Germany: G7 must embrace strong commitments towards a sustainable and just world Press release of 24 March 2015 In a declaration on the upcoming G7 Summit in Germany, the German Sustainable Development Solutions Network ( SDSN Germany ) calls on the Federal Chancellor and her G7 counterparts to agree in June in Elmau on determined contributions to global sustainable development: In the G7 countries: overcome…

Interaction Between Internal and External Actors in Democracy Promotion

Bonn, 25. March 2015

Among both practitioners and scholars of democracy promotion, there is broad consensus that democracy is not simply a good that can be exported from one country to another. External democracy promotion, by definition, involves a complex sort of interaction between external and local actors that can hardly be grasped by the notion of a…

Payment for environmental services: mobilising an epistemic community to construct dominant policy

Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Rutgerd Boelens (2015)
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Do democracies tax more? Political regime type and taxation

Garcia, Maria Melody / Christian von Haldenwang (2015)
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(Re)configuration of water resources management in Mongolia: a critical geopolitical analysis

Withanachchi, Sisira S. / Annabelle Houdret / Nergui Soninkhishig / Elisabet Ejarque Gonzalez / Ankhbold Tsogtbayar / Angelika Ploeger (2014)
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The financial sector needs to be driving the green transformation

Volz, Ulrich (2015)
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Too much fuss about China's new development bank

Wolff, Peter (2015)
The Current Column, 23. March 2015

Several European countries announced that they intend to become members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The founding of the AIIB may be interpreted as signalling the end of US hegemony within the international system of development banks. Equally, however, it could be understood as a step towards normalisation, that is, towards a greater degree of regionalisation in development financing.

The universal post-2015 agenda: how fit for purpose is the ACP-EU partnership?

Bossuyt, Jean / Niels Keijzer (2015)
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