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Moving targets

Keijzer, Niels / Christine Hackenesch (2015)
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Safeguarding the earth system as a priority for sustainable development and global ethics

Brandi, Clara (2015)
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Against all odds: strong democratic norms in the African Union

Leininger, Julia (2015)
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Water and Development in Shared Rivers: Sustainable development for all

Tawfik, Rawia (2015)
The Current Column, 19. March 2015

Bonn, 19 March 2015. This year the United Nations selected “Water and Sustainable Development” as a theme for the World Water Day on 22 March. The World Water Day reminds us that there is no human, social and economic development without clean water – from health and sanitation to food, energy production and industrialisation.

ISIS, Charlie Hebdo, and Enduring Dictatorship

Bonn, 19. March 2015

A new global order is in the making. Basic global principles such as the Westphalian order are eroding and seem to lose support globally. Equally, democracy has been on decline since 2006. Freedom House’s report Freedom in the World 2015 highlights new and disturbing global trends, including a more explicit rejection of democratic…

Evolving Perspectives on the Post-2015 Agenda

Tokyo, 19. March 2015

The world is now witnessing a rising prominence of so-called “emerging economies” such as China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa in the international political and economic sphere. The emerging economies’ role in the discussions over the post 2015 development agenda as well as their prospect for ever active engagement in the future…

SDGs and debt sustainability: an empty promise?

Berensmann, Kathrin / Maren Buchholtz (2015)
The Current Column, 16. March 2015

"Is Democracy in Decline?"

Bonn, 16. March 2015

In the last three decades, the number of democracies held steady or expanded every year from 1975 until 2007. Nothing like this continuous growth in democracy ever had been seen before in the history of the world. But then, around 2006, the expansion of freedom and democracy in the world came to a prolonged halt. Since then, there has…

World Development Report 2015: Mind, Society, and Behavior

Bonn, 12. March 2015

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) invited to a public brown bag lunch with Ryan Muldoon, member of the Core Team of the 2015 World Development Report, and Senior Research Fellow in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at the University of Pennsylvania. The World Development…

Energy - the seventh Sustainable Development Goal

Ruchser, Matthias (2015)
The Current Column, 09. March 2015

The seventh Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 7) focuses on energy. But just what is affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy? The proposed SDG provides no answers or definitions in this regard. And what does Germany need to do to achieve SDG 7? Is the German ‘Energiewende’ enough?

Do health conditions determine the flow of external health resources? Evidence from panel data

Stepping, Katharina M. K. (2015)
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ENCoRe meeting 2015

Bonn, 05. March 2015

The European Network for Conflict Research (ENCoRe) meets biannually to discuss developments in conflict data and analysis. ENCoRe brings together scholars from renowned universities across Europe and is funded as a COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) action. The Bonn meeting 2015 drawed on the research conducted over…

Benefits and costs of the air pollution targets for the post-2015 development agenda

Stepping, Katharina M. K. (2014)
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Beyond aid: a conceptual perspective on the transformation of development cooperation

Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel / Sebastian Paulo (2014)
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Erweiterter Lenkungsausschuss von SDSN Germany: Deutsche Nachhaltigkeitsarchitektur stärken

Erweiterter Lenkungsausschuss von SDSN Germany: Deutsche Nachhaltigkeitsarchitektur stärken Erweiterter Lenkungsausschuss von SDSN Germany: Deutsche Nachhaltigkeitsarchitektur stärken Pressemitteilung vom 02.03.2015 Bonn / Berlin. Auf Einladung der Co-Vorsitzenden des deutschen Sustainable Development Solutions Network ( SDSN Germany ) Dirk Messner und Klaus Töpfer, tagte am 26. Februar in Berlin erstmals dessen Erweiterter Lenkungsausschuss. Dem erweiterten…

Revisiting the finance–growth nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa: results from error correction-based panel cointegration tests

Walle, Yabibal M. (2014)
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European trade policy at an impasse

Berger, Axel (2015)
The Current Column, 02. March 2015

All eyes are currently on the negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which the European Union (EU) and the United States have been engaged in since summer 2013. This gives cause for concern, as the significance of this agreement is being overestimated by proponents and opponents alike.

Boletín informativo: evaluación de los pequeños agricultores y la dinámica de los bosques en la Amazonía peruana

Guarín, Alejandro / Hannes Hotz (2014)
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Boletín informativo: estimación del valor económico del sector forestal peruano - más allá de las ideas convencionales

Guarín, Alejandro / Hannes Hotz (2014)
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Fact sheet: estimating the economic value of Peru's forest sector: beyond conventional wisdom

Guarín, Alejandro / Hannes Hotz (2014)
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