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The new EU Development Commissioner: from Cutting Ribbons to Influencing Global Development?

Koch, Svea / Niels Keijzer / Christine Hackenesch (2014)
The Current Column, 04. November 2014

This week, the new EU Development Commissioner takes office. Immediate crises response and three major global events ask for an ambitious and risk-taking Development Commissioner.

Boosting or hindering aid effectiveness? An assessment of systems for measuring agency results

Holzapfel, Sarah (2014)
Discussion Paper 31/2014

This paper analyses the results reporting practices of ten bi- and multilateral donor agencies and assesses the implications of agency-wide results measurement systems for aid effectiveness.

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Berlin, 13. November 2014

Am 1. November 2014 hat das neue europäische Führungsteam um Kommissionspräsident Juncker seine Arbeit aufgenommen. Keines der derzeitigen Kernprobleme der EU lässt sich ohne einen Ausbau globaler Initiativen Europas lösen. Europa muss noch mehr globale Gestaltungsmacht werden. Die neue Kommission wird sich mit Tatkraft den drängenden…

The UN and a new set of goals: Fit-for-Purpose?

Bonn, 12. December 2014

While the United Nations (UN) are central to the process of determining the new set of goals that will follow the Millennium Development Goals in 2015, there has been little introspection on its own organisational capacity to help countries to meet them. Which role should it play in the implementation of the new agenda? How does the…

Aid reform: southern voices excluded from crucial discussions

Keijzer, Niels / Adam Moe Fejerskov (2014)
External Publications

The EU and its partners on development: how strategic on the ground?

Castillejo, Clare / Christine Hackenesch (2014)
External Publications

The EU and its partners on development: how strategic on the ground?

Castillejo, Clare / Christine Hackenesch (2014)
External Publications

Aid was yesterday, what comes next?

Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel / Sebastian Paulo (2015)
The Current Column, 16. February 2015

On 2 February 2015 the House of Commons of the British Parliament released a report on what ‘beyond aid’ means for the future of British development cooperation.

World climate treaty approaches final straight: everything still to play for!

Bauer, Steffen / Clara Brandi (2015)
The Current Column, 18. February 2015

The signatories to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change reach agreement on a draft text for a new international climate treaty, though the most contentious points were not addressed.

The future of the ACP-EU partnership post-2020: options for Germany and the EU

Furness, Mark / Christine Hackenesch / Niels Keijzer (2014)
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Die Global Governance-Qualität der internationalen Aid Effectiveness Agenda: eine theoretische Analyse und Bewertung der Systemreform der internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Ashoff, Guido (2015)
Studies 87

Die Studie untersucht die seit Jahren betriebene umfassende Systemreform der internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, deren Wirksamkeit nachhaltig verbessert werden soll.

Beyond aid: a conceptual perspective on the transformation of development cooperation

Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel / Sebastian Paulo (2014)
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Do health conditions determine the flow of external health resources? Evidence from panel data

Stepping, Katharina M. K. (2015)
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Supporting democracy abroad: an assessment of leading powers

Faust, Jörg / Julia Leininger (2014)
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Aid effectiveness meets domestic politics: the case of EU budget support

Koch, Svea (2014)
External Publications

A typology of political conditionality beyond aid: conceptual horizons based on lessons from the European Union

Koch, Svea (2015)
External Publications

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…

Aid reform: the OECD is saving face but losing legitimacy

Fejerskov, Adam Moe / Niels Keijzer (2015)
External Publications

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

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.