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Financing global development: Is impact investing an investment model with potential or just blowing smoke?

Lindenberg, Nannette / Caroline Pöll (2015)
Briefing Paper 20/2015

Impact investing intends to finance projects, organisations and social enterprises to intentionally create a measurable social or environmental impact alongside a financial return. Their advocates see impact bonds as a useful instrument for financing the 2030 agenda, but many challenges remain.

Agriculture in the international climate negotiations: supporting sustainable development or just dubious emission reductions?

Kaplan, Marcus (2012)
Briefing Paper 16/2012

Challenges for the new EU Commission

Brandi, Clara / Ferdi De Ville / Clara Weinhardt (2024)
The Current Column, 02. September 2024

Conflicts of objectives between geo-economics and development policy are particularly relevant for the EU's trade-related sustainability instruments.

New insights into microloans

Sommer, Christoph (2020)
The Current Column, 12. October 2020

Microcredits came in for increased criticism following the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus. They need to be re-evaluated in light of what we now know.

Why developing countries are facing a renewed debt crisis

Berensmann, Kathrin (2019)
The Current Column, 11. February 2019

The current debt crisis in low-income countries differs from previous crises. Kathrin Berensmann explains which measures can be taken.

Structural Change and Inclusive Development

Cluster "Structural Change and Inclusive Development": How can production structures be made more productive and competitive, yet socially inclusive and conducive to poverty reduction?

How does globalisation affect social cohesion?

Vrolijk, Kasper (2023)
Discussion Paper 5/2023

This paper explores the effect of globalisation on social cohesion outcomes and reviews its underlying mechanisms. Evidence points towards substantial losses in cohesion following negative globalisation changes, altering cohesion through absolute and relative changes in employment and expenditure.

Quasi-experimental evidence on carbon pricing

Vrolijk, Kasper / Misato Sato (2023)
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Trust, Efficient Contracting and Export Upgrading

Ndubuisi, Gideon / Solomon Owusu (2021)
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Disentangling the impact of trade barriers on wages: evidence from the MENA region

Aboushady, Nora / Yasmine Kamal / Chahir Zaki (2022)
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Integrating nature into debt sustainability analysis

Kraemer, Moritz / Ulrich Volz (2022)
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Sustainable Global Supply Chains Annual Report 2022

Altenburg, Tilman / Jann Lay / Günther Maihold / Rainer Thiele (2022)
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Labor-intensive public works programs in sub-Saharan Africa: experiences and implications for employment policies

Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu / Joachim von Braun (2019)
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The political economy of automotive industry development policy in middle income countries: a comparative analysis of Egypt, India, South Africa and Turkey

Black, Anthony / Pallavi Roy / Amirah El-Haddad / Kamil Yilmaz (2020)
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Politics of green energy policy

Anna Pegels / Georgeta Vidican-Auktor / Wilfried Lütkenhorst / Tilman Altenburg (2017)
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Why we need a green industrial policy

Pegels, Anna (2014)
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Demystifying adaptation finance for the private sector

Druce, Laura / Ulf Moslener / Christine Gruening / Pieter Pauw / Richenda Connell (2016)
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Electromobility in India: attempts at leadership by businesses in a scant policy space

Chaudhary, Ankur (2014)
Discussion Paper 15/2014

As the global transportation sector moves towards developing & deploying electromobility technologies, Indian automakers have also embarked on transition. This paper highlights the charecteristics of this emerging technology trajectory focusing on the trends as well as the underlying determinants.

Framework for participatory food security research in rural food value chains

Graef, Frieder / Stefan Sieber / Khamaldin Mutabazi / Folkard Asch / Hans Konrad Biesalski / Janet Bitegeko / Wolfgang Bokelmann / Michael Brüntrup / Ottfried Dietrich / Nickson Elly / Aanja Fasse / Jörn Germer / Ulrike Grote / Ludgar Herrmann / Raoul Her (2014)
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Low-carbon standards and labels in China

Brandi, Clara (2014)
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