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Fair play: the recent common agricultural policy and its limited effect on development

Rudloff, Bettina / Michael Brüntrup (2018)
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Climate change impacts and vulnerability of fallow-chickpea based farm households in India : assessment using integrated modeling approach

Nedumaran, Swamikannu / Madhu Kadiyala / Srinivasa Reddy Srigiri / V. Roberto / S. McDermid (2018)
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Unbundling the impacts of economic empowerment programmes: evidence from Malawi

Burchi, Francesco / Christoph Strupat (2018)
Discussion Paper 32/2018

We conducted a randomized control trial in order to assess the impacts of the Tingathe Economic Empowerment Project in Malawi. We find in particular that poor and labour-constrained households benefited from the project and that the provided training increased the productive use of the lump-sum.

Addressing food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa: the role of cash transfers

Burchi, Francesco / Margherita Scarlato / Giorgio D'Agostino (2018)
External Publications

What still needs to be said about the migration pact

Schraven, Benjamin / Eva Dick (2018)
The Current Column, 10. December 2018

The UN migration pact has been at the heart of an intense political debate in Germany in recent weeks. What could the pact achieve in practice?

Next steps for China’s new development agency

Liu, Wei / Heiner Janus (2018)
The Current Column, 27. November 2018

China's development agency CIDCA has published new guidelines on the the practices of all Chinese institutions engaged in foreign aid.

Armutsorientierte Klimarisikoversicherungen: die Rolle von gemeinschaftsbasierten Organisationen (CBOs)

Matias, Denise Margaret / Raúl Fernández / Marie-Lena Hutfils / Maik Winges (2018)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 12/2018

Klimarisikoversicherungen auf der Meso-Ebene eignen sich dank ihrer relativ hohen Flexibilität und großen Reichweite als Instrument zur Minderung von Ex-post-Klimarisiken – vor allem für Arme und Schutzbedürftige. Gemeinschaftsbasierte Organisationen könnten bei der Umsetzung helfen.

Why the civil service needs a 2030 Agenda update

Reiber, Tatjana / Wulf Reiners (2018)
The Current Column, 20. November 2018

Implementation of the 2030 Agenda will only succeed if the public sector makes a major contribution. A 2030 Agenda “update” will help schools of public administration prepare their students to take on new tasks.

Commercializing traditional non-timber forest products: an integrated value chain analysis of honey from giant honey bees in Palawan, Philippines.

Matias, Denise Margaret S. / Justice A. Tambo / Till Stellmacher / Christian Borgemeister / Henrik von Wehrden (2018)
External Publications

Effects of social cash transfers on the different dimensions of poverty

Bonn, 07. November 2018

On 7 November 2018, the German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungs-politik (DIE) organised a PEGNet Expert Meeting on the “Effects of social cash transfers on the different dimensions of poverty” in co-operation with the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). Daniele Malerba and…

Cities for sustainable global development

Dick, Eva (2018)
The Current Column, 29. October 2018

The theme of this year’s World Cities Day on 31 October is “Building Sustainable and Resilient Cities”. The growing importance of cities is also reflected in the self-perception of the “urban community”.

How to reduce poverty and address climate change? An empirical cross-country analysis and the roles of economic growth and inequality

Malerba, Daniele (2018)
External Publications

From income poverty to multidimensional poverty: an international comparison

Burchi, Francesco / Nicole Rippin / Claudio E. Montenegro (2018)
External Publications

Pro-poor climate risk insurance: the role of community-based organisations (CBOs)

Matias, Denise Margaret / Raúl Fernández / Marie-Lena Hutfils / Maik Winges (2018)
Briefing Paper 19/2018

Insurance provides an opportunity to address ex-post climate risks. The relative flexibility and broader reach of mesoinsurance may tackle issues of accessibility and affordability of insurance for poor and vulnerable. Community-based organisations may be an appropriate vehicle for mesoinsurance.

From income poverty to multidimensional poverty: an international comparison

Burchi, Francesco / Nicole Rippin / Claudio E. Montenegro (2018)
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Maids' and Madams' moral topographies

Vogel, Johanna (2018)
Books

Cash transfers and food security in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Burchi, Francesco / Giorgio D'Agostino / Luca Pieroni / Margherita Scarlato (2018)
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2018

2018 Jump to: Dezember 2018 November 2018 Oktober 2018 September 2018 August 2018 Juli 2018 Juni 2018 Mai 2018 April 2018 März 2018 Februar 2018 Januar 2018 Dezember 2018 Making Climate Action More Transparent and Ambitious: Lessons Learned From the NDCs This event was grounded in the notion that current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) lack sufficient ambition and clarity for achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. Moderated by Arunabha Ghosh, Council…

Linking small-scale farmers to the durum wheat value chain in Ethiopia: assessing the effects on production and wellbeing

Biggeri, Mario / Francesco Burchi / Federico Ciani / Raoul Herrmann (2018)
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Sustainable development pathways

van Vuuren, Detlef / Elmar Kriegler / Keywan Riahi / Caroline Zimm / Felix Creutzig / Anne Goujon / Arnulf Grubler / Tomoko Hasegawa / David McCollum / Raya Muttarak / Simon Parkinson / Pauline Scheelbeek / Sam Sellers / Ana Paula Aguiar / Avit Bhowmik / (2018)
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