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The Ongoing Reform of the World Bank

Walle, Yabibal M. / Clara Brandi (2023)
The Current Column, 02. October 2023

Shareholders must make a substantial commitment to increase the lending capacity of the World Bank far beyond the $50 billion over the next ten years that was committed during the Spring Meetings.

African-European Relations (Vol. 19)

Erforth, Benedikt / Keijzer, Niels (2023)
External Publications

Germany’s Africa Policy: Time for an Update

Hackenesch, Christine / Denis M. Tull (2023)
External Publications

Germany and the EU woo rising powers

Lynders, Eva / Wulf Reiners / Johanna Vogel (2023)
The Current Column, 25. September 2023

Global cooperation must serve more than a narrow understanding of self-interest. Transnational knowledge networks are indispensable for shaping a fair and functional partnership of mutual benefit.

Sustainable reconstruction needs civil society

Houdret, Annabelle (2023)
The Current Column, 22. September 2023

The task now is to sustain this impressive momentum through the period of emergency aid and reconstruction, to continue to focus on the ‘WE’.

A decade of China-Pakistan development partnership: achievements and expectations

Ali, Murad (2023)
The Current Column, 19. September 2023

Since its launch in 2013, no other initiative has gained such global limelight as President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). There is hardly a policy think tank or academic institute across the globe that has not addressed the enterprise.

Geopolitics, the Global South and Development Policy

Klingebiel, Stephan (2023)
Policy Brief 14/2023

Far-reaching geopolitical upheavals have shaped international relations in the recent past. This policy brief discusses the new geopolitical and geo-economic context and its significance for the Global South and development policy.

Cash transfers amid shocks: A large, one-time, unconditional cash transfer to refugees in Uganda has multidimensional benefits after 19 months

Gupta, Prankur / Daniel Stein /[...]/Emmanuel Nshakira-Rukundo et al. (2024)
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The EU's approach to fragile states: conflicting norms, practices, and lessons learnt

Bergmann, Julian / Mark Furness (2023)
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Transforming our world? The 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals at half-time

Keijzer, Niels (2023)
External Publications

Job advertisment: Researcher (f/m/diverse) Science Futures

Research Programme “Transformation of Economic and Social Systems“ is looking for a Researcher (f/m/diverse)within the CRC, “Science Futures: Between ‘intensification’ and ’conservation’ discourses on African rural development”.

Paving the way for the SDG Summit?

Wisskirchen, Alma / Axel Berger (2023)
The Current Column, 04. September 2023

“It is vital that the summits in New Delhi and New York generate political momentum and also result in concrete initiatives, as the progress made halfway through the 2030 Agenda timeline is disastrously slow.“

Are Southern voices and the SDGs the way to success for India’s G20 presidency?

Dang, Vy / Eva Lynders / Wulf Reiners (2023)
The Current Column, 21. August 2023

To secure that success, India sees a solution in re-orienting its G20 narrative towards the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as an existing common point of reference and framework for cooperation.

Unintended risks for smallholder in the Global South? Example of the cocoa sector in Côte d’Ivoire

Kirioua, Alla Jacques / Michael Brüntrup (2023)
The Current Column, 15. August 2023

There are doubts, however, whether the EU regulation can really make a change for the better, or whether it has the potential to make things worse.

Supporting local actors in times of conflict: the Civil Peace Service and its various actors

Ruppel, Samantha / Bernd Rieche / T. Debey Sayndee / Christoph Schlimpert / María Requenq López / Daniela Pastoors (2023)
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EU development policy in times of polycrisis

Olivié, Iliana / Maria Santillán O’Shea / Daniele Fattibene / Geert Laporte / Niels Keijzer (2023)
External Publications

Press release: Connect climate action to sustainable development

Press release of 5 Juli 2023: Connect climate action to sustainable development to get the world on track for global goal attainment

Who wants to leave? Global survey evidence on how individual emigration aspirations differ between peaceful and conflict-affected contexts

Ruhe, Constantin / Jana Kuhnt (2023)
External Publications

Messner, Dirk

Dirk Messner is director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

Health financing in times of multiple crises: analysis and recommendation

Strupat, Christoph / Pooja Balasubramanian / Srinivasa Srigiri / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2023)
Policy Brief 11/2023

COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of health systems in LMICs and highlights the need for renewed health financing efforts. Governments of LMICs and development partners should consider the large positive socioeconomic effects of investments in health systems and protect spending on health.