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DIE ranked among the world’s best Development Think Tanks

DIE ranked among the world’s best Development Think Tanks DIE ranked among the world’s best Development Think Tanks Press release, 26 January 2017 Philadelphia / Bonn . The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) was named among the best research institutions and policy-advisers in the world. This is according to the annual Global Go To Think Tank Index Report by the University of Pennsylvania. Among the category Top…

Assessing the legal and political implications of the post-Cotonou negotiations for the Economic Partnership Agreements

Keijzer, Niels / Lorand Bartels (2017)
Discussion Paper 4/2017

In 2016 the EU and the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States intensified preparations for the upcoming negotiations on the arrangement for their relations after the Cotonou Agreement expires in 2020. This paper assesses the legal and political implications of the upcoming post-Cotonou negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreements.

Under Threat: International Academia and Press Freedom

Bonn, 25. January 2017

On 25 January 2016, the Anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution, Giulio Regeni, PhD Student at Cambridge University and Guest Researcher at German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), disappeared in Cairo. Ten days later he was found dead, with signs of cruel torture. This event, as well as the…

Perspectives Africa

Luckscheiter, Jochen / Stephan Klingebiel (2017)
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Providing Global Public Goods: The role for the G20

Bonn, 24. January 2017

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) welcomed Inge Kaul to present her recently published book on Global Public Goods (GPGs) and to discuss the concept‘s role in the light of the German G20 presidency. Inge Kaul first presented the general concept of GPGs and its challenges. Here she focused…

Rising powers and the provision of transnational public goods: conceptual considerations and features of South Africa as a case study

Klingebiel, Stephan (2017)
Discussion Paper 3/2017

The paper addresses the group of countries known as the ‘rising powers’ and the role these countries could play as regards a globalised common good. It focuses on South Africa as a case study for the main rising power on the African continent.

Trump, Brexit, populism – wither multilateralism and liberal world order?

Thomas Henökl (2017)
The Current Column, 19. January 2017

Never before has the change of administration in the United States caused this much concern globally, and never before has an US-President incited so much tension ahead of taking office.

Is world trade facing a spiral into isolationism?

Berger, Axel / Clara Brandi (2017)
The Current Column, 19. January 2017

Today will see Donald Trump sworn in as the 45th president of the USA, a move that could see the system of world trade plunge into a spiral of isolationism.

Trump, the Middle East and Germany

Trautner, Bernhard / Mark Furness (2017)
The Current Column, 19. January 2017

Which impact does a changed US policy in the Middle East have from the point of view of the German development policy and in the broader sense of international cooperation?

Why data access matters: the NDC Explorer reveals new insights on national climate action plans

Pauw, Pieter / Kennedy Mbeva / Adis Dzebo (2017)
The Current Column, 16. January 2017

With the NDC Explorer, an online visualisation tool, we aim to create more transparency about countries’ ambitions and priorities.

For better or worse? The global data revolution

Keijzer, Niels / Stephan Klingebiel (2017)
The Current Column, 13. January 2017

At a time when most of us are having a quiet start to the year, cleaning up desks and refreshing to-do lists, a group of UN officials, South African statisticians and international partners are frantically working to finalise preparations for the first-ever UN World Data Summit.

Taxing higher incomes: what makes the high-income earners consent to more progressive taxation in Latin America?

Berens, Sarah / Armin von Schiller (2017)
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No sustainable development goals without the G20

Berensmann, Kathrin (2016)
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Mobilizing private finance: unlocking the potential of Rwanda’s businesses to drive climate change adaptation

Dzebo, Adis / Pieter Pauw (2016)
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Do targeted reproductive health services matter? The impact of a midwife program in Indonesia

Strupat, Christoph (2017)
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Need, merit and politics in multilateral aid allocation: a district-level analysis of world bank projects in India

Nunnenkamp, Peter / Hannes Öhler / Maximiliano Sosa Andrés (2017)
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The urban planet: how cities save our future

Kraas, Frauke / Claus Leggewie / Peter Lemke / Ellen Matthies / Dirk Messner / Nebojsa Nakicenovic / Hans Joachim Schellnhuber / Sabine Schlacke / Uwe Schneidewind (2016)
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Conflicts of preferences and domestic constraints: understanding reform failure in liberal statebuilding and democracy promotion

Groß, Lisa / Sonja Grimm (2016)
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Peacebuilding and post-war transitions: assessing the impact of external-domestic interactions

Groß, Lisa (2017)
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Sustainability in the water-energy-food nexus

Anik Bhaduri / Claudia Ringler / Ines Dombrowsky / Rabi Mohtar / Waltina Scheumann (eds.) (2017)
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