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Supporting Ukraine’s recovery: shrewd geopolitics in times of war

Bergmann, Julian (2024)
The Current Column, 10. June 2024

Development cooperation is the key instrument for recovery and hence also plays an important geopolitical role while making a major contribution to promoting Ukrainian society’s capacity for resistance and its resilience in times of war.

And now another zero hour: reconstruction and recovery in Haiti

Leininger, Julia (2010)
The Current Column, 12. April 2010

A future agenda for research on climate change and human mobility

Oakes, Robert / Kees Van der Geest / Benjamin Schraven et al. (2023)
External Publications

The heat is on: climate policy must not simmer on the back burner

Brandi, Clara / Steffen Bauer / Mariya Aleksandrova (2025)
The Current Column, 19. February 2025

The incoming government will be well advised to reboot and even reframe the debate over Germany’s climate policy.

The heat is on: climate policy must not simmer on the back burner

Brandi, Clara / Steffen Bauer / Mariya Aleksandrova (2025)
The Current Column, 19. February 2025

The incoming government will be well advised to reboot and even reframe the debate over Germany’s climate policy.

Climate Protection as a World Citizen Movement

Climate Protection as a World Citizen Movement Climate Protection as a World Citizen Movement Copyright WBGU Press Release of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) of 17 September 2014 Climate policy is getting nowhere, while climate change continues unchecked. Yet in the midst of this crisis of humankind there is new hope. It has to do with strong movements towards sustainability that have recently been forming everywhere in civil society: social…

Do we need a global platform for SDG17?

Johannesburg, 03. February 2017

The 2030 Agenda is meant to stipulate and direct global efforts towards sustainable development. The implementation of the 2030 Agenda and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires action by a multitude of actors in various policy fields and sectors to achieve the global goals under one common “ Global Partnership for…

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

Rudloff, Bettina / Michael Brüntrup (2018)
External Publications

Research for sustainable development

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (2023)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Strategic humanitarian aid – could it weaken autocracies and boost confidence in Europe? (Strategische humanitäre Hilfe – Kann sie Autokratien schwächen und Vertrauen in Europa stärken?)

Sinanoglu, Semuhi (2025)
External Publications

Governance mechanisms for coherent and effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda: A cross-national comparison of government SDG bodies

Breuer, Anita / Julia Leininger / Daniele Malerba (2022)
External Publications

The political economy of cash transfers: a comparative analysis of Latin American and sub-Saharan African experiences

Scarlato, Margherita / Giorgio d'Agostino (2016)
Discussion Paper 6/2016

This paper analyses from a polical economy perspective the consolidated experience of cash transfers in Latin America and compares it with a variety of models of cash transfers in sub-Saharan Africa. It identifies the main political challenges for the implementation of these programmes in Africa.

Populism: consequences for global sustainable development

Marschall, Paul / Stephan Klingebiel (2019)
Briefing Paper 8/2019

Populist trends carry significant threats when it comes to dealing with cross-border challeng-es. States with strong populist outlooks can slow down global sustainable development. Conse-quently, countries less affected by such outlooks should take on key roles.

50 years

In 2014, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) celebrates its 50th anniversary. This special bundles information, historical backgrounds and opinions around five decades of DIE and represents a synopsis of the anniversary events with pictures and videos.

Holzapfel, Sarah

Senior Researcher, Research Programme "Inter- and transnational cooperation".

Climate Change and the Cost of Capital in Climate Vulnerable Developing Countries

Berlin, 30. October 2018

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and UN Environment covened a one-day workshop in Berlin to examine the technical and policy aspects of the impact of integrating climate risk into financial market decision-making on the cost of capital for climate vulnerable developing countries. The…

Germany’s new responsibility in the EU’s Africa policy post Brexit

Hackenesch, Christine / Niels Keijzer (2019)
The Current Column, 25. February 2019

The EU will need to realign its cooperation with Africa following Brexit. Germany will have multiple opportunities in the near future to proactively shape this new orientation

How are accountability and organisational learning related? A study of German bilateral development cooperation

Esser, Daniel E. / Heiner Janus (2023)
External Publications

Latecomer development in a “greening” world: introduction to the special issue

Pegels, Anna / Tilman Altenburg (2020)
External Publications

A new social contract for MENA

Bonn, 05. December 2016

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) hosted the third IPR-MENA social policy conference "A new social contract for MENA countries: Experiences from Development and Social Policies" on 5 and 6 December, in partnership with the University of Bath Institute for Policy Research . Participants…