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Poverty and Shared Prosperity

Bonn, 22. June 2015

Fighting poverty is one of the most important tasks of the international development agenda and will logically take a central role in the post-2015 agenda . In the past, major progress has been achieved in poverty reduction. However, many of those who emerged from poverty in recent years remain vulnerable to shocks and slowdowns in…

The Politics of Fighting Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion

Bonn, 23. June 2015

Reports on worldwide tax avoidance, tax fraud and illicit global financial flows (IFF) have been appearing more and more frequently in recent times. In spite of the attention which such revelations attract, the international community is still far from an effective system of controls. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and…

World Bank and DIE broaden partnership

World Bank and DIE broaden partnership World Bank Group and German Development Institute broaden partnership to tackle global poverty and inequality Press Release of 22 June 2015 Ending extreme poverty is one of the most important issues on the international agenda, and is central to the Sustainable Development Goals, which will be adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015. The past few decades have seen major progress in poverty reduction;…

China-Africa cooperation: promises, practice and prospects

Grimm, Sven (2015)
External Publications

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.

Advancing an international Energiewende policy

Potsdam, 29. June 2015

Over the past two decades, Germany has emerged as a frontrunner in the development of renewable energy. Its ambitious policies to support the deployment of renewable energy not only initiated the German Energiewende , they also helped stimulate a global process of innovation and diffusion of renewable energy technologies. While these…

Who’s in charge here? Interrogating reform resistance in capacity development support

Keijzer, Niels / Piet De Lange (2015)
External Publications

The conference on development finance in Addis Ababa: leading the way on future international cooperation

Berensmann, Kathrin (2015)
External Publications

Institutional architecture and development: responses from emerging powers

Sidiropoulos, Elizabeth / Jorge A. Pérez Pineda / Sachin Chaturvedi / Thomas Fues (eds.) (2015)
Books

Introduction to "Institutional architecture and development: responses from emerging powers"

Sidiropoulos, Elizabeth / Sachin Chaturvedi / Thomas Fues / Jorge A. Pérez Pineda (2015)
External Publications

Converging practices and institutional diversity: how southern providers and traditional donors are transforming the international system of development cooperation

Fues, Thomas (2015)
External Publications

The global partnership for effective development cooperation: origins, actions and future prospects

Abdel-Malek, Talaat (2015)
Studies 88

This study by one of the most influential policy-makers in development traces the evolution of the international aid system during the post-World War II period and analyses the potential of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation to become a universally accepted platform.

Addis Ababa: Trying to square the circle, or – how to share responsibilities in an unequal world

Bracho, Gerardo / Christine Hackenesch / Silke Weinlich (2015)
The Current Column, 21. July 2015

20 July 2015. The UN Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa ended with a last-minute agreement. The Addis Conference was expected to lay the groundwork for the upcoming major events later in the year on the new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and on a universal climate agreement.

No major step forward on development finance without strong countries taking the lead

Wolff, Peter (2015)
The Current Column, 24. July 2015

The Addis Ababa Action Agenda is now a reality, having been adopted by the UN Conference on Financing for Development, which concluded in the Ethiopian capital on 16 July.

Implementing Integrated Water Resource Management

Bonn, 18. August 2015

International Conference Sustainable Development Goals: A Water Perspective - Indicators, Interlinkages and Implementation (17 - 18 August 2015) Panel: Implementing Integrated Water Resource Management In contrast to Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7 which focused on improved water supply and sanitation, the proposed Sustainable…

Towards a global partnership for development: the United Nations and Mexico’s South-South cooperation

García, Paola / Sebastian Haug / Nils-Sjard Schulz (2015)
External Publications

Orchestration: an instrument for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

Klingebiel, Stephan / Sebastian Paulo (2015)
Briefing Paper 14/2015

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a test for global cooperation. As part of the implementation of the SDGs, governments and international organisations should use "orchestration" to foster innovative approaches to cooperation.

The G20 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): reflections on future roles and tasks

Kloke-Lesch, Adolf (2015)
External Publications

Capitalising on multilateral momentum – the United Nations and the 2030 Agenda

Baumann, Max-Otto / Silke Weinlich (2015)
The Current Column, 07. September 2015

The heads of state and government are set to approve the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in New York at the end of September, thereby identifying the key areas of development policy action for the next 15 years.

The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation

Bonn, 09. September 2015

The public event was co-hosted by DIE and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, served as both, the 13th Käte Hamburger Lecture and a book was launched for the recently published DIE Studies No. 88, “The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation: Origins, actions and future prospects”, by the…