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Going beyond humanitarian aid in addressing refugee issues

Abedtalas, Musallam (2024)
The Current Column, 15. April 2024

The most important issue here is to improve the process of recognising refugees' property rights to the re-sources they bring with them (human, financial and social).

Agro-industry: engine for economic development in Africa

Brüntrup, Michael / Christian von Drachenfels (2009)
The Current Column, 16. November 2009

Reforming the hand that feeds you? Managing capacity development support in Cambodia and Malawi

Keijzer, Niels (2014)
Discussion Paper 20/2014

This paper analyses the policies and priorities of the governments of Cambodia and Malawi with respect to capacity development support (CDS) and investigates both the scope and available means to strengthen the effectiveness of this area of support.

South-south cooperation - opportunities and challenges for international cooperation

Chahoud, Tatjana (2007)
Briefing Paper 9/2007

Reshaping global Development: will Europe lead? An argument and a call for action

Berman, Thijs / Bengt Braun / Margret Jay / Filip Kacmarek / Louka Katseli / Simon Maxwell / Dirk Messner / Ana Palacio / Laurence Tubiana / Kevin Watkins (2014)
External Publications

Facilitating sustainable investment to build back better

Berger, Axel / Manjiao Chi / Bernard Hoekman / Makane Moïse Mbengue / Karl P. Sauvant / Matthew Stephenson (2021)
External Publications

Pursuing 1.5 degrees

Katowice, 12. December 2018

Implementing ambitious climate policies – aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees – should not be perceived as only posing challenges for countries and economies. On the contrary, ambitious climate policies can lead to new development prospects with substantial economic and social gains. The earlier action is taken, the greater…

Partnerships with the private sector: success factors and levels of engagement in development cooperation

Pérez-Pineda, Jorge A. / Dorothea Wehrmann (2020)
External Publications

Global commission calls for urgent action on climate adaptation

Bauer, Steffen / Mariya Aleksandrova (2019)
The Current Column, 11. September 2019

A report launched this week by the Global Commission on Adaptation calls for governments and business leaders to get their heads around the adaptation challenge, and quickly.

The role of framing and effort in green nudging acceptance

Grelle, Sonja / Sascha Kuhn / Hanna Fuhrmann-Riebel / Wilhelm Hofmann (2024)
External Publications

Post 2015: setting up a coherent accountability framework

Janus, Heiner / Niels Keijzer (2014)
Briefing Paper 13/2014

This briefing addresses both the conceptual and the political underpinnings of a post-2015 accountability framework. It examines how key components of post-2015 accountability can be brought together in one coherent framework.

Energy subsidies: less is more

Ruchser, Matthias (2014)
External Publications

A long-term perspective for the current energy crisis

Böhl Gutierrez, Mauricio / Daniele Malerba (2022)
The Current Column, 17. October 2022

Carbon fiscal reforms could improve coherence between the current energy crisis policies and longer-term approaches, establishing a link between short-term measures and the just transition process.

Why El-Sisi’s decision to raise Egypt’s minimum wage is not such a good one!

El-Haddad, Amirah (2019)
The Current Column, 15. April 2019

Whatever the reason, raising the minimum wage in Egypt is not a good idea. The public sector minimum wage and wage increases will increase inequality not reduce it.

Evidence-based allocation in global health: lessons learned for Germany

Minasyan, Anna (2018)
Discussion Paper 4/2018

Evidence-based allocation is getting more and more attention in the donor community. It is an innovative tool to ensure effectiveness, measurability and transparency. In this discussion paper Anna Minasyan evaluates evidence-based approaches in Global Health and outlines lessons learned for Germany.

Social Inequalities and Global Interdependencies: Latin American Configurations Inaugural Conference of desiguALdades.net

Berlin, 02. December 2010

The Conference The Conference “Social Inequalities and Global Interdependencies: Latin American Configurations” is the Inaugural Conference of the Research Network on Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America desiguALdades.net. The conference will bring together an international community of scholars to explore the potentials and…

Development Policy for a Just Globalisation

Hilbrich, Sören (2018)
The Current Column, 17. September 2018

That justice also plays a role in the global area is increasingly recognized. But what does justice demand in relation to the global political and economic system?

Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Bauer, Steffen / Karen Meijer (2015)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

What possible futures are conceivable for mobility in African metropolises?

Asimeng, Theodore (2022)
External Publications

When home is elsewhere: housing policy challenges in the context of transit migration in Ghana and South Africa

Dick, Eva / Thorsten Heitkamp (2015)
External Publications