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Press release: New Global Tax Expenditures Database by CEP and DIE: Shedding Light on Hidden Government Spending

The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and DIE today launch the Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED). The database went live today at www.GTED.net

How to align national Covid-19 recoveries with the Sustainable Development Goals

Hege, Elisabeth / Niels Keijzer (2021)
External Publications

Shaping sustainable supply chains

An immense share of global value creation takes place in supply chains. DIE contributes to research and policy advice on supply chains.

Reforming the United Nations Development System

The UNDS has been undergoing an ambitious reform process. Member states and UN organisations need to step up their support for reforms to succeed.

Global Tax Expenditures Database

Online, 16. June 2021

The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) are officially launching their joint project: The Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED): www.GTED.net . GTED is the first database that brings together publicly available official information on tax expenditures…

Municipalities are Shaping the Future

Dick, Eva / Paul Marschall / Christopher Wingens (2021)
The Current Column, 14. June 2021

Some local authorities are engaged in long-standing partnerships in which the administrations of both parties engage in dialogue on sustainable public services. This results in both parties learning lessons.

Shifting to the digital: a case study of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) academy as a digital learning format

Fiselier, Evelien (2021)
External Publications

Who should the next federal government co-operate with on sustainability?

Grimm, Sven / Wulf Reiners (2021)
The Current Column, 10. June 2021

Germany is not the only country faced with managing course-setting issues concerning the future: the manner in which we do business, consume and are mobile needs to take planetary limits into account.

Revisiting the politics of land recovery among white commercial farmers in Zimbabwe: implications for transitional justice

Batisai, Kezia / George T. Mudimu (2021)
External Publications

International Trade, Firms and Jobs

Online, 02. June 2021

The online seminar series "Policy Implications of Recent Globalization Research" aims to encourage the exchange and discussion of empirical research on trade and investment and its effects on developing and emerging countries. The seminar differs from a traditional academic seminar, which focuses on methodology and academic exchange, and…

Latecomer development in the global green economy

Online, 01. June 2021

In recent years, the paradigm change toward a global green economy has been gaining speed. More than 110 countries, many of them in the low and middle income groups, have pledged to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 or earlier. More importantly, major players have substantiated their plans by finance and pathways to implementation. These…

Rethinking Land in the Anthropocene

Online, 27. May 2021

The latest WBGU (German Advisory Council on Global Change) flagship report diagnoses a "trilemma" of global land use, consisting of diverse demands made on land for the purposes of climate-change mitigation, food security and the conservation of biological diversity. The Council proposes five governance strategies to address this…

Implications of COVID-19 for conflict in Africa

Fiedler, Charlotte / Karina Mross / Yonas Adaye Adeto (2021)
Briefing Paper 12/2021

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected armed conflict and political violence within countries? Focusing on Africa, this policy brief analyses the immediate and long-term implications of the pandemic on conflict and reflects on its implications for international peacebuilding efforts.

UNESCO Chair in Human-Water Systems

Online, 18. May 2021

A key challenge for sustainable water management and thus sustainable development as a whole is the complexity of human-water-systems. Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches and the targeted processing of research results are central for a better understanding and sustainable implementation of knowledge. This is where the new UNESCO…

To save biodiversity, transform the economy

Rodríguez, Jean Carlo / Ina Lehmann (2021)
The Current Column, 17. May 2021

As countries of the Global North consider how to re-set their economies after the COVID-19 pandemic, this window of political opportunity should be used now to transform our economic system.

Finanz.Macht.Zukunft

Online, 17. May 2021

Der Beirätedialog 2021 wird am 17. Mai 2021 online stattfinden. Bei der Überwindung der Corona-Krise und der Gestaltung einer nachhaltigen Zukunft gewinnt das Thema Finanzen über alle Politikfelder hinweg zunehmend an Bedeutung. Die Bundesregierung stellt in ihrer Dialogfassung der Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie 2021 Finanzen als einen von fünf…

Potentials and Challenges of a Future AU-EU Trade Agreement

Online, 12. May 2021

Africa’s role in the world trading system is currently receiving increased attention. In 2018, the members of the African Union (AU) adopted the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement to create the world’s largest free trade area in terms of participating countries. On 1 January 2021, Africa began trading under the AfCFTA,…

Seven principles to guide German development policy

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Imme Scholz (2021)
The Current Column, 10. May 2021

For Germany in this election year, a number of questions arise in its external policy areas. What will the future model for German development policy look like?

Benefits and challenges of a WTO Investment Facilitation Framework for Development for Latin American economies

Online, 05. May 2021

Investment facilitation can be understood as a set of measures concerned, among other things, with improving the transparency and predictability of investment frameworks, streamlining procedures related to foreign investors and enhancing coordination and cooperation among different stakeholders, to attract foreign direct investment (FDI)…

Filling and Operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam – A Way Out

Online, 04. May 2021

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has a concrete volume of 10.5 million m3, making it the largest dam —per volume— in Africa. The dam supposed to be a hydropower dam necessary for the Ethiopian economy. The filling and operation of this gigantic dam, which has a 74-billion-cubic-meter reservoir that can theoretically store as…