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Post 2015: getting down to the nitty-gritty: measuring the state of the environment

Stepping, Katharina M.K. (2014)
Briefing Paper 5/2014

Environmental indicators provide crucial information about the state of the environment. Yet, the availability and quality of data remain poor in a large number of countries. Integrating environmental goals and targets in the post-2015 agenda requires efforts for data gathering and processing.

The development project as an institution for agency and capability expansion: the case of the Njombe milk project

Burchi, Francesco / Pasquale De Muro / Sara Vicari (2015)
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The development project as an institution for agency and capability expansion: the case of the Njombe milk project

Burchi, Francesco / Pasquale De Muro / Sara Vicari (2015)
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Results-based Funding

Paris, 19. May 2014

Today development partners are under strong pressure to demonstrate the results achieved through development co-operation. Results-based funding is one major attempt to respond to this pressure by reshaping the delivery instruments and relationships between development partners. Results-based funding (such as results based aid, program…

The river basin as a new scale for water governance in transition countries? A comparative study of Mongolia and Ukraine

Dombrowsky, Ines / Nina Hagemann / Annabelle Houdret (2014)
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Launch of SDSN Germany

Launch of SDSN Germany Jump to: Leading knowledge institutions announce Leadership Council for new German sustainability initiative Leading knowledge institutions announce Leadership Council for new German sustainability initiative Press Release, 9 May 2014 Ten German knowledge institutions have just appointed an initial group of high-ranking Leadership Council members for the newly established Sustainable Development Solutions Network Germany ( SDSN Germany ). It…

Sustainable Energy for Food

Bonn, 12. June 2014

According to conservative estimates, producing food and getting it to the table accounts for around 30 per cent of energy consumed worldwide. With the demand for food on the increase and energy resources in limited supply, experts in science, business, civil society and development cooperation who work in the energy and/or food sector all…

What can be expected from international frameworks to regulate large-scale land and water acquisitions in sub-Sahara Africa?

Brüntrup, Michael / Waltina Scheumann / Axel Berger / Lidija Christmann / Clara Brandi (2014)
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Die globale Flüchtlingskrise erfordert mehr als nur humanitäre Hilfe

Schraven, Benjamin / Niels Keijzer (2014)
The Current Column, 23. June 2014

Die vom UNHCR am Weltflüchtlingstag veröffentlichten Zahlen stellen einen traurigen neuen Rekord dar. Wie kann die internationale Gemeinschaft darauf reagieren?

Water and electricity – weapons in the Syrian conflict

Scheumann, Waltina (2014)
The Current Column, 30. June 2014

It cannot ruled out that Turkey is indeed playing the water card. It did this in the 80s, in the hope that Syria would curtail the activities of the Kurdish PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party).

Transcultural understandings of legitimacy

Bonn, 01. July 2014

Why are institutions of global governance accused of lacking legitimacy? Is global governance a Western concept? Which role does transcultural dialogue play for creating common values and finding common solutions of global problems? A panel of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), organised…

Knowledge for development: a literature review and an evolving research agenda

Akude, John Emeka (2014)
Discussion Paper 18/2014

The paper reviews prevalent literature and major ideas in the relatively new field of knowledge management for development and concludes that the macro dimension of the subject matter has not been adequately treated. It then complements this lack by developing a more balanced research programme.

Children’s multidimensional health and medium-run cognitive skills in low- and middle-income countries

Burchi, Francesco (2014)
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Climate protection in agriculture: a risk for smallholders?

Kaplan, Marcus / Anika Schroeder / Eike Zaumseil (2014)
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Millennium Plus or Sustainable Development Goals: how to combine human development objectives with targets for Global Public Goods?

Loewe, Markus (2014)
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Beyond aid: new ways forward?

Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel / Sebastian Paulo (2014)
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A strong norm for democratic governance in Africa

Leininger, Julia (2014)
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Uganda: electricity or tourism?

Never, Babette (2014)
The Current Column, 08. July 2014

In Uganda, the decision on the size of a planned hydropower plant would breach a 2007 agreement to conserve this stretch of the river.

TTIP: What are the implications for developing countries and rising powers?

Bonn, 17. July 2014

The planned Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has triggered controversial debates both domestically and abroad. Very few of these discussions move beyond the immediate EU-USA context, although what is expected to be the world’s biggest free trade agreement will have significant impact on global trade as a whole. Many…

Environmental degradation, climate change, migration and youth

Schraven, Benjamin (2014)
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