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Post 2015: why the development finance debate needs to make the move from quantity to quality

Dafe, Florence / Renate Hartwig / Heiner Janus (2013)
Briefing Paper 22/2013

The implementation of a future global development agenda replacing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) after 2015 will require greater and more efficient financing. The failure to establish a sound financial foundation risks jeopardizing the success of any new development agenda.

Financial Stability in Emerging Markets - Dealing with Global Liquidity

Beijing, 21. October 2011

Background Most emerging market economies have weathered the global financial crisis reasonably well and their recoveries have been faster and more sustained than in most advanced economies. While the central banks of the major advanced economies continue their expansionary monetary policy aimed at stabilising financial sectors and…

Can guarantees effectively leverage financing for SMEs in low- and middle-income countries?

Bambe, Bao-We-Wal (2025)
Policy Brief 3/2025

2008

2008 Jump to: Archive 2008 December November October September August July June May April March February January Archive 2008 Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. December Article Weathering the American Contagion DIE-economist Ulrich Volz analyses the impact of the world-wide financial and economic crisis on China and discusses what China might add to solve the international crisis. Far Eastern Economic Review 28 December 2008 Climate…

A new multilateralism for the post-COVID world: What role for the EU-Africa partnership?

Teevan, Chloe / Luca Barana / Daniele Fattibene / Gabriela Iacobuta / Silke Weinlich / Steffen Bauer (2021)
External Publications

The Republic of Senegal at a political turning point as President Faye takes office

Grütjen, Klaus (2024)
Policy Brief 12/2024

Bassirou Diomaye Faye has been President of Senegal since 2 April 2024. With the election of this former anti-system candidate, a democratic transition of power has taken place that could usher in a fundamental renewal of the country's state and political structures.

Finanzierung der Transformation zur Nachhaltigkeit: Eine Herkulesaufgabe für die EU?

Berensmann, Kathrin (2022)
External Publications

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…

Bridging the gaps: an integrated approach to assessing aid effectiveness

Janus, Heiner / Paul Marschall / Hannes Öhler (2020)
Briefing Paper 12/2020

This briefing paper proposes an integrated approach of aid effectiveness that brings together four fragemented policy and research communities. The integrated approach can help development organisations and researchers to better organise and communicate their contributions to the 2030 Agenda.

Greening economies in partner countries: priorities for International cooperation

Altenburg, Tilman / Anna Pegels / Mauricio Böhl Gutierrez et al. (2024)
Policy Brief 2/2024

In this brief, we discuss ideas for the support of a just and green structural transformation in BMZ portfolios that are • innovative: they suggest new priorities or new types of policy support and • concrete: they can easily be incorporated into ongoing international cooperation programmes.

Earth System Governance

Toronto, 20. October 2022

The Earth System Governance Project is a longstanding global research alliance that seeks to mobilise research at the interface of global environmental change and governance, across local to global scales. The project brings together a highly interdisciplinary research community spanning disciplines such as international relations,…

NDC Explorer

Special "NDC Explorer": The NDC Explorer is an interactive tool, which made NDCs information accessible and usable online.

The Energiewende – or: how not to do it

Ruchser, Matthias (2012)
The Current Column, 03. September 2012

From summit to summit – and nothing achieved?

Wolff, Peter (2011)
The Current Column, 19. December 2011

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New publication on the new European Union's Global Role provides crucial insights for incoming EU leadership

Press Release of 18 September 2024: New publication "The European Union's Global Role in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities for the New Leadership" provides crucial insights for incoming EU leadership.

Multiple missions in the midst of war: integrating Ukraine's recovery and EU accession

Bergmann, Julian / Miriam Kosmehl / Julia Langbein / Gwendolyn Sasse (2024)
Policy Brief 11/2024

Ukraine and its international partners are faced with an unprecedented task: advancing recovery efforts and the EU accession process in the midst of an ongoing war. This policy brief discusses how best to dovetail accession negotiations and recovery efforts in a mutually reinforcing manner.

The BEPS Project: achievements and remaining challenges

Laudage Teles, Sabine (2023)
Policy Brief 22/2023

The OECD/G20’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project aims to reduce harmful tax avoidance. This policy brief evaluates the achievements and remaining challenges of the BEPS project to mobilise more domestic revenues, in particular in low- and middle-income countries.

Health financing in times of multiple crises: analysis and recommendation

Strupat, Christoph / Pooja Balasubramanian / Srinivasa Srigiri / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2023)
Policy Brief 11/2023

COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of health systems in LMICs and highlights the need for renewed health financing efforts. Governments of LMICs and development partners should consider the large positive socioeconomic effects of investments in health systems and protect spending on health.

Panel Central America Crisis

Bonn, 31. October 2019

Central America is currently witnessing a series of partly interwoven crises. Modest economic growth rates lead to low growth in income levels. Labor markets do not provide attractive job opportunities for women and men, leading to high youth unemployment rates.These challenges clearly go beyond the economic and social sphere and lead to…