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Chinese National Platform on Voluntary Sustainability Standards

Qingdao, 27. June 2017

Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) for an industry or product entail both opportunities and challenges for emerging economies. New national multi-stakeholder platforms on VSS in India (launched March 2016), Brazil (May/June 2017) and China reflect the increasingly proactive stance that business and government actors from these…

New industrial revolution: upgrading trade and investment frameworks for digitalization

Meléndez-Ortiz, Ricardo / Axel Berger / Wallace S. Cheng / Santiago Díaz de Sarralde Miguez / Christian von Haldenwang / Tobias Hentze / Lucia Tajoli / Akihiko Tamura / Wei Wenfang (2018)
External Publications

Contents and Structure of the IDOS Postgraduate Programme

The postgraduate programme starts on September 1st each year and runs for a period of nine months.

Global lifestyles: new pathways for development policy

Kaplan, Marcus (2012)
The Current Column, 30. January 2012

Social and environmental standards for the world economy

Bonn, 05. May 2015

This year, research cooperation within the BMZ-funded Managing Global Governance (MGG) programme for young professionals from rising powers will be further expanded: An MGG research project on social and environmental standards for the world economy gathered almost 30 alumni from all 12 previous MGG courses as well as DIE and BMZ staff…

Better Funding - Stronger multilateralism?

Bonn, 19. March 2019

Multilateral organisations such as the United Nations and multilateral development banks must play an important role in accelerating the implementation of the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development. Needed are well-functioning, effective and efficient organisations that act as guardians of the agenda, supporting governments and other…

2014 Global Go To Think Tank Ranking

2014 Global Go To Think Tank Ranking 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Ranking: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) among the leading Think Tanks worldwide Press Release of 22 January 2015 The new 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Ranking was introduced in New York, Washington D.C. and Berlin. In the category Top International Development Think Tanks the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)…

Appeal to G8

Appeal to G8 Appeal to G8: We need an “International Panel on Systemic Risks in the Global Economy” Press Release, 8 July 2009 Today, an international team of researchers under the leadership of Dirk Messner , Director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), published an appeal to the world leaders participating in the G8 summit in L'Aquila in the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau : we need an “International Panel…

Role of the BRICS in global governance

Bonn, 26. August 2013

The third “ Managing Global Governance ” (MGG) Public Lecture this year featured Amb. H. H. S. Viswanathan , who as a Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in Delhi represents India in the BRICS Think Tank Council. Before joining the Foundation in 2010, Amb. Viswanathan served in the Indian Foreign Service for 34 years:…

AU-EU cooperation on the Green Transition: What role for cooperation on international climate policy?

Online, 16. September 2020

Preparations for the AU-EU summit offer an opportunity to give AU-EU cooperation on green transitions a new impetus. On the European side , the European Commission has proposed an ambitious agenda to transform the European Union in a carbon-neutral continent by 2050 and to decouple economic growth from resource use. While the Green Deal…

Report of the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability: “Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing”

Bonn, 27. February 2012

The Executive Secretary of the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability, János Pásztor, presented the report "Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing" on 27 February 2012 in Bonn. The report was drafted by the 22-member High-level Panel on Global Sustainability which was established by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki…

International instruments for promoting corporate social responsibility (CSR)

Chahoud, Tatjana (2005)
Briefing Paper 2/2005

60 years of German development cooperation – where to go from here?

Scholz, Imme / Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul / Vera Songwe / Andrea Ordóñez / Sébastian Treyer / Ariane Hildebrandt / Anna-Katharina Horndige (2021)
External Publications

Multilateralism needs action, not celebrations

Hendra, John / Silke Weinlich (2020)
The Current Column, 21. September 2020

On the occasion of their 75th anniversary, the United Nations will today adopt a political declaration including the telling sentence “We are not here to celebrate. We are here to take action.” 3d

The Turkish-Syrian friendship dam on the Orontes River: benefits for all?

Scheumann, Waltina / Omar Shmaly (2016)
External Publications

Three topics for a repositioning of the UN’s development arm

Baumann, Max-Otto (2025)
The Current Column, 08. September 2025

The comprehensive UN80 reform initiative may primarily be a response to financial constraints, but it also offers an opportunity to reposition the UN.

Implementation of the 2030 Agenda by G20 members: how to address the transformative and integrated character of the SDGs by individual and collective action

Chen, Dongxiao / Imme Scholz / Paulo Esteves (2017)
External Publications

MGG National Alumni Conference Mexico

Mexico City, 24. July 2018

Addressing global challenges by joint knowledge production are at the core of the dialogue, research and training programme Managing Global Governance (MGG) that is implemented by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) with partners from emerging economies. With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda…

Press Releases

The press releases of the DIE address media representatives.

GPEDC: Where do we stand?

Berlin, 28. May 2017

The second High-level Meeting (HLM2) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) in Nairobi in December 2016 produced the Nairobi Outcome Document that reaffirmed commitments to the four partnership principles - ownership, focus on results, inclusiveness, transparency and accountability. It also set the GPEDC…