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Prevention of Corruption

Prevention of Corruption Our goals in applying the Public Corporate Governance Code By applying the Public Corporate Governance Code of the Federal Government and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, IDOS is pursuing the goal of continuing to ensure the balanced interaction of the four important bodies - the shareholders, management, Board of Trustees and the International Scientific Advisory Board newly constituted in February 2023 - within the framework of the…

Why it is worth to support and protect democracy worldwide

Special “Democracy Support and Protection”: Findings from democratization research and advice, what constitutes democracy and why it's worth promoting democratization.

Integrating nature into debt sustainability analysis

Kraemer, Moritz / Ulrich Volz (2022)
External Publications

Regional expertise on MENA

Regional expertise on MENA: This page bundles thematically related work at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) on the region Middle East and North Africa .You can find information on relevant publications, events, projects as well as contact details of our researchers with specific regional expertise.

Regional expertise on Latin America

Regional expertise on Latin America: This page brings together thematic work of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) for the Latin American region. You can find information on relevant publications, events, projects and contacts to the Institute’s researchers with specific regional expertise.

East Asia

Regional expertise on East Asia: This page brings together thematic work of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) for the East Asian region. You can find information on relevant publications, events, projects as well as contact information to the Institute’s researchers with specific regional expertise.

Social Contracts in the MENA – Drivers of Change

Bonn, 24. August 2022

Aspirations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to improve state-society relations predate the Arab uprisings in 2010-11 (e.g. Algeria 1991-2002, Iran 1998). However, developments after 2011 fell well short of meeting these aspirations in most MENA countries. Considerable bodies of literature now use the social contract ‘lens’ for…

Have we failed to capitalise on the momentum for the SDGs?

Kranholdt, Dominic (2022)
The Current Column, 29. August 2022

The Sustainable Development Report 2022 shows that the international community has seen a reversal in progress on SDG achievement for the second successive year

Sustainable Urban Development

Special "Sustainable Urban Development": More than half of the World’s population already lives in urban areas; in 2050 it will be two third. Most of the growth will happen in emerging and developing countries, where the number of city-dwellers who live informally is still increasing.

Urbanization, the Climate Crisis, and the Role of the G7

Roll, Michael (2022)
The Current Column, 12. September 2022

Considering the large number of international initiatives that already deal with urbanization and the climate crisis, what contribution to global sustainable urban development could the G7 make?

Impact-oriented accompanying research

Special "Impact-oriented accompanying research": As a partner of many implementing agencies, DIE conducts rigorous impact assessments covering topics such as governance, social protection, taxation, digitalization and agriculture.

Social protection: An effective shield against global crises

Burchi, Francesco / Markus Loewe (2022)
The Current Column, 04. October 2022

The recent crises have affected people’s life not only in financial terms but also unveiled the limited capacities of social systems.

Economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the informal economy: who has fallen into poverty?

Strupat, Christoph (2022)
External Publications

Rebuilding Ukraine: how the EU should support Ukraine’s reconstruction and recovery

Bergmann, Julian / Iulian Romanyshyn (2022)
Policy Brief 6/2022

Russia’s war against Ukraine has disastrous consequences for the country. A huge international effort will be required to support Ukraine’s reconstruction. This policy brief analyses priorities and proposed plans on rebuilding the country, and provides recommendations on next steps in the process.

Agroecology and rural development: acting in the Global North - for and with the Global South

Steglich, Mirjam / Thomas Beutler / Saymore Ngonidzashe Kativu et al. (2022)
External Publications

Does economic growth reduce multidimensional poverty? Evidence from low- and middle-income countries

Balasubramanian, Pooja / Francesco Burchi / Daniele Malerba (2023)
External Publications

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,…

State of the science of “political futures”

Bonn, Germany, 24. October 2022

Rationale : Enhancing the use of social science expertise is fundamental to the development of scenarios of climate and societal futures that are responsive to a wider range of challenges towards strong climate action and sustainability. In particular, there is an agreement that socio-political factors must inform scenarios and be…

The EU-CEAP impacts on developing countries – recommendations for development policy

To, Jenny (2022)
Policy Brief 10/2022

The policy brief examines major sectors addressed in the EU-CEAP: the plastic packaging, electric vehicles and batteries sectors. Within these, recommendations are made to expand present approaches of development policy that go beyond waste management and recycling.

Scaling up sustainable finance and investment in the Global South

Volz, Ulrich / Dirk Schoenmaker (2022)
External Publications