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Financing global development: Is impact investing an investment model with potential or just blowing smoke?

Lindenberg, Nannette / Caroline Pöll (2015)
Briefing Paper 20/2015

Impact investing intends to finance projects, organisations and social enterprises to intentionally create a measurable social or environmental impact alongside a financial return. Their advocates see impact bonds as a useful instrument for financing the 2030 agenda, but many challenges remain.

Ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision in Zambia: evidence of a subnational “diversity dividend”

Gisselquist, Rachel M. / Stefan Leiderer / Miguel Niño-Zarazúa (2016)
External Publications

Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Stepping, Katharina M. K. / Nicole Rippin (2015)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Conference of the Parties (COP 21)

Paris, 30. November 2015

From 30 November to 11 December, the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place in Paris. A new global agreement on climate change is to be adopted. This agreement will be decisive for future life on our planet. Climate change…

China and Africa: the new normal

Grimm, Sven / Christine Hackenesch (2015)
The Current Column, 30. November 2015

The next summit between China and the African states is set to be held in South Africa on 4/5 December. The outcome of the meeting will reflect the new normal.

When home is elsewhere: housing policy challenges in the context of transit migration in Ghana and South Africa

Dick, Eva / Thorsten Heitkamp (2015)
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Decentralisation and regional development: experiences and lessons from four continents over three decades

Dick, Eva / Karin Gaesing / Dan Inkoom / Theo Kausel (eds.) (2016)
Books

What can the G20 contribute to international development cooperation?

Fues, Thomas / Maike Saltzmann (2015)
The Current Column, 08. December 2015

Bonn, 7 December 2015. On 1 December, China has taken over the presidency of the group of the twenty leading industrial and emerging countries (G20). In spite of its impressive economic success, the country continues to regard itself as a developing nation and its government intends to place particular emphasis on the interests of all developing countries. Following up on China’s leadership, Germany can use its chair of the G20 in 2017 to promote implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

“Climate refugees” in Europe? Climate-related migration affects developing countries in particular

Mathis, Okka Lou / Benjamin Schraven (2015)
The Current Column, 11. December 2015

The refugee crisis is this year’s central issue and one that we are likely to be dealing with for a long time to come. We are already receiving some very vocal warnings that the current refugee crisis is just a foretaste of larger and unbroken streams of “climate refugees” that could descend on Europe in future as climate change continues.

Operationalizing the product space: a road map to export sophistication

Fortunato, Piergiuseppe / Carlos Razo / Kasper Vrolijk (2015)
External Publications

Chapter scientists in the IPCC AR5: experience and lessons

Schulte-Uebbing, Lena / Gerrit Hansen / Ariel Macaspac Hernández / MartenWinter (2015)
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Challenges of globalization for international mobility, social security and environmental sustainability

Rudolph, Alexandra (2015)
Books

Breaking the shackles: the structural challenge of growth and transformation for Egypt's industrial sector

El-Haddad, Amirah (2015)
External Publications

Individualized medicine: ethical, economical and historical perspectives

Fischer, Tobias / Martin Langanke / Paul Marschall / Susanne Michl (eds.) (2015)
Books

The EU’s global strategy: challenges in North Africa and the Middle-East

Henökl, Thomas (2015)
External Publications

Navigating the trilemma: central banking in East Asia between inflation targeting, exchange-rate management and guarding financial stability

Volz, Ulrich (2015)
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On the unilateral introduction of gold-backed currencies

Volz, Ulrich / Ansgar H. Belke (2015)
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Europe must send global cooperation signals – Four proposals

Messner, Dirk (2016)
The Current Column, 11. January 2016

2015 – What a year! Ebola, Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Islamic terrorism, countless refugee movements and new record temperature highs in our planetary ecosystem. At the same time, 2015 was also the year of the Paris climate treaty, the global Sustainable Development Goals ((SDGs) agreed in New York in summer) and the agreement with Iran to limit the nuclear conflict.

Introduction to "Global cooperation research"

Messner, Dirk / Silke Weinlich (2016)
External Publications

The European Union’s global strategy: putting sustainable development at the heart of EU external action

Gavas, Mikaela / Christine Hackenesch / Svea Koch / James Mackie / Simon Maxwell (2016)
External Publications