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The external dimensions of the European green deal: the case for an integrated approach

Koch, Svea / Niels Keijzer (2021)
Briefing Paper 13/2021

The EU needs to define the European Green Deal through its external policies in an integrated approach, through (1) bilateral cooperation relationships, (2) promoting coherence and addressing negative spillovers and (3) the EU’s global leadership in multilateral fora.

Tackling forced displacement also means to bust myths

Schraven, Benjamin (2021)
The Current Column, 21. June 2021

This year’s World Refugee Day provides little ground for optimism as far as displacement and expulsion are concerned: the number of people displaced around the world has doubled over the past ten years. But what can we do differently in order to mitigate the root causes of displacement, as development policy is currently trying to do? First of all, we need to critically question the way in which politicians and society in Germany discuss displacement and what causes it.

Tim Stoffel

Tim Stoffel is Political Scientist and former Researcher of the Research Programme "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems".

The trade effects of the economic partnership agreements between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States: Early Empirical insights from panel data

Stender, Frederik / Axel Berger / Clara Brandi / Jakob Schwab (2021)
External Publications

Press release: New Global Tax Expenditures Database by CEP and DIE: Shedding Light on Hidden Government Spending

The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and DIE today launch the Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED). The database went live today at www.GTED.net

How to align national Covid-19 recoveries with the Sustainable Development Goals

Hege, Elisabeth / Niels Keijzer (2021)
External Publications

The value of transdisciplinary and collaborative ocean research

Wehrmann, Dorothea / Jacqueline Götze / Michał Łuszczuk / Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak / Arne Riedel (2021)
The Current Column, 17. June 2021

While we all should “roll up our sleeves for the environment”, as demanded at the World Ocean Week 2020, researchers should do this jointly rather than separately. For this, more opportunities for exchange across all geographic, societal, and disciplinary levels are needed.

Global Tax Expenditures Database

Online, 16. June 2021

The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) are officially launching their joint project: The Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED): www.GTED.net . GTED is the first database that brings together publicly available official information on tax expenditures…

Uzbekistan – a region of world society? Variants of differentiation in agricultural resources governance

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Kristof van Assche / Anastasiya Shtaltovna (2018)
External Publications

Who should the next federal government co-operate with on sustainability?

Grimm, Sven / Wulf Reiners (2021)
The Current Column, 10. June 2021

Germany is not the only country faced with managing course-setting issues concerning the future: the manner in which we do business, consume and are mobile needs to take planetary limits into account.

Need for improved governance of marine protected areas

Lehmann, Ina (2021)
The Current Column, 07. June 2021

In order to strengthen the knowledge base for ocean protection, the United Nations launched the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development on June 1. This knowledge should inter alia inform existing international frameworks for protecting the ocean.

Revisiting the politics of land recovery among white commercial farmers in Zimbabwe: implications for transitional justice

Batisai, Kezia / George T. Mudimu (2021)
External Publications

International Trade, Firms and Jobs

Online, 02. June 2021

The online seminar series "Policy Implications of Recent Globalization Research" aims to encourage the exchange and discussion of empirical research on trade and investment and its effects on developing and emerging countries. The seminar differs from a traditional academic seminar, which focuses on methodology and academic exchange, and…

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…

Rethinking Land in the Anthropocene

Online, 27. May 2021

The latest WBGU (German Advisory Council on Global Change) flagship report diagnoses a "trilemma" of global land use, consisting of diverse demands made on land for the purposes of climate-change mitigation, food security and the conservation of biological diversity. The Council proposes five governance strategies to address this…

Implications of COVID-19 for conflict in Africa

Fiedler, Charlotte / Karina Mross / Yonas Adaye Adeto (2021)
Briefing Paper 12/2021

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected armed conflict and political violence within countries? Focusing on Africa, this policy brief analyses the immediate and long-term implications of the pandemic on conflict and reflects on its implications for international peacebuilding efforts.

Employing capital: patient capital and labour relations in Kenya’s manufacturing sector

Dafe, Florence / Radha Upadhyaya / Christoph Sommer (2021)
Discussion Paper 18/2021

Creating more decent jobs is crucial for a new social contract and social cohesion. While extant research has focused on the role of states and businesses in shaping employment relations, we analyse the role of finance, in particular patient capital, for the quality and quantity of jobs in Kenya.

To save biodiversity, transform the economy

Rodríguez, Jean Carlo / Ina Lehmann (2021)
The Current Column, 17. May 2021

As countries of the Global North consider how to re-set their economies after the COVID-19 pandemic, this window of political opportunity should be used now to transform our economic system.

Hydro-social dynamics of miningscapes: obstacles to implementing water protection legislation in Mongolia

Schoderer, Mirja / Daniel Karthe / Ines Dombrowsky / Jampel Dell'Angelo (2021)
External Publications

Seven principles to guide German development policy

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Imme Scholz (2021)
The Current Column, 10. May 2021

For Germany in this election year, a number of questions arise in its external policy areas. What will the future model for German development policy look like?