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How the international financial institutions are responding to the pandemic

Berensmann, Kathrin (2020)
The Current Column, 30. April 2020

Around half of low-income countries were already heavily in debt before the crisis. And more poor nations will become highly indebted as a result of the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis and poor people's struggle for survival: How should governments in low-income countries respon and what resources are needed?

Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu / Lukas Kornher (2020)
External Publications

Assuring equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments

Stamm, Andreas / Jeffrey Orozco (2020)
The Current Column, 04. May 2020

The Costa Rican government has proposed to the WHO that it should lead a global effort to pool intellectual rights on technologies that are useful against Covid-19.

Universal basic income: social transfers stabilise aggregate demand

Loewe, Markus (2020)
External Publications

Holzapfel, Sarah

Senior Researcher, Research Programme "Inter- and transnational cooperation".

The social contract as a tool of analysis: introduction to the special issue on “Framing the evolution of new social contracts in Middle Eastern and North African countries”

Loewe, Markus / Tina Zintl / Annabelle Houdret (2021)
External Publications

Environmental Governance

The research programme "Environmental Governance" examines the extent of strategies for requirements of the Paris Climate Agreement and the 2030 Agenda.

The ocean as a lifeline for the future of the planet

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (2020)
The Current Column, 08. June 2020

The 11th UN World Oceans Day on 8 June serves as a reminder that sustainable management of the ocean and its resources is one of the biggest challenges facing us globally.

Accounting for intergenerational social immobility in low- and middle-income countries

Könings, Fabian / Jakob Schwab (2020)
External Publications

Carmen Richerzhagen

Former Researcher, Research Programme "Environmental Governance and Transformation to Sustainability".

What does the EU recovery plan mean for the European Green Deal?

Sturm, Janina (2020)
The Current Column, 17. June 2020

The “Next Generation EU” recovery plan aims to mobilise 750 billion euros to help the EU emerge from the recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Negotiation on the project are starting this Friday at the meeting of the European Council.

Refugees and displacement

Special "Refugees and displacement": Never in the history of mankind were so many people forced to leave their homesteads. The root causes of flight and displacement often are complex: These comprise of violent conflicts, weak statehood, economic crises or natural disasters and environmental change. Which contribution can development policy make to forestall displacement? How can the negative consequences of displacement be mitigated? Come back to this page regularly to see our latest publications and events.

Growing inequality can worsen the pandemic’s effects

Negre, Mario / Daniel Gerszon Mahler / Christoph Lakner (2020)
The Current Column, 22. June 2020

The impacts that Covid-19 has brought about in our daily lives are very apparent. Less apparent is the immediate implications of the pandemic for global poverty.

Nicole Rippin

Nicole Rippin is Former Researcher of the Research Programme "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems".

Picking winners: identifying leading sectors for Egypt and Tunisia using the product space methodology

El-Haddad, Amirah (2020)
External Publications

The informalization of the Egyptian economy (1998–2012): a driver of growing wage inequality

El-Haddad, Amirah / May Mokhtar Gadallah (2021)
External Publications

Subjective returns to education: rational expectations of disadvantaged groups in India

Balasubramanian, Pooja (2020)
External Publications

Taming the big green elephant. Setting the motion for transformation towards sustainability

Hernandez, Ariel Macaspac (2020)
Books

Earmarked funding for multilateral development cooperation: asset and impediment

Baumann, Max-Otto / Erik Lundsgaarde / Silke Weinlich (2020)
Briefing Paper 16/2020

The United Nations development system and other multilateral organizations have increasingly been funded through earmarked contributions. This has implications for their ability to effectively and independently perform the functions member states’ expect of them.

Low‐carbon transition risks for finance

Semieniuk, Gregor / Emanuele Campiglio / Jean-Francois Mercure / Ulrich Volz / Neil R. Edwards (2020)
External Publications