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Measuring green growth: why standardisation is (sometimes) not desirable

Stepping, Katharina M. K. / Jana Stoever (2014)
Briefing Paper 17/2014

Can supply chain initiatives reduce deforestation? A comparative analysis of cases from Brazil and Indonesia

Meijer, Karen (2014)
Discussion Paper 36/2014

Mind the (energy efficiency) gap!

Figueroa, Aurelia (2014)
The Current Column, 15. December 2014

Behavioural barriers to energy efficiency uptake have been demonstrated to impede uptake in OECD Member countries. New research points to the relevance of this topic in a global setting.

Zur Messung grünen Wachstums: Warum Vereinheitlichen (manchmal) gar nicht erwünscht ist

Stepping, Katharina M. K. / Jana Stoever (2014)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 15/2014

Die Messung grünen Wachstums mittels geeigneter Indikatoren steht vor der Herausforderung, den heterogenen Ausgangsbedingungen in Entwicklungs-, Schwellen- und Industrieländern gerecht zu werden und dennoch grüne Wachstumsstrategien länderübergreifend und vergleichend bewerten zu können.

A cartography of the new middle classes in developing and emerging countries

Brandi, Clara / Max Büge (2014)
Discussion Paper 35/2014

The rise of emerging middle classes around the world has profound implications for global development. The paper presents a novel middle class typology that illustrates the existence of different types of middle classes and points to fruitful avenues for future research and policy debates.

Methodological considerations for survey research on children, adolescents and youth in the context of environmental change and migration

Cortina, Jeronimo / Benjamin Schraven (2014)
Books

What if TTIP fails?

Berger, Axel (2014)
The Current Column, 01. December 2014

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which the United States and the European Union (EU) have been negotiating since last summer, is currently the subject of heated debate.So, it is time for us to start to consider what impact its failure would have.

Why we wouldn’t have a climate problem, if we sent our children to the climate change conference

Nannette Lindenberg (2014)
The Current Column, 26. November 2014

For many of us, the wait for Christmas begins on the first Sunday of advent - from Monday the international climate protection community will be looking full of hope to Lima where 195 countries will be meeting for the 20th time for the UN Climate Summit.

Supporting Democracy Abroad: An International Study of Democracy Assistance

Berlin, 20. November 2014

Over the last two years, Freedom House has examined the international democracy assistance provided by ten of the world’s leading democracies and, in addition, the European Union. Individual countries studied included Brazil, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States. This selection…

The new EU Development Commissioner: from Cutting Ribbons to Influencing Global Development?

Koch, Svea / Niels Keijzer / Christine Hackenesch (2014)
The Current Column, 04. November 2014

This week, the new EU Development Commissioner takes office. Immediate crises response and three major global events ask for an ambitious and risk-taking Development Commissioner.

The international battle against tax fraud and evasion: a key part of the post-2015 agenda

von Haldenwang, Christian / Uwe Kerkow (2014)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Evolving river basin management in Mongolia?

Houdret, Annabelle / Ines Dombrowsky / Lena Horlemann (2014)
External Publications

Kick-starting industrial transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Altenburg, Tilman / Elvis Melia (2014)
External Publications

A new partnership between China and Germany in support of international development

Klingebiel, Stephan / Li Xiaoyun (2014)
The Current Column, 09. October 2014

The planned bilateral governmental consultations between China and Germany on 10 October will provide Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Gerd Müller, with an important opportunity to start a new phase of engagement. We argue that this event can be used to design a new development partnership.

What German development co-operation can learn from the incest debate

Böckenförde, Markus (2014)
The Current Column, 08. October 2014

On 24 September 2014 the German Ethics Council recommended that consensual sexual relations between adult siblings should no longer be illegal, thus decriminalising a taboo that has endured for millennia. A heated debate followed. German development co-operation can learn from this incest debate.

Are we facing a multilateral donor dilemma?

Reisen, Helmut (2014)
The Current Column, 06. October 2014

Following a decade and a half of convergence and poverty reduction in developing and emerging economies, proclamations abound that ‘We Can End Poverty’. At the same time, it is forecast that fewer countries will be eligible to receive grants or soft loans from the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) and other multilateral finance institutions. Will the end of poverty result in a donor dilemma?

Economic Partnership Agreements: Time is running out

Brandi, Clara / Dominique Bruhn (2014)
The Current Column, 29. September 2014

1 October 2014 is the deadline for the conclusion of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union (EU) and a group of states in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP states). If the agreements are not signed by that date, African countries will fear a deterioration in their conditions for exporting to the EU.

Ebola: more than a health challenge!

Julia Leininger (2014)
The Current Column, 24. September 2014

The Ebola crisis in West Africa has assumed catastrophic proportions. The international community of states has reacted too slowly to the Ebola outbreak, which has been known about since March 2013. This also applies to Germany.

Providing international adaptation finance for vulnerable communities: a study on potentials and limits of social investment funds

Horstmann, Britta / Günther Schulz-Heiss (2014)
Studies 83

The provision of international climate finance for local adaptation needs is a key element and declared political goal of the United Nationals Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and national governments in addressing the adverse effects of climate change.

Climate Protection as a World Citizen Movement

Climate Protection as a World Citizen Movement Climate Protection as a World Citizen Movement Copyright WBGU Press Release of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) of 17 September 2014 Climate policy is getting nowhere, while climate change continues unchecked. Yet in the midst of this crisis of humankind there is new hope. It has to do with strong movements towards sustainability that have recently been forming everywhere in civil society: social…