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How addressing divisions on African migration inside the EU can strengthen transnational development

Schöfberger, Irene (2018)
Briefing Paper 22/2018

Intra-EU policy negotiations are essential for the evolution of EU-Africa cooperation on migration. Growing divisions inside the EU have increased the focus on external borders. This paper argues that the EU needs to address these divisions in order to support African transnational development.

Enhancing public works programmes: sustainable impact through participatory asset creation and digitalisation

Burchi, Francesco / Tekalign Gutu Sakketa (2025)
Policy Brief 4/2025

This policy brief discusses key aspects related to the design of public works programmes. In particular, it provides recommendations on how to enhance the quality of the asset constructed through the programme and how to address some of the challenges faced when introducing digital innovations.

The G20: its role and challenges

Berensmann, Kathrin / Thomas Fues / Ulrich Volz (2011)
Briefing Paper 16/2011

Build towns instead of camps: Uganda as an example of integrative refugee policy

Kreibaum, Merle (2016)
Briefing Paper 19/2016

Refugees are not short-term guests, they often stay for many years in their host countries. As a consequence, there are increasing calls to abandon the current policy of camps and build towns that enable the integration of the refugees. Uganda sets an informative example in this respect.

Working and Family Life

IDOS is pursuing a family-conscious policy for reconciling career and family.

The role of think tanks in shaping public opinion and policy-making – inputs and interventions

Bonn, 30. March 2010

The role of think tanks in shaping public opinion and policy-making – inputs and interventions.

International Academic Dialogue: Global Governance in flux – Arising perspectives through 'new drivers of change'

Bonn, 19. March 2007

How Caribbean Economies Will Benefit

Online, 10. May 2022

This ‘High-Level Regional Roundtable on Investment Facilitation for Development: How Caribbean Economies Will Benefit’ is co-organised by the International Trade Centre (ITC), the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Commission of the Organisation of…

The 2015 European Neighbourhood Policy Review: more realism, less ambition

Furness, Mark / Isabel Schäfer (2015)
The Current Column, 26. November 2015

In its latest review of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) the EU has retreated from proposing models for its neighbours, instead concentrating on cooperation in areas where there are concrete interests on both sides.

Strategies to Achieve Pro-Poor Growth: Contributions of the Education Sector

Berlin, 10. December 2009

As countries develop, so their economic activities become increasingly concentrated. But economic concentration always excludes certain population groups. Poverty rates in lagging states in Brazil, China and India are more than twice those in dynamic states. Reducing these differences will be a crucial task in the years to come; yet…

The Czech EU Presidency and the World: Chronicle of a Failure Foretold?

Horky, Ondrej (2009)

How Brexit hits EU External Action: the UK’s European legacy

Henökl, Thomas (2017)
The Current Column, 16. March 2017

As announced by Prime Minister Theresa May, the British Government is seeking a “clean break” with the EU and is prepared to leave the single market and the customs union in the process.

Global governance through voluntary sustainability standards: Developments, trends and challenges

Marx, Axel / Charline Depoorter / Santiago Fernandez de Cordoba / […] / Clara Brandi /[…] et al. (2024)
External Publications

Capital flows to developing and emerging market economies: global liquidity and uncertainty versus push factors

Belke, Ansgar / Ulrich Volz (2019)
External Publications

The heterogeneous effects of conditional cash transfers across geographical clusters: do energy factors matter?

Malerba, Daniele (2018)
External Publications

Simultaneously Realising a Just Energy Transition and the Implications for Water-Energy-Food Nexus in South Africa

Online, 11. September 2023

WWF South Africa (WWF-SA), in partnership with the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), organised this workshop as part of an international research study titled "Implementing sustainable development goals in an incoherent world: aligning climate action and reduced inequalities." The South African study has been…

Policy Brief: Advocating for a G21

Chaturvedi, Sachin / Pamla Gopaul / Stephan Klingebiel / Klaus Leisinger / Michael Makanga / Thomas Pogge / Riatu Qibthiyyah / Jeffrey Sachs / Doris Schroeder / Elizabeth Sidiropoulos / Peter Singer (2023)
External Publications

Energy democracy and the city: evaluating the practice and potential of municipal sustainability planning

Teron, Lemir / Susan Ekoh (2018)
External Publications

Water governance and policies

Pahl-Wostl, Claudia / Ines Dombrowsky / Naho Mirumachi (2021)
External Publications

The rise of the Team Europe approach in EU development cooperation: assessing a moving target

Keijzer, Niels / Aline Burni / Benedikt Erforth / Ina Friesen (2021)
Discussion Paper 22/2021

What is “Team Europe”? How does it affect the European Union’s development policy? This paper analyses the European Union’s global response to the COVID-19 pandemic and explores ist evolving motivations, priorities and current approaches to development cooperation under the “Team Europe” label.