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World in Turmoil

Bonn, 22. March 2017

Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and nationalist movements in Europe: The international system is facing serious challenges. In times when international cooperation is urgently needed to address global threats such as climate change, global conflict and extreme poverty, severe scepticism against multilateral institutions and…

Collective Action in Times of Global Transformation and Domestic Crisis

Brussels, 23. March 2017

Challenges such as economic and social exclusion, state fragility and environmental degradation – in particular climate change – have become more salient on the global agenda. This is aptly illustrated by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With the SDGs, the global development agenda…

On the role of central banks in enhancing green finance

Volz, Ulrich (2017)
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G20 support for SDGs

Berensmann, Kathrin (2016)
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Trade policy in the digital age

von Weizsäcker, Franz / Axel Berger / Clara Brandi (2017)
The Current Column, 03. April 2017

Trade policy needs to become more digital, transparent and participative if it is to meet the challenges of today.

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Drought resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bonn, 06. April 2017

Drought is one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. It often has large-scale and serious consequences particularly in poor countries. It has accompanied humankind ever since, but is projected to increase with climate change. Yet, in our present time drought no longer needs to be a disaster, its consequences can be managed, though it is…

Proceeding with River Basin Management: legal, financial and political dimensions in Mongolia

Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Annabelle Houdret / Ines Dombrowsky (2017)
Briefing Paper 6/2017

This policy brief analyses the challenges that Mongolia faces in the implementation of River Basin Management and provides suggestions on how to move its legal, financial and political implementation further.

Key policy options for the G20 in 2017 to support an open and inclusive trade and investment system

Akman, M. Sait / Axel Berger / Uri Dadush / Simon Evenett / Lise Johnson / Maximiliano Mendez-Parra / Raul Ochoa / Claudia Schmucker (2017)
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Vietnam’s preferential trade agreements: implications for GVC participation and upgrading

Berger, Axel / Dominique Bruhn (2017)
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Higher education for the SDGs – particularly in the global South

Stamm, Andreas (2017)
The Current Column, 12. April 2017

We need knowledge-based strategies for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise their implementation will fail. Development cooperation actors have long considered themselves expertise brokers. North-South knowledge transfer needs to be replaced by joint, practice-based learning among researchers from many different nations.

Unlocking the irrigation potential in sub-Saharan Africa: are public-private partnerships the way forward?

Scheumann, Waltina / Annabelle Houdret / Michael Brüntrup (2017)
Briefing Paper 7/2017

Can public-private partnerships in irrigation improve food security in Africa? Our briefing paper argues that it is possible if partnerships go beyond irrigation, farmers are organized and supported, and governments secure stable conditions especially for land and water use and protect public goods.

Brexit: impact, risks and opportunities for European development policy

Henökl, Thomas (2017)
Briefing Paper 8/2017

On 29 April EU leaders meet to discuss the Brexit negotiation guidelines. What are the likely implications of the UK withdrawal on European development policy?

National Climate Policy and Sustainable Development in Urban Kenya

Nairobi, 25. April 2017

The goals and objectives of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) create profound challenges for the development and implementation of coherent policies in all countries and at all levels of governance. Kenya has…

Online Platform Presents Policy Proposals to G20

How can the G20 ensure sustained progress on climate protection? How can governments leverage the opportunities of digitalization and mitigate the risks? How can migration and asylum policy challenges be overcome? Leading think tanks from the G20 countries have been grappling with these and other key poli-cy issues facing the 20 largest industrialized and emerging economies (G20) and are now presenting their recommendations to the G20 via the G20-Insights.org internet platform.

2017

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Expectation management? Contrasting the EU’s 2030 Agenda discourse with its performance in evaluating policy coherence for development

Keijzer, Niels (2017)
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Smart industrial policy is key to today’s development agenda

Altenburg, Tilman / Lütkenhorst, Wilfried (2017)
The Current Column, 08. May 2017

Decarbonisation, disruptive new technologies, massive urbanization: Today’s major challenges call for a new breed of industrial policy –a huge challenge for developing countries in particular. A new book by DIE researchers explains why and how.

Global Solutions

, 29. May 2017

The Group of Twenty (G20) is an international forum that brings together the world’s leading industrialised and emerging economies. The group accounts for 85% of world GDP and two-thirds of its population. The first summit of the G20 took place in Berlin in 1999. In 2017, the G20 summit returned to Germany. To mark Germany’s G20…

Political parties: weak point in the sustainability architecture

Kloke-Lesch, Adolf (2017)
The Current Column, 29. May 2017

A tragedy is looming. While the German Government and federal state governments are beginning to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the political parties behind them appear conspicuously unconcerned and are lagging perceptibly behind the dynamics in business and society.