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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.

What prospects for a joint Africa-EU effort towards formulating a Post-2015 framework for global development?

Messner, Dirk / Niels Keijzer / Svea Koch / Julia Leininger (2014)
External Publications

Last chance for a fundamental reform of German development policy?

Janus, Heiner / Armin von Schiller (2025)
The Current Column, 28. April 2025

A long-term viable development cooperation therefore requires a change in the BMZ towards greater tolerance of mistakes, a willingness to learn and a long-term focus.

After the Toronto summit: the G20's development policy agenda

Wolff, Peter (2010)
The Current Column, 29. June 2010

An Agenda for Europe in the world

Brussels, 31. October 2019

We were pleased to present to you the European Think Tanks Group’s ‘Agenda for Europe in the World’. The agenda outlines what we think the new EU leadership should focus on when it comes to foreign and development policy. It spells out concrete proposals for action in key areas where the EU can make a difference – ranging from peace and…

Common goals and differential commitments: the role of emerging economies in global development

Besharati, Neissan Alessandro (2013)
Discussion Paper 26/2013

How do middle-income countries fit in the post-Busan and post-2015 global development architecture?

Why so nervous?

Fischer, Doris (2011)
The Current Column, 09. May 2011

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.

Maximising goal coherence in sustainable and climate-resilient development? Polycentricity and coordination in governance

Chan, Sander / Gabriela Iacobuta / Ramona Hägele (2020)
External Publications

New dynamics in South-South cooperation

Fues, Thomas (2013)

Is the earth still governable? ... and what that implies for development policy

Messner, Dirk (2010)
The Current Column, 11. January 2010

A future agenda for research on climate change and human mobility

Oakes, Robert / Kees Van der Geest / Benjamin Schraven et al. (2023)
External Publications

Two Pager

Two Pager Jump to: Publikationssuche The Two-Pager is an instrument for transformative research. It depicts the essence of a previous publication by outlining the issue, the research goals and the results. Since it also concludes the respective recommendations for development cooperation (or other policy areas), the Two-Pager is also an instrument of policy advice and political communication that addresses specific communities in international cooperation. All issues…

Workforce transition in South Africa’s just energy transition: an analysis of needs, policy gaps and socioeconomic implications

Tamasiga, Phemelo (2025)
External Publications

EU development policy in times of polycrisis

Olivié, Iliana / Maria Santillán O’Shea / Daniele Fattibene / Geert Laporte / Niels Keijzer (2023)
External Publications

Voluntary standards and the SDGs: mapping public-private complementarities for sustainable development

Schleifer, Philip / Clara Brandi / Rupal Verma / Katharina Bissinger / Matteo Fiorini (2022)
External Publications

United Nations Post-2015 Agenda for global development: perspectives from China and Europe

Fues, Thomas / Jiang Ye (eds.) (2014)
Studies 84

The book reflects current thinking among scholars in China and Germany on the post-2015 global development agenda. The contributions from the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and the German Development Institute reflect differences, but also surprising convergence of perspectives.

Fit for the purpose? Juxtaposing global development discussions on knowledge sharing with African realities

Akude, John Emeka / Niels Keijzer (2014)
External Publications

Institutional change through development assistance: the comparative advantages of political and adaptive approaches

Roll, Michael (2021)
Discussion Paper 28/2021

Development assistance often fails to achieve institutional change. New political and adaptive approaches to development assistance show more promise. The discussion paper shows for which problems, in which contexts and which outcomes this may be the case.

Green and social: managing synergies and trade-offs

Bonn, 12. March 2014

Existing development pathways need to be transformed so that they are more environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive. These two agendas can be synergistic or conflicting. Synergies have been explored to some extent in recent concepts such as the ‘green economy’, while the associated trade-offs and conflicts have received less…