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EU development policy: evolving as an instrument of foreign policy and as an expression of solidarity

Furness, Mark / Luciana-Alexandra Ghica / Simon Lightfoot / Balázs Szent-Iványi (2020)
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Digital MGG Academy 2020 has started

Press release of 18 August 2020: The MGG Academy has started. The four month dialogue and training programme will, for the first time in 13 years, not take place in Bonn.

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

El-Haddad, Amirah (2020)
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Innovations for sustainability: pathways to an efficient and sufficient post-pandemic future

Nakicenovic, Nebojsa et al. (2020)
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Climate change impacts on human (im-)mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa: recent trends and options for policy responses

Schraven, Benjamin / Stephen Adaawen / Christina Rademacher-Schulz / Nadine Segadlo (2020)
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Supply shortage in medical devices in the Corona-crisis

Online, 04. September 2020

On the occasion of the launch of the G20 Trade and Investment Research Network (TIRN) , we invited to join our online discussion. TIRN is a cross-country, independent, network of trade and investment policy researchers whose shared goal is to provide substantive, research-backed analysis to support G20 leaders’ deliberations. The ongoing…

Conservationists' perspectives on poverty: an empirical study

Fisher, Janet A. / Hari Dhungana / Janine Duffy / Jun He / Mirna Inturias / Ina Lehmann / Adrian Martin / David M. Mwayafu / Iokiñe Rodríguez / Helen Schneider (2020)
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Africa’s diversification and its trade policy transformation

Ndung’u, Njuguna / Axel Berger / Clara Brandi / Uri Dadush / Fatima Olanike Kareem / Olayinka Idowu Kareem / David Luke / Simon Mevel / Rim Ben Ayed Mouelhi / Abebe Shimeles / Frederik Stender / Wilson Wasike (2020)
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Multilateralism needs action, not celebrations

Hendra, John / Silke Weinlich (2020)
The Current Column, 21. September 2020

On the occasion of their 75th anniversary, the United Nations will today adopt a political declaration including the telling sentence “We are not here to celebrate. We are here to take action.” 3d

Investing in a green recovery: the pandemic is only a prelude to a looming climate crisis

Volz, Ulrich (2020)
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Klimagerechtigkeit: Materialsammlung von Scientists for Future

Hernandez, Ariel Macaspac / Anna Schwachula / Eva Lynders / Steffen Bauer / Gregor Hagedorn (2020)
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Strengthening the EU’s Crisis Prevention and Peacebuilding Capabilities

Bergmann, Julian / Mark Furness (2020)
The Current Column, 05. October 2020

In previous crisis contexts, the EU has a role to play in support the movements. In doing so, the EU needs to ensure that it is not stuck in crisis mode.

Sub- and non-state climate action: a framework to assess progress, implementation and impact

Hale, Thomas .N. / Sander Chan / Angel Hsu / Andrew Clapper / Cynthia Elliott / Pedro Faria / Takeshi Kuramochi / Shannon McDaniel / Milimer Morgado / Mark Roelfsema / Mayra Santaella / Neelam Singh / Ian Tout / Chris Weber / Amy Weinfurter / Oscar Widerberg (2020)
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What does a more assertive European Parliament mean for EU development policy?

Burni, Aline / Niels Keijzer / Benedikt Erforth (2020)
The Current Column, 26. October 2020

While in the past there was a perception that the European Parliament merely rubber-stamped the Council’s agreements, the current legislature is more imposing and confrontational.

Training towards sustainability for the public sector during and after the pandemic

Online, 27. October 2020

Since 2018, Schools of Public Administration (SPAs) from Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Africa, the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) and further partner institutions from the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Network have joined forces to strengthen capacities to train civil servants towards sustainability.…

Protected areas in a post-COVID world

Online, 28. October 2020

The zoonotic origins of COVID 19 and countries’ reactions to the pandemic raise important questions about the future of protected areas. First, does the threat of virus spillover events after all call for a stricter separation of nature and people despite all justified criticism of fortress conservation approaches? Second, how can…

The U.S. Elections and Development Policy

Martin-Shields, Charles (2020)
The Current Column, 02. November 2020

On November 3, Americans will vote on two radically different agendas for the future for American development policy: Using aid coercively or a return to a technocratic, cooperative approach to development cooperation. The U.S. Presidential elections will shape global health, climate policy, and governance not only in the next presidency, but through the rest of the decade.

Reading on UNDS

It is increasingly clear that a fundamental adjustment of structures and capabilities of the UN development system (UNDS) is needed.

Reading on Knowledge Cooperation

For transformative research, addressing the role of think tanks in a German and international context, as well as sharing experiences of different platforms with partner institutions around the world is necessary.

It's the end of the COP as we know it: reflections by the Co-Chairs

Bauer, Steffen / Sander Chan / Lukas Hermwille / Wolfgang Obergassel (2020)
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