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Bringing tax expenditures into the debate on financing for development

von Haldenwang, Christian (2025)
The Current Column, 07. July 2025

Joint standards on tax expenditure reporting can help protect countries from harmful tax competition.

Plural sustainabilities: reflections and ways ahead

Gilgan, Sandra / Dennis Avilés-Irahola / Kehinde Balogun / [...] / Michael Brüntrup / Marcelo Inacio Da Cunha et al. (2025)
External Publications

Research Colloquium on Triangular Cooperation

Online, 15. July 2025

Triangular cooperation brings together partners across the North-South divide to address development-related concerns and strengthen partnerships. Triangular schemes often consist of multilateral bodies and traditional donors supporting (bilateral) South-South cooperation endeavours and have been said to centre on three sets of roles:…

Does the World Bank Group efficiently promote private sector investment? The case of energy transition

Zattler, Jürgen K. / Adrian Schmieg (2025)
Discussion Paper 22/2025

Development finance is in crisis. As calls grow for more private investment, the question is: how? This study dives into World Bank policy-based lending, exposes key gaps, and offers solutions to unlock private capital at scale.

Gender-transformative adaptation for food security, rural livelihoods, and agriculture: the case study of Mal Pahariya women in Eastern coalfield regions of India

Banarjee, Aparajita (2025)
External Publications

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

Tamasiga, Phemelo (2025)
External Publications

New ideas for United Nations development cooperation

Bonn, 18. July 2025

With the UN80 initiative, the UN development system once again goes through a repositioning exercise. In the past, similar reform processes have tended to follow a narrow path defined by old recipes and a reluctance to confront major dysfunction. There is now a need to take a fresh look at UN development cooperation. For two reasons:…

Not all populists turn inward – and for a reason: Mexican and Turkish development cooperation in an era of global fragmentations

Baydag, R. Melis / Rebecka Villanueva Ulfgard (2025)
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The stabilization and destabilization of marine carbon observations: co-producing knowledge in murky waters

Hägele, Ramona (2025)
External Publications

Shaping sustainable supply chains

An immense share of global value creation takes place in supply chains. DIE contributes to research and policy advice on supply chains.

A diagnostic approach improves Integrated Water Resource Management

Mit vielfältigen Aktivitäten, leistet das DIE einen Beitrag zu Forschung und Politikberatung über Integriertes Wasserressourcen-Management.

Working on (knowledge) cooperation means working in cooperation

Working on (knowledge) cooperation means working in cooperation Jump to: Working on (knowledge) cooperation means working in cooperation The authors Working on (knowledge) cooperation means working in cooperation Transnational knowledge cooperation is becoming increasingly important – in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in dealing with global crises such as the current pandemic. The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für…

Cross-Cutting Research – Sustainable Futures

Instead of searching for a single path, we emphasise ‘futures’ in the plural to underline the plurality of many different sustainable futures.

Navigating the tides of conservation and conflict: The political ecology of Mangrove Ecosystem Sustainable Use and Custody Agreements in the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador

Chávez-Páez, Wendy / Jean Carlo Rodríguez-de-Francisco / Federico Koelle / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2025)
External Publications

Entwicklungspolitik: Nicht zu viel versprechen

Janus, Heiner / Tim Röthel (2025)
External Publications

Angesichts massiver Kürzungen sollten Geberländer Entwicklungszusammenarbeit nicht mit Nebenzielen überfrachten, sondern auf die Menschen vor Ort fokussieren.

Development policy: don't overpromise and underdeliver

Janus, Heiner / Tim Röthel (2025)
External Publications

In view of massive funding cuts, donor countries should not overload development cooperation with secondary objectives, but focus on improving people’s living conditions.

Foreign aid transparency amid politicization

Janus, Heiner / Tim Röthel (2025)
External Publications

Eine kohärente Migrations- und Flüchtlingsstrategie ist überfällig

Kuhnt, Jana / Mark Furness (2025)
External Publications

Migration wird in Deutschland oft verzerrt und polarisiert diskutiert – dabei ist sie dringend notwendig. Und das Leugnen dieser Realität behindert weiterhin die Entwicklung einer kohärenten nationalen Strategie.

Let’s be honest – both Sweden and Germany need the immigrants

Kuhnt, Jana / Mark Furness (2025)
External Publications

Population growth due to immigration is often portrayed as a problem rather than a success. This is deeply problematic, not least because Sweden – like Germany – depends on immigration to meet its growing labour market needs

Measuring sustainable development progress in Peru using multivariate latent Markov models

Roscioli, Federico / Daniele Malerba / Alessio Farcomeni (2025)
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