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From politics to business: how a state-led fund is investing in Africa? The case of the China-Africa

Li, Hang (2020)
External Publications

Chinese workers and their “Linguistic Labour”: Philippine online gambling and Zambian onsite casinos

Camba Alvin / Hangwei Li (2021)
External Publications

Productive efficiency, technological change and catch up within Africa

Mensah, Emmanuel Buadi / Solomon Owusu / Neil Foster-McGregor (2020)
External Publications

Governance of the water-energy-food nexus for an integrated implementation of the 2030 Agenda

Srigiri, Srinivasa Reddy / Ines Dombrowsky (2021)
Discussion Paper 2/2021

Understanding the conditions for coordination in the WEFNexus is key to achieving the 2030Agenda. We provide a framework for analysing nexus governance from a polycentricity perspective, which can be useful in formulating coherent strategies for the integrated implementation of the SDGs.

Can integrated social protection programmes affect social cohesion? Mixed-methods evidence from Malawi

Burchi, Francesco / Federico Roscioli (2021)
Discussion Paper 3/2021

Using a mixed-method approach we show the impacts of an integrated social protection programme on social cohesion in Malawi. We find no concrete effect of the lump-sum transfer; in contrast, the business training enhances social cohesion especially when accompanied by participation in saving groups.

Approaches for supporting smallholders in the Global South: contentious issues, experiences, syntheses

Rauch, Theo / Michael Brüntrup (2021)
Briefing Paper 1/2021

The support of smallholder farmers is indispensable for reaching many SDGs in the Global South. HOW to achieve that is subject to decade-old debates. The text sketches major positions, reflects them in light of smallholder realities, and tries a synthesis.

Why female leaders stand out on their political communication during the pandemic

Burni, Aline / Frauke Domgörgen (2021)
The Current Column, 10. March 2021

During the COVID-19 pandemic, female leaders have been portrayed by the media as more competent and efficient in dealing with the outbreak. What could explain that female leaders have conducted a successful mitigation of the pandemic?

Unmasking the middle class in the Philippines: aspirations, lifestyles, and prospects for sustainable consumption

Never, Babette / Albert, Jose Ramon G. (2021)
External Publications

Hydro-social dynamics of miningscapes: obstacles to implementing water protection legislation in Mongolia

Schoderer, Mirja / Daniel Karthe / Ines Dombrowsky / Jampel Dell'Angelo (2021)
External Publications

EU-Turkey relations - Theories, institutions, and policies

Reiners, Wulf / Ebru Turhan (eds.) (2021)
Books

Why green industrial policy should be a priority area of development cooperation

Altenburg, Tilman (2021)
The Current Column, 01. July 2021

The European Union has put down a marker with its Green Deal, recognising in the need to ecologically restructure the world’s economies an opportunity to modernise the European economy and make it more competitive.

Identifying pathways to peace: how international support can help prevent conflict recurrence

Mross, Karina / Charlotte Fiedler / Jörn Grävingholt (2022)
External Publications

Aligning recycling behaviors and the recycling system: towards a full cycle of materials and behavioral methods

Pegels, Anna / Jorge Luis Castañeda / Carolina Humphreys / Caroline Kötter / Mario Negre / Christian Weidner / Florian Kutzner (2022)
External Publications

Beyond rich and poor: identifying global development constellations

Hackenesch, Christine / Svea Koch / Sebastian Ziaja (2022)
External Publications

Analysing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus from a polycentric governance perspective: Conceptual and methodological framework

Srigiri, Srinivasa Reddy / Ines Dombrowsky (2022)
External Publications

Contested water- and miningscapes: explaining the high intensity of water and mining conflicts in a meta-study

Schoderer, Mirja / Marlen Ott (2022)
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Can integrated social protection programmes affect social cohesion? Mixed-methods evidence from Malawi

Burchi, Francescco / Federico Roscioli (2022)
External Publications

Just transitions: a review of how to decarbonise energy systems while addressing poverty and inequality reduction

Malerba, Daniele (2022)
Discussion Paper 6/2022

Energy transitions and policies that incentivize it (such as carbon pricing and subsidy reforms) can increase poverty and inequality through higher prices and job disruptions. Using social protection mechanism can reverse these negative effects and make climate mitigation more politically feasible.

Climate clubs: alternative approaches in theory and practice

Online, 20. June 2022

The objective of the webinar is to discuss the climate club idea proposed by the German government in the G7 context while also harvesting lessons learnt and collecting ideas on different possible club designs from complementary angles. What different kinds of clubs possible, and what options or combinations are desirable or feasible?…

Social protection and social cohesion are key for climate action

Malerba, Daniele (2022)
External Publications

The current energy crisis stemming from the war in Ukraine has shown that long-term climate mitigation needs to be coupled with the reduction of poverty and inequality; it is obvious that climate change is a global problem, and one that needs to be addressed in combination with social justice. In a recent article in an EJDR special issue, we make the case that the relationship and effects of social protection and social cohesion are critical in this sense.