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Redrawing soil salinity innovation-focused stakeholder interaction for sustainable land management in Khorezm Province, Uzbekistan

Akramkhanov, Akmal / Muhammad Mehmood Ul Hassan / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2018)
External Publications

Linking small-scale farmers to the durum wheat value chain in Ethiopia: assessing the effects on production and wellbeing

Biggeri, Mario / Francesco Burchi / Federico Ciani / Raoul Herrmann (2018)
External Publications

Creating wealth without labour? Emerging contours of a new techno-economic landscape

Lütkenhorst, Wilfried (2018)
Discussion Paper 11/2018

The paper addresses key technological trends in the digitalization of industrial production and their impact on employment, equality, productivity, global value chains and resource efficiency. It also reviews the implications for industrial policy and the measures taken in several countries.

Mission impossible? Country-level coordination in the UN development system

Baumann, Max-Otto (2018)
Discussion Paper 7/2018

The paper analyzes coordination in the United Nation’s development system: How well do the UN’s on average 18 entities per country work together? What impedes a better coordination? The paper concludes that the UN’s weaknesses are also attributable to how member states chose to deal with the UN.

Policy options for improving drought resilience and its implication for food security: the cases of Ethiopia and Kenya

Duguma, Mesay K. / Michael Brüntrup / Daniel Tsegai (2017)
Studies 98

Droughts in developing countries have multi-faceted negative implications for the vulnerable population, in particular for food insecurity. Drought policies need to be pro-active, inter-sectorial, adaptable and bottom-up. The study analyses the policies of Ethiopia and Kenya.

Cash transfers, food security and resilience in fragile contexts: general evidence and the German experience

Camacho, Luis A. / Merle Kreibaum (2017)
Discussion Paper 9/2017

This paper provides an overview of the evidence on the impact of cash-based interventions (CBIs) on immediate, underlying, and basic causes of food and nutrition security. In particular, their high flexibility to contexts and needs and their ability to link short and long-term outcomes underline that CBIs should be part of every response analysis.

Legitimacy of Future Development Cooperation

Bonn, 29. November 2010

The year 2010 has offered a number of milestones to reflect on future directions for development cooperation policy. As donors consider how to move forward with the MDG Agenda, improve the effectiveness of their development interventions, and engage in organisational restructuring processes to confront future challenges, they find…

Governing international science, technology, and innovation co-operation for sustainable development

Rio de Janeiro, 15. June 2012

Since 2008, an international expert group has been working under the guidance of the OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy on the question of how international co-operation in science, technology and innovation (STI) can be better organized to achieve faster and more effective knowledge-based responses to the challenges…

Between frustration and optimism: the development outcome of the Millennium+5 Summit

Loewe, Markus / Thomas Fues (2005)
Briefing Paper 7/2005

Approaches to crisis-preventing and conflict-sensitive development cooperation

Klingebiel, Stefan (2001)
Briefing Paper 4/2001

Re-imagining the use of integrated assessment models from a social science perspective—lessons from the Sustainable Development Pathways (SDP)

Hernandez, Ariel Macaspac / Sarah E Cornell / Dorothee Keppler / Vassilis Daioglou / Bjoern Soergel (2024)
External Publications

EU and UN Development Cooperation: what should Germany work for?

Weinlich, Silke / Sven Grimm (2009)
Briefing Paper 13/2009

China, Europe and the future of global governance

Bonn, 12. May 2011

The panel discussion is linked to a workshop of DIE with the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS) on the topic "Building Harmonious World" and "Global Governance": A comparison of concepts for global politics from China and Europe. Please note that the workshop is by invitation only. The CIIS is the think tank of China’s…

Navigating the trilemma: central banking in East Asia between inflation targeting, exchange-rate management and guarding financial stability

Volz, Ulrich (2015)
External Publications

Climate action beyond mitigation and the global North

Chan, Sander (2016)
External Publications

New approaches to development cooperation in middle-income countries: brokering collective action for global sustainable development

Paulo, Sebastian / Stephan Klingebiel (2016)
Discussion Paper 8/2016

Middle-income countries are central to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Development cooperation actors will have to act as brokers of collective action to support domestic reforms in and global engagement by this group of countries.

Local feminist perspectives as transformation levers for sustainable development in Ukraine in the context of ongoing defence

Strelnyk, Olena / Liudmyla Yuzva / Tamara Zlobina (2025)
Discussion Paper 7/2025

Local feminist perspectives from Ukraine underscore the persistence of gender-transformative policies during the defensive war, revealing the impact of feminist action on social change, along with its successes, challenges, and limitations in shaping sustainable feminist policies.

Green economic policy and development research: lessons for the future

Bonn, 09. May 2025

This workshop mainly consisted of three panels: What is good green economic policy? Our economies must become greener: decarbonised, less material-intensive, circular. However, green alternatives often lack cost-competitiveness where environmental costs are externalised. Willingness to pay for the environment is declining, as people…

Opportunities in regional and global spaces

Johannesburg, 18. June 2025

Session in OTT Conference, “Think Tanks + Impact: Challenging our Understanding of Influence” Policy impact is hard to plan for and measure in the national context of a think tank; it often is an ambiguous process without clear notions of ‘causal relations’. This challenge redoubles when we look at operations in (international) networks…

Global Transformation towards Sustainability

Bonn, 01. April 2019

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and the International Office at the University of Bonn co-organized the Alumni Spring School „Global transformation towards Sustainability – Transciplinary peer learning between Africa, Europe and Rising Powers for the 2030 Agenda”, which took place from 1…