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How could a new universal code of conduct prevent and resolve sovereign debt crises? Proposals for design and implementation

Berensmann, Kathrin (2022)
External Publications

Institutional mechanisms for scaling up finance for the SDGs in ASEAN: lessons from the European Union

Volz, Ulrich (2022)
External Publications

Green jobs in cities: challenges and opportunities in African and Asian intermediary cities

Scholz, Wolfgang / Michael Fink (2022)
Discussion Paper 7/2022

Cities adopting a green transformation process can minimise their environmental impact and maximise green economic opportunities, including job creation, and improve quality of life for their residents. This paper assesses fields of action for African and Asian mid-sized cities.

Global Climate Governance in the Face of Obstruction

Online, 08. June 2022

A first-of-its-kind conference will bring together leading social scientists to explore obstruction of global climate action. Co-hosted by the Climate Social Science Network headquartered at Brown University and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) , the conference held virtually on 8-10 June…

Bank Credit and International Trade

Online, 08. June 2022

The online seminar series aims to encourage the exchange and discussion of empirical research on trade and investment and its effects on developing and emerging countries. The seminar differs from a traditional academic seminar, which focuses on methodology and academic exchange, and instead aims to promote the translation of academic…

Regional Expertise

Research, publications, projects, events, research partnerships, networks and sector networks in and with the world regions concerned.

Can the Anthropocene become sustainable?

Bonn and Online, 02. June 2022

The Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research cooperatively organizes the bonnalliance lecture series in the field of “sustainable development”. Until 1972, environmental protection was essentially local; “The Limits to Growth” was the breakthrough to global environmental policy. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, German environmental scientist…

Investment facilitation for development: a toolkit for policymakers

Berger, Axel / Yardenne Kagan / Karl P. Sauvant (eds.) (2022)
Books

Investment Facilitation for Development: How Arab Economies Will Benefit

Online, 01. June 2022

This high-level event is meant to offer a platform for a strategic exchange on the negotiations on an Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD) Agreement in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), launched in September 2020 after over two years of preparatory discussions. The negotiations bring together over 110 WTO Members at all levels…

A G7 infrastructure club: mobilizing the transformative power of cities to support multilateralism and the agenda 2030 in post-COVID G7/G20

Buchoud, Nicolas J. A. / Bai Xuemei / Milindo Chakrabarti / Edoardo Croci / Paramita Dey / Christian von Haldenwang / Holger Kuhle / Susan Parnell / Martin van der Pütten (2022)
External Publications

Connections that matter: how the quality of governance institutions may be the booster shot we need to reduce poverty and inequality

Allen, Cameron / Julia Kercher / Anita Breuer / Julia Leininger / Pooja Balasubramanian (2022)
External Publications

Ethical failures in global health research: violations of Sustainable Development Goal 8, decent work for all

Bangura, Ibrahim / Ananya Chakraborty / Ana Garcia-Hernandez / Lennart Kaplan / Jana Kuhnt et al. (2022)
External Publications

Leadership and partnerships for the European Green Deal: EU relations with (re)emerging economies

Grimm, Sven / Niklas Helwig / Wulf Reiners / Marco Siddi (2022)
External Publications

How significant is The Limits to Growth today?

Stamm, Andreas / Jakob Rhyner / Hartmut Ihne (2022)
The Current Column, 30. May 2022

The history of The Limits to Growth has shown that research conducted in this way can actually initiate worldwide political debates and anchor them in the public consciousness.

An eye-level partnership

Iacobuta, Gabriela (2022)
External Publications

Advancing Sustainable Urban Development in Remote Regions

Online and Bonn, 25. May 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shown that global challenges require global responses, which most often seem impossible to agree upon given our world’s heterogeneities and the significant discrepancies in the understanding of human values that once more, the tragic war in Ukraine revealed. Also in pandemic times and in times of…

Toward Urban Water Security: What works, when and why?

Online, 25. May 2022

Cities are organic, highly divided (socially, economically, politically) social spaces. These divisions manifest spatially, and ensuring the ‘right to the city’ is a difficult task. Evidence suggests that macro-approaches such as Integrated Water Resources Management or Integrated Urban Water Management are difficult to implement. Yet,…

Structural Change, Productivity Growth and Labour Market Turbulence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mensah, Emmanuel / Solomon Owusu / Neil Foster-McGregor / Adam Szirmai (2023)
External Publications

300 researchers publish communiqué with recommendations for action to G7

At the Think7 Summit, more than 300 researchers from G7 countries and beyond meet today and tomorrow to present solutions to major global challenges.

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.