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Green transformation and competitive advantage

Bonn, 18. June 2018

International Research and Policy Conference on Green transformation and competitive advantage hosted by the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP), and Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Developing country governments are increasingly…

Assessing the impact of governance programmes: GIZ support to citizen participation in local governance in Benin

Groß, Lisa (2018)
Discussion Paper 16/2018

How can we assess impact in governance programmes? This publication provides an exemplary impact assessment of a decentralisation programme in Benin. It analyses whether and how support to citizen participation contributes to the quality of public services and local governance at local level.

French-German cooperation towards global development

Paris, 21. June 2018

On 21 June 2018, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungpolitik (DIE) and Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales / Institut d'études politiques de Paris (IDDRI) convened a workshop with French and German experts on global development and development cooperation. The purpose was to…

We Exist! - Filmvorführung 02.07.2018

Bonn, 02. July 2018

Wir erinnern uns: die Fernsehbilder von Hunderttausenden Flüchtlingen, zu Fuß auf der Balkanroute in überfüllten Bahnhöfen, Turnhallen oder Booten auf dem Mittelmeer. Erwartungsvolle Gesichter, in der Hoffnung auf ein besseres Leben. Willkommenskultur war das Wort dieser durch Emotionen geprägten Wochen und Monate. Heute, drei Jahre…

2018

2018 Jump to: Dezember 2018 November 2018 Oktober 2018 September 2018 August 2018 Juli 2018 Juni 2018 Mai 2018 April 2018 März 2018 Februar 2018 Januar 2018 Dezember 2018 Making Climate Action More Transparent and Ambitious: Lessons Learned From the NDCs This event was grounded in the notion that current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) lack sufficient ambition and clarity for achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. Moderated by Arunabha Ghosh, Council…

Employment creation through industrial policy in the MENA countries

Bonn, 21. September 2018

Lack of productive employment is one of the most pressing challenges of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). No other region in the world has such high rates of unemployment and underemployment. Policy makers across the region are extremely concerned about the problem but have not yet been able to identify an effective…

Weinreich, Jan

Researcher, Research Programme "Transformation of political (dis-)order"

Give citizens a more audible voice in development cooperation

Marschall, Paul (2018)
The Current Column, 12. November 2018

In Tanzania a planned law change would criminalise the questioning of public statistics.The World Bank and NGOs are deeply concerned about that issue.

Impact assessments in the governance sector

Bonn, 21. November 2018

Impact assessment has become a common practice in international development cooperation. This is also the case when it comes to governance programmes. Against this background, the „Impact Initiative Africa“ was launched as a cooperation between GIZ Headquarters, the GIZ offices in Benin and Mozambique and the DIE. The project officially…

Global Outlook on Financing for Sustainable Development: Time to face the challenge

Bonn, 19. December 2018

Financing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries is a major challenge. Urgent and bold action is needed to implement the AAAA and fulfil the promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Financing sustainable development is an investment in the well-being of all nations. OECD countries must face the…

Unbundling the impacts of economic empowerment programmes: evidence from Malawi

Burchi, Francesco / Christoph Strupat (2018)
Discussion Paper 32/2018

We conducted a randomized control trial in order to assess the impacts of the Tingathe Economic Empowerment Project in Malawi. We find in particular that poor and labour-constrained households benefited from the project and that the provided training increased the productive use of the lump-sum.

2019

2019 Jump to: Dezember 2019 November 2019 Oktober 2019 September 2019 August 2019 Juli 2019 Juni 2019 Mai 2019 April 2019 März 2019 Februar 2019 Januar 2019 Dezember 2019 „Verkehrssysteme umbauen” Die kommissarische Direktorin des Deutschen Instituts für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Imme Scholz , wünscht sich für 2020 ein verbessertes Klimapaket. Außerdem müssten die Verkehrssysteme umgebaut werden, sagte Scholz im SWR Tagesgespräch. Emissionen müssten viel schneller…

The social contract for reconstruction in MENA

Trautner, Bernhard (2018)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Modicare could help India’s poor population

Strupat, Christoph (2019)
The Current Column, 11. March 2019

India has long played a key role in including poor households in the health care system. The country with one of the highest levels of absolute poverty in the world.

Investment Facilitation for Sustainable Development

Berlin, 19. March 2019

International discussions on investment facilitation have been very dynamic in previous years. The concept of investment facilitation covers a wide range of areas, with the ultimate focus on promoting foreign investment that flows efficiently and to the greatest benefit of host countries. International discussions on this concept have…

Promoting tax compliance with behavioral insights

Hernandez, Marco / Jonathan Karver / Mario Negre / Julie Perng (2019)
Books

Options for closer cooperation and joint leadership of France and Germany

Berlin, 05. April 2019

On 5 April 2019, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungpolitik (DIE) and Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales / Institut d'études politiques de Paris (IDDRI) convened a workshop with French and German experts on global development and development cooperation. The purpose was to…

International consortium to examine implementation process and impact of India’s new health insurance scheme

Press release from 13 May 2019

What makes economic empowerment programmes successful? Experimental evidence from Malawi

Burchi, Francesco / Christoph Strupat (2019)
External Publications

Telling the wood from the trees

Bonn, 18. June 2019

This event presented innovative findings from empirical research on forest conservation in Indonesia. It launched the recently published book by Dr. Jonas Hein, “Political Ecology of REDD+ in Indonesia: Agrarian Conflicts and Forest Carbon” and discussed its insights at the nexus of development research, international climate governance…