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When home is elsewhere: housing policy challenges in the context of transit migration in Ghana and South Africa

Dick, Eva / Thorsten Heitkamp (2015)
External Publications

India’s poultry revolution: implications for its sustenance and the global poultry trade

Hellina, Jon / Vijesh V. Krishna / Olaf Erenstein / Christian Böber (2015)
External Publications

Local currency bond markets, foreign investor participation, and capital flow volatility in emerging Asia

Beirne, John / Nuobu Renzhi / Ulrich Volz (2024)
External Publications

Sustainable finance in Japan

Schumacher, Kim / Hugues Chenet / Ulrich Volz (2020)
External Publications

The potential of pro-market activism as a tool for making finance work for Africa: a political economy perspective

Dafe, Florence (2011)
Discussion Paper 2/2011

Under what conditions can government interventions in the financial sector be a successful tool to increase the financial resources available for productive investment in sub-Saharan Africa? This is the question which drives this paper.

Firms' political connections and global value chains: evidence from Egypt

Aboushady, Nora / Chahir Zaki (2021)
External Publications

The opportunities and challenges of Industry 4.0 for industrial development: a case study of Morocco’s automotive and garment sectors

Vidican Auktor, Georgeta (2022)
Discussion Paper 2/2022

Industry 4.0 will have major implications on the future of manufacturing in Morocco. Industrial policy should focus on technological upgrading in the automotive sector, while in the garment sector interventions need to be more comprehensive, emphasising capacity building, to improve technological readiness.

The rise of the service sector in the global economy

Owusu, Solomon / Adam Szirmai / Neil Foster-McGregor (2021)
External Publications

Directing structural change: from tools to policy

Altenburg, Tilman / Maria Kleinz / Wilfried Lütkenhorst (2016)
Discussion Paper 24/2016

To accelerate structural change, governments need to lay the foundations for future competitive advantages. But how can they be anticipated? We discuss various methodologies and suggest ways to consolidate their most valuable features in one synthetic approach.

Which factors determine the upgrading of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises? Evidence from Egypt, India and the Philippines

Hampel-Milagrosa, Aimée / Markus Loewe / Caroline Reeg (2013)
Discussion Paper 21/2013

Only few micro and small enterprises succeed to upgrade in low and middle income countries - and these tend to be the privileged ones: Most of them are owned by people with above-average education, financial reserves, good personal and business networks, motivation and readiness to take risks.

Which factors determine the upgrading of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises? Evidence from Egypt, India and the Philippines

Hampel-Milagrosa, Aimée / Markus Loewe / Caroline Reeg (2014)
External Publications

Rethinking State Power and Governance in a World of Complexity

Duisburg, 27. June 2013

The regulation approach is a distinctive contribution to evolutionary and institutional political economy that was developed to explain, above all, the origins, relative stability, and later crises of the Atlantic Fordist mode of growth based on mass production and mass consumption in relatively closed national economies. It identified a…

Regional financing arrangements and the stability of the international monetary system

McKay, Julie / Ulrich Volz / Regine Wölfinger (2010)
Discussion Paper 13/2010

Low carbon technology solutions and transitions

Online, 07. April 2022

A wealthy low-carbon economic development is hardly conceivable without technological innovation and changes in socio-technical systems (Rosenbloom et al 2020). Achieving net-zero emissions while not jeopardizing efforts to reduce poverty requires innovation and a fast transition towards zero emissions across all sectors including energy,…

Financing Sustainable Development

Berlin, 09. November 2015

Governments all over the world are devising green growth strategies , aiming to reconcile economic growth with low carbon emissions as well as trying to limit other forms of environmental degradation such as soil, water, and air pollution. What is needed is no less than a “green transformation” to put green growth at the heart of…

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.

The granular revolution of the platform economy

Weizsäcker, Franz von (2018)
The Current Column, 22. January 2018

Freelancers and platforms are replacing employees and companies – this trend offers many opportunities, though platform companies in particular, but also policy-makers, must take responsibility for ensuring fair working conditions.

The implementation of sustainability taxonomies: the case of South Africa

Hilbrich, Sören / Kathrin Berensmann / Giovanna Artmann / Sam Ashman / Theresa Herbold / Steffen Lötters-Viehof / Agnese Monti / Felix Paffhausen Stephanie Roigk / Lee-Ann Steenkamp (2023)
Discussion Paper 15/2023

Our case study on South Africa’s Green Finance Taxonomy (GFT) investigates challenges associated with the implementation of sustainability taxonomies as they are currently developed in many jurisdictions with the aim to increase transparency and redirect capital flows to sustainable investments.

Assessing EU-Mediterranean policies in the fields of industry and energy from a bottom-up perspective

Aboushady, Nora / Chahir Zaki / Jean-Yves Moisseron / Khaled Guesmi (2018)
External Publications

What is social finance? Definitions by market participants, the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities, and implications for development policy

Hilbrich, Sören (2021)
Discussion Paper 29/2021

Against the backdrop of the great plurality of existing definitions of social investment, this paper provides an overview on definitions followed by market participants, describes the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities as potential standard, and discusses implications for development policy.