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On the unilateral introduction of gold-backed currencies

Volz, Ulrich / Ansgar H. Belke (2015)
External Publications

Regering, de rechter is niet uw debatpartner

Pauw, Pieter / Sander Chan (2015)
External Publications

Smallholder telecoupling and climate governance in Jambi Province

Kunz, Yvonne / Fenna Otten / Rina Mardiana / Katrin Martens / Imke Roedel / Heiko Faust (2019)
External Publications

Export curbs on essential goods in the wake of Covid-19 and the Least Developed Countries: permanent scarring from a temporary outburst

Evenett, Simon (2021)
Briefing Paper 19/2021

This Briefing Paper outlines the key policy developments implicating the trade in essential goods during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic and draws out the implications for development policy and trade policy cooperation.

Negotiating the implementation of peacebuilding: a challenge for the transition to peace and democracy

Groß, Lisa (2017)
Briefing Paper 10/2017

This policy brief scrutinises the particular challenges that international actors confront during a negotiation process. Peacebuilding success not only depends on the effective negotiation of peace agreements, but on how negotiations fare during the implementation of peacebuilding on the ground.

Greece: a crisis of governance

Faust, Jörg / Ulrich Volz (2012)
The Current Column, 06. February 2012

Even poor countries can afford basic social protection schemes, from which their economic development will benefit, as well

Loewe, Markus (2010)
The Current Column, 06. December 2010

Quo vadis democracy promotion?

Faust, Jörg (2011)
The Current Column, 07. November 2011

Whither Zimbabwe, after 37 years of Robert Mugabe

Jaji, Rose (2018)
External Publications

African leaders who base their power on military support instead of the electorate need to understand that this support can be withdrawn when the army loses confidence in the incumbent. The best way to lead a country is to get a mandate from citizens through free and fair elections.

History repeats? The rise of the new middle classes in the developing world

Furness, Mark / Imme Scholz / Alejandro Guarín (2012)
Briefing Paper 19/2012

The challenges of “drought migration”

Adaawen, Stephen / Benjamin Schraven (2019)
The Current Column, 17. June 2019

Will droughts and advancing desertification send a new wave of refugees towards Europe? And what do researchers have to say about the correlation between drought, desertification and human mobility? How should policy-makers address this “drought migration”?

The microfinance crisis

Wolff, Peter (2010)
The Current Column, 15. March 2010

Beyond vested interests: reforming international co-operation post COVID 19

Scholz, Imme (2020)
External Publications

On the effects of transfer pricing regulations: a developing country perspective

Laudage Teles, Sabine / Nadine Riedel / Kristina Strohmaier (2022)
External Publications

The big flag issues for Global development policy in 2026: Trump 2.0, China’s status, Russia the spoiler, multi-alignment and 80% autocracy

Sumner, Andy / Stephan Klingebiel (2025)
External Publications

Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel argue that the old assumptions about who sets development policy norms, who pays, and who decides what counts as “cooperation” no longer seem to hold.

Refugees and migrants between everyday conflict and peace processes. Conference documentation

Christ, Simone (2020)
External Publications

Water scarcity in developing countries?

Schiffler, Manuel (1998)
Briefing Paper 3/1998

Allocating the next European Development Fund for ACP countries

Negre, Mario (2013)
The Current Column, 06. December 2013

The European Development Fund (EDF) is the key instrument for the implementation the European Agenda for Change vis-à-vis Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP).

Tidal turns: coastal urbanities in Island Southeast Asia

Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2023)
External Publications

Academic conferences need a thorough overhaul!

Reiber, Tatjana / Anna Schwachula (2020)
The Current Column, 09. November 2020

The actual objective of academic get-togethers is to exchange knowledge, generate new ideas and forge networks. When conferences fail to serve these purposes, they become a waste of time.