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Instruction by the Minister of Finance

Klingebiel, Stephan (2023)
The Current Column, 04. May 2023

The posting simplifies and distorts Germany's laudable ODA performance, but links it to a political announcement: there will be no more money!

Drivers and constraints for adopting sustainability standards in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

Sommer, Christoph (2017)
Discussion Paper 21/2017

To “make standards work” for SMEs and sustainable development, the challenges and incentives for take-up of sustainability standards need to be better understood. The paper analyses five country case studies to identify drivers and constraints for standard adoption by SMEs and to derive policy advice.

Climate Change and the Cost of Capital in Climate Vulnerable Developing Countries

Berlin, 30. October 2018

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and UN Environment covened a one-day workshop in Berlin to examine the technical and policy aspects of the impact of integrating climate risk into financial market decision-making on the cost of capital for climate vulnerable developing countries. The…

Aiding exports: lessons from emerging economies

Brandi, Clara (2013)
External Publications

African Continental Free Trade Agreement: a review of analyses of likely impacts and challenges of implementation

Wassie, Mengistu / Lukas Kornher, Lukas / Joachim von Braun (2022)
External Publications

Taming the big green elephant. Setting the motion for transformation towards sustainability

Hernandez, Ariel Macaspac (2020)
Books

A review of ecosystem service benefits from wild bees across social contexts

Matias, Denise Margaret / Julia Leventon / Anna-Lena Rau / Christian Borgemeister / Henrik von Wehrden (2017)
External Publications

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.

Transitioning to low-carbon economies under the 2030 Agenda: minimizing trade-offs and enhancing co-benefits of climate-change action for the SDGs

Iacobuta, Gabriela / Niklas Höhne / Heleen L. van Soest / Rik Leemans (2021)
External Publications

How-to-note: rigorous impact evaluation in GIZ governance programmes - Why GIZ governance programmes should conduct impact assessments and how to get the most out of them

von Schiller, Armin (2021)
Books

Chapter 1: Introduction to "The Adaptation Gap Report: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi

Bee, Skylar / Aaron Atteridge / Pieter Pauw / Pieter Terpstra / Paul Watkiss (2016)
External Publications

The future of climate and development finance: balancing separate accounting with integrated policy responses

Koch, Svea / Mariya Aleksandrova (2023)
Policy Brief 19/2023

This paper discusses the blurring of development and climate finance and argues that the NCQG process and the integration of loss and damage into the climate finance system must go hand in hand with a separation of ODA and climate finance whilst ensuring integrated policy responses.

The impact of cash transfers on food security in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence, design and implementation

Burchi, Francesco / Christoph Strupat (2016)
Briefing Paper 15/2016

How is it possible to achieve SDG 2? The Briefing Paper highlights the important role of cash transfers in tackling food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa. However, to ensure people's sustainable graduation from food insecurity these schemes need to be part of a broader anti food insecurity strategy.

Climate change and sovereign risk

Volz, Ulrich / John Beirne / Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme / Adrian Fenton / Emilie Mazzacurati / Nuobu Renzhi / Jeanne Stampe (2020)
External Publications

Mind the (energy efficiency) gap!

Figueroa, Aurelia (2014)
The Current Column, 15. December 2014

Behavioural barriers to energy efficiency uptake have been demonstrated to impede uptake in OECD Member countries. New research points to the relevance of this topic in a global setting.

Will blockchains become the new banks for the poor?

Ohnesorge, Jan (2018)
The Current Column, 05. February 2018

Blockchain technology is turning ten years old in 2018. Despite the current hype, its future might lie in giving low-income households access to the financial system.

The changing drivers of food inflation–macroeconomics, inflation, and war

Algieri, Bernardina / Lukas Kornher / Joachim von Braun (2024)
External Publications

Feeling the heat: climate risks and the cost of sovereign borrowing

Beirne, John / Nuobu Renzhi / Ulrich Volz (2021)
External Publications

Arab Spring but bad harvests: why rural Tunisia matters for the success of the revolution

Houdret, Annabelle / Mohamed Elloumi (2013)

Germany needs an Energy Transformation foreign policy

Messner, Dirk / Jennifer Morgan (2013)
The Current Column, 07. January 2013