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Power politics or transnational public policy? European and Chinese development cooperation with Sri Lanka and Myanmar

Henökl, Thomas / Christian Webersik (2016)
External Publications

Development policy is essential to overcoming international crises, but it must change

Scholz, Imme (2017)
The Current Column, 09. January 2017

2017 will be the year in which we must strive to establish the importance, goals, content and forms of international cooperation.

Between global and local governance: the critical ecosystem partnership fund in China

Chan, Sander / Ayşem Mert / Philipp Pattberg (2017)
External Publications

China in Africa: what challenges for a reforming EU development policy? Illustrations from country cases

Grimm, Sven / Christine Hackenesch (2016)
External Publications

Sustainability in the water-energy-food nexus

Anik Bhaduri / Claudia Ringler / Ines Dombrowsky / Rabi Mohtar / Waltina Scheumann (eds.) (2017)
Books

Conflicts of preferences and domestic constraints: understanding reform failure in liberal statebuilding and democracy promotion

Groß, Lisa / Sonja Grimm (2016)
External Publications

Treating migration as a security threat won’t make it go away

Furness, Mark (2016)
External Publications

Mobilizing private finance: unlocking the potential of Rwanda’s businesses to drive climate change adaptation

Dzebo, Adis / Pieter Pauw (2016)
External Publications

For better or worse? The global data revolution

Keijzer, Niels / Stephan Klingebiel (2017)
The Current Column, 13. January 2017

At a time when most of us are having a quiet start to the year, cleaning up desks and refreshing to-do lists, a group of UN officials, South African statisticians and international partners are frantically working to finalise preparations for the first-ever UN World Data Summit.

Why data access matters: the NDC Explorer reveals new insights on national climate action plans

Pauw, Pieter / Kennedy Mbeva / Adis Dzebo (2017)
The Current Column, 16. January 2017

With the NDC Explorer, an online visualisation tool, we aim to create more transparency about countries’ ambitions and priorities.

Trump, the Middle East and Germany

Trautner, Bernhard / Mark Furness (2017)
The Current Column, 19. January 2017

Which impact does a changed US policy in the Middle East have from the point of view of the German development policy and in the broader sense of international cooperation?

Is world trade facing a spiral into isolationism?

Berger, Axel / Clara Brandi (2017)
The Current Column, 19. January 2017

Today will see Donald Trump sworn in as the 45th president of the USA, a move that could see the system of world trade plunge into a spiral of isolationism.

Trump, Brexit, populism – wither multilateralism and liberal world order?

Thomas Henökl (2017)
The Current Column, 19. January 2017

Never before has the change of administration in the United States caused this much concern globally, and never before has an US-President incited so much tension ahead of taking office.

Assessing the legal and political implications of the post-Cotonou negotiations for the Economic Partnership Agreements

Keijzer, Niels / Lorand Bartels (2017)
Discussion Paper 4/2017

In 2016 the EU and the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States intensified preparations for the upcoming negotiations on the arrangement for their relations after the Cotonou Agreement expires in 2020. This paper assesses the legal and political implications of the upcoming post-Cotonou negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreements.

DIE ranked among the world’s best Development Think Tanks

DIE ranked among the world’s best Development Think Tanks DIE ranked among the world’s best Development Think Tanks Press release, 26 January 2017 Philadelphia / Bonn . The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) was named among the best research institutions and policy-advisers in the world. This is according to the annual Global Go To Think Tank Index Report by the University of Pennsylvania. Among the category Top…

The G20 and Africa – an alliance for sustainability?

Hackenesch, Christine / Julia Leininger (2017)
The Current Column, 30. January 2017

Cooperation with Africa is high on Germany’s agenda for its G20 Presidency. This creates high expectations for Germany and Europe’s future policies on Africa.

African Alliances for Sustainable Development

Hackenesch, Christine / Julia Leininger (2017)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Africa has recently gained a lot of attention in international politics, particularly in Germany and the European Union. However, various unknowns on the African continent and Africa’s complex interdependence with world politics leave many question marks for inter- and transnational cooperation. It is certain that sustainable development in Africa will only be achieved through structural political and economic Transformation.

Africa and the G20

Johannesburg, 01. February 2017

Africa has shown strong commitment towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. With the Agenda 2063 the AU has defined a vision and action plan to support long-term sustainable development on the continent. At the G20 Hangzhou Summit in September 2016, G20-leaders agreed to enhance policy coherence on sustainable development and…

Future of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation

Johannesburg, 02. February 2017

Against the background of a record year for multilateralism with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, the Paris Climate Agreement and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, expectations for the Second High-level Meeting (HLM2) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) in Nairobi in December 2016 have been high.…

Reshaping energy planning in developing countries

Bonn, 02. February 2017

Energy access is hallowed as an important component of the Paris Agreement on climate change. In addition, recognition of its fundamental role in achieving other global essentials, such as gender equality, economic empowerment, abolishment of indoor air pollution and deforestation, and water and food security, has led to universal energy…