Bonn, 12. February 2009
On February 12 and 13, the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) hosted a workshop designed to identify and assess the key forces that could shape the future direction of African development as an input to a scenario-building process that will unfold over the coming year. The workshop, organized in…
Special „Germany’s new foreign policy“: In this special, the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) presents its latest work on the role of Germany and Europe in dealing with global challenges that must be overcome in the coming decades.
Dick, Eva / Markus Rudolf (2019) The Current Column, 16. December 2019
With the GCR, the international community has laid down an overdue paradigm shift in refugee policy at the highest level
El-Haddad, Amirah / Aboushady, Nora (2025) The Current Column, 24. June 2025
Rather than affirming violations of international law, Germany should end arms sales that fuel ongoing wars.
Hackenesch, Christine / Sarah-Lea John de Sousa (2010) The Current Column, 29. March 2010
Sumner, Andy / Stephan Klingebiel / Arief Anshory Yusuf (2025) Policy Brief 1/2025
This paper examines the evolving role of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Develop-ment (OECD) in addressing global development challenges in the mid-2020s. It is exploring the tensions inherent in the definition of “development” and asking whose development the OECD seeks to support.
Dörrbecker, Nicola M. (2023) Discussion Paper 14/2023
How can German development cooperation learn from evaluations that are primarily used to monitor success and are also rarely read? Nicola Dörrbecker analyses such conflicts of interest with a focus on ex-post evaluations (EPE) by the development bank of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW).
Bonn, 22. June 2010
This year, more than 1,500 participants from 95 countries were discussing the topic “The Heat is on – Climate Change and the Media” in more than 50 workshops. The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) hosted the Panel “Moving towards COP 16 in Cancun – a ‘Climate Pioneer Group’ is necessary”.…
Matias, Denise Margaret (2017) Discussion Paper 24/2017
Research on slow onset climate change events is increasing. However, most research is conducted by authors from and in the regions of North America and Europe despite negative effects of slow onset events already affecting developing countries.
Online, 06. October 2020
In the months prior to the Covid-19 crisis , mass protests in Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon and Sudan seemed to foreshadow a second Arab Spring. Persistent inequality and a series of events that visibilised the rampant state corruption had sparked widespread protests across the region. These protests demonstrated how a generation of young people…
Bonn, 01. October 2019
Digitalization should be considered a transformative factor for tax systems worldwide. The use of ICT in economic transactions and tax administrations entails the prospect of addressing tax compliance, evasion, and avoidance in new ways. Increased information could also provide new opportunities for tax policy design. Digitalization could…
Erforth, Benedikt (2020) Discussion Paper 11/2020
The paper takes stock of the European development finance landscape and the EIB’s role as part of this landscape. It looks at the interactions between different European development stakeholders and assesses the proposed reform and its potential impact on European development policy.
Furness, Mark / Imme Scholz / Alejandro Guarín (2012) Briefing Paper 19/2012
Rodríguez, Jean Carlo / Ina Lehmann (2021) The Current Column, 17. May 2021
As countries of the Global North consider how to re-set their economies after the COVID-19 pandemic, this window of political opportunity should be used now to transform our economic system.
Richerzhagen, Carmen / Jean Carlo Rodriguez (2019) The Current Column, 20. May 2019
Species protection must become a cross-sectoral task of sustainable development
Bonn, 23. September 2014
Tax abuse constitutes a massive headwind against development. One common form of it is trade misinvoicing, used by multinational corporations (MNCs) to shift funds to affiliates in other jurisdictions that tax profits at lower rates or not at all. Global Financial Integrity estimates that $4.7 trillion were thus siphoned out of developing…
Stamm, Andreas (2025) The Current Column, 01. September 2025
Five years after the publication of the hydrogen strategies, euphoria has given way to disappointment.
2009 Jump to: Archive 2009 December November October September August July June May April March February January Archive 2009 Jan . Feb . March April May June July Aug . Sep . Oct . Nov . Dec . December «Jetzt müssen wir den gordischen Knoten durchhauen» Nach dem dürftigen Ergebnis von Kopenhagen ist guter Rat teuer. Dirk Messner , wissenschaftlicher Berater der deutschen Regierung, schlägt ein Klima-Abkommen vor, das besser, einfacher und gerechter sei. Der Bund…
Bauer, Steffen / Philipp Buß / Levke Sörensen (2010) The Current Column, 14. June 2010
Fischer, Doris (2011) The Current Column, 24. January 2011
