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Last chance for a fundamental reform of German development policy?

Janus, Heiner / Armin von Schiller (2025)
The Current Column, 28. April 2025

A long-term viable development cooperation therefore requires a change in the BMZ towards greater tolerance of mistakes, a willingness to learn and a long-term focus.

COVID-19: super-accelerator or game-changer for international (development) co-operation?

Klingebiel, Stephan / Artemy Izmestiev (2020)
External Publications

Renewable, ethical? Assessing the energy justice potential of renewable electricity

Banerjee, Aparajita / Emily Prehoda / Roman Sidortsov / Chelsea Schelly (2017)
External Publications

Chinese telecommunications companies in Africa: competition or partnership with African telecommunications companies?

Cissé, Daouda (2022)
External Publications

Structural change, productivity growth and labour market turbulence in Africa

Mensah, Emmanuel Buadi / Solomon Owusu / Neil Foster‐McGregor / Adam Szirmai (2018)
External Publications

What the EU should do for democracy support in Africa: ten proposals for a new strategic initiative in times of polarisation

Hackenesch, Christine / Julia Leininger / Karina Mross (2020)
Discussion Paper 14/2020

This paper reflects on the strategic importance of EU democracy support in sub-Saharan Africa and makes 10 proposals for reform to be better able to address new challenges in a changing global context.

'Creative industries': economic programme and boundary concept

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (2011)
External Publications

Stützen oder stürzen? Der Einfluss der Europäischen Union auf die afrikanischen Freizügigkeitsagenden in West- und Nordostafrika

Castillejo, Clare / Eva Dick / Benjamin Schraven (2019)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 16/2019

Die Afrika-Politik der EU zielt seit 2015 verstärkt auf die Verhinderung irregulärer Migration ab. Das Papier zeigt, dass sich die Auswirkungen auf Freizügkeit(spolitik) in verschiedenen Regionen Afirkas deutlich unterscheiden und diskutiert die Gründe dafür.

The relevance of social policies for democracy: preventing autocratisation through synergies between SDG 10 and SDG 16

Leininger, Julia / Anna Lührmann / Rachel Sigman (2019)
Discussion Paper 7/2019

This paper explores whether different types, levels and changes in distributional inequalities (Sustainable Development Goal 10) contribute to the erosion of democratic institutions, thereby making governance less inclusive (SDG 16). It provides recommendations for integrated SDG implementation.

Deep preferential trade agreements and upgrading in global value chains: the case of Vietnam

Berger, Axel / Dominique Bruhn / Andrea Bender / Julia Friesen / Katharina Kick / Felix Kullmann / Robert Roßner / Svenja Weyrauch (2016)
Studies 92

How and to what extent can deep preferential trade agreements support upgrading of companies from developing countries within global value chains? The Transpacific Partnership and the EU-Vietnam agreement provide some new opportunities for Vietnam, but potentials will not materialize automatically.

Transforming carbon consumption patterns of the new middle classes

Bonn, 23. November 2017

The unprecedented growth of the new middle classes in middle income developing countries implies a strong growth in both consumption and carbon emissions. If the new middle classes mirror the carbon-intensive lifestyles of the industrialized countries, the remaining carbon space to manage climate change will close much more quickly. But…

Private-sector finance for climate–resilient investments

Kigali, 13. December 2016

Rwanda is often recognized as a model for how to attract and reap the benefits of international development cooperation. Its economy grew by more than 8% per year between 2001 and 2015; corruption is low; and it has one of the best “ease of doing business” rankings in Africa. At the same time, achieving Rwanda’s sustainable development…

Arab Spring, revolutions and the domino effect: How European democracy promotion can support democracies on the move

Brussels, 27. September 2012

Democratization and the protection of human rights have typically been understood as domestic phenomena. However, popular commentary on the Arab Spring has included reference to the international dimensions of the diffusion of democracy and human rights that began with the self-immolation of a street vendor in Tunisia and the subsequent…

Filling and Operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam – A Way Out

Online, 04. May 2021

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has a concrete volume of 10.5 million m3, making it the largest dam —per volume— in Africa. The dam supposed to be a hydropower dam necessary for the Ethiopian economy. The filling and operation of this gigantic dam, which has a 74-billion-cubic-meter reservoir that can theoretically store as…

The art of knowing the ocean

Online, 28. September 2021

Oceans fulfil important functions for human livelihoods and wellbeing. They regulate the global climate, provide food and economic resources and offer places of recovery, inspiration and imagination. At the same time, ocean ecosystems and the people depending on them are increasingly threatened by economic exploitation and global warming.…

Green transitions in Africa–Europe relations: what role for the European Green Deal?

Hackenesch, Christine / Maximilian Högl / Gabriela Iacobuta / Hanne Knaepen / John Asafu-Adjaye (2021)
External Publications

Digitalisation and its impact on SME finance in Sub-Saharan Africa: reviewing the hype and actual developments

Disse, Sabrina / Christoph Sommer (2020)
Discussion Paper 4/2020

Digitalisation is often seen as game changer in finance. This paper reviews and discusses the opportunities and challenges of digitalisation and tech-enabled alternative financing instruments for SMEs. It contrasts the hype around digital finance with actual market developments and trends in Africa.

Ecuador’s fiscal policies in the context of the citizens’ revolution: a ‘virtuous cycle’ and its limits

Schützhofer, Timm B. (2016)
Discussion Paper 15/2016

Resource revenues are often regarded as a major cause of states' lacking ability to tax. Can these revenues also lead to an opposite development? This paper analyses the dynamics that made possible increases in Ecuador's non resource based tax revenues in times of high resource revenues.

South-South and Triangular Cooperation

While South-South cooperation refers to collaboration between developing countries, triangular cooperation consists of support to South-South schemes provided by Northern donors, multilateral bodies or other development actors.

Political parties: weak point in the sustainability architecture

Kloke-Lesch, Adolf (2017)
The Current Column, 29. May 2017

A tragedy is looming. While the German Government and federal state governments are beginning to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the political parties behind them appear conspicuously unconcerned and are lagging perceptibly behind the dynamics in business and society.