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Universality, integration, and policy coherence for sustainable development: early SDG implementation in selected OECD countries

O’Connor, David / James Mackie / Daphne van Esveld / Hoseok Kim / Imme Scholz / Nina Weitz (2016)
External Publications

Why Germany should give high priority to supporting the African Continental Free Trade Area during the EU Council Presidency

Keijzer, Niels / Clara Brandi / Axel Berger / Frederik Stender (2020)
The Current Column, 07. September 2020

There is barely another region of the world in which the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed structural issues with global trade integration so clearly as in Africa. The continent’s exports had already been impacted negatively by price turbulence on the international commodities markets at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis.

Integrated approaches for a circular economy in German development cooperation

Never, Babette (2023)
The Current Column, 13. February 2023

In the context of green industrial policy, the circular economy offers tremendous overlooked potential for creating green jobs and conserving resources in Africa and beyond.

Why development cooperation needs to treat water as more than a commodity

Rodriguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo / Mirja Schoderer (2021)
The Current Column, 22. March 2021

Water has multiple meanings, reducing them only to its economic dimension neglects the social embeddedness of water and risks marginalizing the most vulnerable.

Preventing the worst from happening is not enough.

Messner, Dirk (2018)
External Publications

We live in turbulent times. The world (economy) is becoming increasingly interconnected, as are political issues around the globe. However, it is the new nationalist approach to world affairs. This approach cannot go well in the long term.

The Fragmentation of Global Environmental Governance: Causes, Consequences and Responses

Bonn, 29. August 2011

Background: The workshop addressed the emerging phenomenon of institutional fragmentation in global governance today. The term fragmentation refers to the growing diversity and lack of coordination among private or public norms, treaties and organizations that address a given issue area of international politics. An elaborate concept of…

Water crises – water opportunities promoting water cooperation in the Middle East

Houdret, Annabelle / Tobias von Lossow (2023)
External Publications

Potentials and Challenges of a Future AU-EU Trade Agreement

Online, 12. May 2021

Africa’s role in the world trading system is currently receiving increased attention. In 2018, the members of the African Union (AU) adopted the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement to create the world’s largest free trade area in terms of participating countries. On 1 January 2021, Africa began trading under the AfCFTA,…

China and Rwanda – natural allies or uneasy partners in regime stability

Grimm, Sven / Christine Hackenesch (2019)
External Publications

Staying engaged as Team Europe in fragile settings

Desmidt, Sophie / Julian Bergmann / Benedikt Erforth / Sara Gianesello (2024)
External Publications

Transnational cooperation and social contracts

Furness, Mark (2024)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Addressing the global water crisis in a challenging political environment

Online, 10. March 2025

Too little, too much, too dirty – water challenges in virtually all countries are increasing with climate change and due to overuse and lacking treatment of the precious resource. Global and local changes in water flows could “(…) increasingly lead to threatening situations that are beyond the spectrum of human experience and could…

Constitution and erosion of a monetary economy: problems of India’s development since independence

Schelkle, Waltraud (1994)
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Democracy is the firewall against abuse

Lorch, Jasmin / Ani Tovmasyan (2025)
The Current Column, 27. October 2025

Examples from Asia show that cyber security measures can also become tools of repression unless grounded in democratic institutions and politics.

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.

DIE rated leading think tank

DIE rated leading think tank DIE rated leading think tank 2013 Global Go To Think Tank Ranking: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) has established itself in the top 100 think tanks worldwide Press Release, 22 January 2014 Today, the current Global Go To Think Tank Ranking was presented in New York, Washington D.C., and Berlin. In the group of leading development policy think tanks the German Development Institute /…

Improving donor support for governance: the case for more rigorous impact evaluation

Garcia, Maria Melody (2011)
Briefing Paper 11/2011

Global Value Chains for Inclusive Development

Tokyo, 28. May 2019

Foreign direct investment (FDI) offers a useful entry point for integration into global value chains (GVCs). It also offers a host of technology and financial resources that may bring tangible benefits to domestic firms and industries, thereby increasing their productivity and capability. However, FDI attraction is not without its…

After the military: development policy? Questions to be asked of realistic develop-ment cooperation with Afghanistan and other fragile states

Grävingholt, Jörn (2010)
The Current Column, 16. August 2010

Geopolitics, the Global South and Development Policy

Klingebiel, Stephan (2023)
Policy Brief 14/2023

Far-reaching geopolitical upheavals have shaped international relations in the recent past. This policy brief discusses the new geopolitical and geo-economic context and its significance for the Global South and development policy.