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Benefits and challenges of a WTO Investment Facilitation Framework for Development for Latin American economies

Online, 05. May 2021

Investment facilitation can be understood as a set of measures concerned, among other things, with improving the transparency and predictability of investment frameworks, streamlining procedures related to foreign investors and enhancing coordination and cooperation among different stakeholders, to attract foreign direct investment (FDI)…

Seven principles to guide German development policy

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Imme Scholz (2021)
The Current Column, 10. May 2021

For Germany in this election year, a number of questions arise in its external policy areas. What will the future model for German development policy look like?

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,…

UNESCO Chair in Human-Water Systems

Online, 18. May 2021

A key challenge for sustainable water management and thus sustainable development as a whole is the complexity of human-water-systems. Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches and the targeted processing of research results are central for a better understanding and sustainable implementation of knowledge. This is where the new UNESCO…

Rethinking Land in the Anthropocene

Online, 27. May 2021

The latest WBGU (German Advisory Council on Global Change) flagship report diagnoses a "trilemma" of global land use, consisting of diverse demands made on land for the purposes of climate-change mitigation, food security and the conservation of biological diversity. The Council proposes five governance strategies to address this…

Latecomer development in the global green economy

Online, 01. June 2021

In recent years, the paradigm change toward a global green economy has been gaining speed. More than 110 countries, many of them in the low and middle income groups, have pledged to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 or earlier. More importantly, major players have substantiated their plans by finance and pathways to implementation. These…

International Trade, Firms and Jobs

Online, 02. June 2021

The online seminar series "Policy Implications of Recent Globalization Research" aims to encourage the exchange and discussion of empirical research on trade and investment and its effects on developing and emerging countries. The seminar differs from a traditional academic seminar, which focuses on methodology and academic exchange, and…

Shifting to the digital: a case study of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) academy as a digital learning format

Fiselier, Evelien (2021)
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Municipalities are Shaping the Future

Dick, Eva / Paul Marschall / Christopher Wingens (2021)
The Current Column, 14. June 2021

Some local authorities are engaged in long-standing partnerships in which the administrations of both parties engage in dialogue on sustainable public services. This results in both parties learning lessons.

Global Tax Expenditures Database

Online, 16. June 2021

The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) are officially launching their joint project: The Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED): www.GTED.net . GTED is the first database that brings together publicly available official information on tax expenditures…

Reforming the United Nations Development System

The UNDS has been undergoing an ambitious reform process. Member states and UN organisations need to step up their support for reforms to succeed.

Shaping sustainable supply chains

An immense share of global value creation takes place in supply chains. DIE contributes to research and policy advice on supply chains.

How to align national Covid-19 recoveries with the Sustainable Development Goals

Hege, Elisabeth / Niels Keijzer (2021)
External Publications

Press release: New Global Tax Expenditures Database by CEP and DIE: Shedding Light on Hidden Government Spending

The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and DIE today launch the Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED). The database went live today at www.GTED.net

Tim Stoffel

Tim Stoffel is Political Scientist and former Researcher of the Research Programme "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems".

(Im)mobility in international research cooperation

Online, 22. June 2021

2 nd Workshop on International Research Cooperation of “Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer” (FFVT) Nowadays, partnerships are state of the art in international research projects but underlying motivations often vary between the mere desire to meet funding requirements and the honest pursuit of more…

Why it matters how we produce knowledge on marine CO2 observations

Hägele, Ramona / Mirja Schoderer (2021)
The Current Column, 28. June 2021

Partner meeting of the BMZ African-German Leadership Academy

Online, 29. June 2021

The African German Leadership Academy aims to provide the leadership skills and knowledge needed to foster sustainable development in line with the development visions of Africa’s Agenda 2063 and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This innovative and primarily in-person dialogue and training programme brings together young…

The Impact of Immigration

Online, 30. June 2021

The online seminar series "Policy Implications of Recent Globalization Research" aims to encourage the exchange and discussion of empirical research on trade and investment and its effects on developing and emerging countries. The seminar differs from a traditional academic seminar, which focuses on methodology and academic exchange, and…

Improving transnational and transdisciplinary cooperation through reflecting on implicit values and power structures

Online, 06. July 2021

In order to promote the goals of the 2030 Agenda, achieve global solidarity and social justice, a transformation of societies in the global North as well as the global South towards these objectives is crucial. Transnational and transdisciplinary networks are key actors for the creation of the kind of transformative knowledge needed.…