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The frayed state

Christian von Haldenwang (2014)
The Current Column, 11. July 2014

The debate regarding the post-2015 agenda, i.e. the goals of global development after 2015, places obligations on states including the states of the northern hemisphere.

Stop distributional injustice - do it now!

Rippin, Nicole (2014)
The Current Column, 29. September 2014

30 September 2014 sees the end of the debate of the United Nations General Assembly on the future form of international development co-operation. For the first time, these goals also include targets for tackling inequality.

Navigating trade and development cooperation in a fragmenting global order

Brandi, Clara / Zoryana Olekseyuk / Frederik Stender (2026)
Staff - Other

Harnessing the Potential of Digital Sustainable Finance to Accelerate the Agenda 2030

Bonn, 08. October 2025

Digital technologies are revolutionising the financial sector. They also provide an opportunity for overcoming barriers to development and sustainable finance. For instance, big data and automated data collection allow for analysing and assessing risk and impacts at a fraction of the cost of conventional approaches. They also provide an…

Green Industrial Policy

We need to pursue economic development and wealth creation while keeping resource consumption and pollution in accordance with Earth’s bio-capacity. This is what Green Industrial Policy is about.

How Germany and the EU Must Build on the FfD4 Conference

Walle, Yabibal / Kathrin Berensmann / Clara Brandi (2025)
The Current Column, 30. June 2025

Germany and the EU should back up words with action - with implementation strategies and leadership in the Sevilla Platform for Action.

What can one do with a bag of hot air? – Consequences of the UN Summit in New York for the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals

Loewe, Markus (2010)
The Current Column, 27. September 2010

Geberkoordinierung: eine wesentliche Voraussetzung für eine effizientere und wirksamere Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Ashoff, Guido (2004)
Analyses and Commentary 7/2004

Investment Facilitation for Development: How Asian and Pacific Economies Will Benefit

Online, 19. May 2022

This high-level event is meant to offer a platform for a strategic exchange on the negotiations on an Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD) Agreement in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), launched in September 2020 after over two years of preparatory discussions. The negotiations bring together over 110 WTO Members at all levels…

How can the G7 and the UN make multilateralism sustainable?

Weinlich, Silke / Marianne Beisheim (2022)
The Current Column, 14. February 2022

How could the German G7 Presidency and the UN Secretary-General leverage their objectives to each other’s benefit?

Fit for the purpose? Juxtaposing global development discussions on knowledge sharing with African realities

Akude, John Emeka / Niels Keijzer (2014)
External Publications

MDGs and SDGs: are the concepts compatible?

Loewe, Markus (2014)
External Publications

Auktor, Georgeta

Georgeta Auktor ist Ökonomin und war Assoziierte Wissenschaftlerin am IDOS.

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.

Global Transformation towards Sustainability

Bonn, 01. April 2019

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and the International Office at the University of Bonn co-organized the Alumni Spring School „Global transformation towards Sustainability – Transciplinary peer learning between Africa, Europe and Rising Powers for the 2030 Agenda”, which took place from 1…

New WBGU flagship report "Humanity on the move: Unlocking the transformative power of cities"

New WBGU flagship report "Humanity on the move: Unlocking the transformative power of cities" New WBGU flagship report "Humanity on the move: Unlocking the transformative power of cities" Berlin, 25 April 2016 . "Urban growth is so immense that it must urgently be channelled in new directions," said WBGU Co-Chair Dirk Messner , Director of the German Development Institute. If more and more new settlements were to be built with cement and steel in the cities of the…

Getting to zero poverty and zero emissions

Brussels, 15. June 2016

The Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015, is a major breakthrough in our joint fight against climate change. In terms of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it will be the main instrument to reach SDG 13: 'Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.' Approaches such as the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project…

Scaling up sustainable finance and investment in the Global South

Volz, Ulrich / Dirk Schoenmaker (2022)
External Publications

Russia: supporting non-democratic tendencies in the post-soviet space?

Kästner, Antje (2010)
Briefing Paper 2/2010

Effects of social cash transfers on the different dimensions of poverty

Bonn, 07. November 2018

On 7 November 2018, the German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungs-politik (DIE) organised a PEGNet Expert Meeting on the “Effects of social cash transfers on the different dimensions of poverty” in co-operation with the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). Daniele Malerba and…