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Coronavirus as an opportunity for international cooperation

Marschall, Paul / Wulf Reiners (2020)
The Current Column, 23. March 2020

The novel coronavirus is keeping the world in suspense. The measures taken by numerous states are having a massive impact.

Public-private partnerships in irrigation: how can smallholders benefit?

Houdret, Annabelle / Michael Brüntrup / Waltina Scheumann (2020)
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Water plays a key role in the implementation of the Paris climate agreement

Scheumann, Waltina / Annabelle Houdret (2020)
The Current Column, 20. March 2020

Without sustainable water management, both food production and electricity generation, let alone drinking water supplies, are at risk.

The role of a multilateral framework on investment facilitation for development in facilitating sustainable fdi

Webinar, 19. March 2020

Please register here if you are interested in attending this webinar. This webinar is part of a webinar series. Upcoming topics and dates will be published soon. Negotiations on a multilateral framework on investment facilitation for development are beginning in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 12 March 2020 among 100 WTO members.…

Enhancing the capacity of water governance to deal with complex management challenges: a framework of analysis

Pahl-Wostl, Claudia / Christian Knieper / Evelyn Lukat / Franziska Meergans / Mirja Schoderer / Nora Schütze / Daniel Schweigatz / Ines Dombrowsky / Andrea Lenschow / Ulf Stein / Andreas Thiel / Jenny Tröltzsche / Rodrigo Vidaurre (2020)
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Global Transformation towards Sustainability

Bonn, 18. March 2020

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and the University of Bonn are partners in the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research . In a joint Spring School we invite African Germany-Alumni from any field of study and Alumni of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Academy of the DIE to come to…

Harnessing development cooperation to foster European climate leadership

Brüssel, 18. March 2020

The recent UN climate change conference in Madrid (COP25) was widely perceived as underwhelming in its failure to agree on key matters to support the implementation of the Paris Agreement and to ensure more ambitious climate action. All the while, the European Commission released its ambitious Green Deal and the European Parliament…

How seriously does the EU take values and standards in trade agreements?

Stender, Frederik (2020)
The Current Column, 16. March 2020

With overt protectionism once again acceptable on the global trade stage, international cooperation seems more necessary than ever. In fact, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development itself points out the positive trade and development effects of a reliable and open trade regime for the countries of the global South.

The trade effects of the Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States: early empirical insights from panel data

Stender, Frederik / Axel Berger / Clara Brandi / Jakob Schwab (2020)
Discussion Paper 7/2020

This paper provides first ex-post empirical evidence on the effects of provisionally applied Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) on trade flows between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) group of countries.

العقد الاجتماعي: أداة تحلیلیة للبلدان في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقیا وأبعد (Arabic version of: The social contract: an analytical tool for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and beyond)

Loewe, Markus / Bernhard Trautner / Tina Zintl // ماركوس لوفة / برنھارد تراوتنر/ تینا زينتلِ (2020)
Briefing Paper 6/2020

The social contract is a key term in social science literature focusing on state-society relations but has rarely been well. Our briefing paper suggests a concept where social contracts are sets of agreements between societal groups and the government on rights and obligations towards each other.

Concrete Measures to Facilitate the Flow of Sustainable FDI

Online Workshop, 11. March 2020

This capacity-building workshop aims at providing ground-level perspectives on issues relating to investment facilitation for development to enrich the negotiations of a multilateral Framework on Investment Facilitation for Development, which will begin on 12 March 2020. The discussions draw on the practical experiences of those most…

A political ecology of green territorialization: frontier expansion and conservation in the Colombian Amazon

Hein, Jonas / Carlos Del Cairo / Daniel Ortiz Gallego / Tomás Vergara Gutiérrez / Juan Sebastian Velez / Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco (2020)
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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.

How Africa and Europe can work towards a different type of relationship

Hackenesch, Christine / Niels Keijzer / Julia Leininger (2020)
The Current Column, 02. March 2020

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will soon complete her first 100 days in office. One of her priorities for this period concerned the preparations for a comprehensive strategy with Africa, which will be released soon.

The implications of the UN’s ruling on 'climate refugees'

Aleksandrova, Mariya / Benjamin Schraven / Diogo Serraglio (2020)
The Current Column, 24. February 2020

Although it is not legally binding, the UN Human Rights Committee ruling is the first to address someone’s attempt to be granted refugee status due to the impacts of climate change.

Science and sustainable development (Victoria Falls)

Victoria Falls, 24. February 2020

Pre-Event to the African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development , hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Cooperation for sustainable development (as envisaged in SDG17) between external actors and Africa often discusses assistance schemes and aid or trade or investment priorities. The debate is often on separate…

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2020 Jump to: Dezember 2020 November 2020 Oktober 2020 September 2020 August 2020 Juli 2020 Juni 2020 Mai 2020 April 2020 März 2020 Februar 2020 Januar 2020 Dezember 2020 Eine Frau für die Transformation Porträt: Anna-Katharina Hornidge ist seit Oktober 2020 Mitglied im Wissenschaftlichen Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU), seit März 2020 Direktorin des Deutschen Instituts für Entwicklungspolitik sowie Professorin für Globale Nachhaltige…

Look North: the Arctic Council as an example for the management of transboundary challenges?

Wehrmann, Dorothea (2019)
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Do environmental provisions in trade agreements make exports from developing countries greener?

Brandi, Clara / Jakob Schwab / Axel Berger / Jean-Frédéric Morin (2020)
External Publications

Indicators for energy transition targets in China and Germany: a text analysis

Yu, Lu / Bing Xue / Stefan Stückrad / Heiko Thomas / Guotian Cai (2020)
External Publications