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Info Session February on the application phase for the 61st Postgraduate Programme

Online, 06. February 2025

Until March 31, we welcome applications from postgraduate students for our 61 st postgraduate programme. Are you looking for an exciting and research-intensive preparation for your work in international cooperation for development and sustainability? In our postgraduate programme, we enhance the competences of participants aspiring a…

Financial Stability in Emerging Markets - Dealing with Global Liquidity

Financial Stability in Emerging Markets - Dealing with Global Liquidity Downloads Financial_Stability_in_Emerging_Markets_Programme.pdf Financial_Stability_in_Emerging_Markets_1Braasch.pdf Financial_Stability_in_Emerging_Markets_2Chinn.pdf Financial_Stability_in_Emerging_Markets_3Chul_Park.pdf Financial_Stability_in_Emerging_Markets_4Volz.pdf Financial_Stability_in_Emerging_Markets_5Huang.pdf Financial_Stability_in_Emerging_Markets_6Xiaopu.pdf…

Info Sessions on the application phase for the 61st Postgraduate Programme

Online, 10. January 2025

Until March 31, we welcome applications from postgraduate students for our 61 st postgraduate programme. Are you looking for an exciting and research-intensive preparation for your work in international cooperation for development and sustainability? In our postgraduate programme, we enhance the competences of participants aspiring a…

千年发展目标与可持续发展目——人类发展目标同全球公共产品目标的结合?

Loewe, Markus (2014)
External Publications

Info Session March on the application phase for the 61st Postgraduate Programme

Online, 13. March 2025

Until March 31, we welcome applications from postgraduate students for our 61 st postgraduate programme. Are you looking for an exciting and research-intensive preparation for your work in international cooperation for development and sustainability? In our postgraduate programme, we enhance the competences of participants aspiring a…

Security: What we need to talk about

German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) (2025)
External Publications

A time of reflection on development and development policies

Wiemann, Jürgen (2011)
The Current Column, 19. September 2011

Application Deadline expired: Job advertisment: student / research assistant (f/m/diverse) One Health

The IDOS Research Programme “Environmental Governance and Transformation to Sustainability” is looking for a student assistant for its new project "One Health on the Move"

Conflicting interests and the localisation of international migration governance norms in Ghana

Jaji, Rose (2024)
Policy Brief 21/2024

Domestic priorities in the form of internal political and economic agendas play an important role in determining which aspects of international and (sub-)regional migration governance norms are localised.

Connecting competences for sustainable water futures

Online, 17. November 2020

2.1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water and more than 4.5 billion have no safe sanitation. In many countries, increasing water scarcity threatens food security and energy production or leads to conflict. For the past 15 years, seven Bonn-based organizations have been sharing their insights into solutions towards a more…

Digging Deeper

Online, 23. March 2022

This year's theme for World Water Day is “Groundwater - making the invisible visible”. Although not directly observable with our eyes, groundwater represents the largest share of our global freshwater resources. Especially in many arid and semi-arid areas, where the potential for surface water use has already been exhausted, groundwater…

The role of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC)

Online, 29. September 2021

Since its foundation in 1961, the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) – nerve centre of the aid effort of the “rich” countries (some $160 billion in 2020) – has played a central role in the Post-War aid system. This book traces the history of the institution and reflects on its future. How intense diplomacy by US Deputy Secretary…

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…

Bridging the gaps: an integrated approach to assessing aid effectiveness

Janus, Heiner / Paul Marschall / Hannes Öhler (2020)
Briefing Paper 12/2020

This briefing paper proposes an integrated approach of aid effectiveness that brings together four fragemented policy and research communities. The integrated approach can help development organisations and researchers to better organise and communicate their contributions to the 2030 Agenda.

Regional migration governance in Africa and beyond: a framework of analysis

Dick, Eva / Benjamin Schraven (2018)
Discussion Paper 9/2018

In international policies, regional migration regimes in Africa and elsewhere are becoming acknowledged political players. However, little is known about their features and actual performance. Introducing a framework of analysis for regional migration governance this paper addresses this gap.

A mountain worth climbing: reforming the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Janus, Heiner / Silke Weinlich (2018)
Briefing Paper 20/2018

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) is a key multilateral organisation in development. However, DESA has yet to unlock its full potential in playing a politically relevant and analytically authoritative role in sustainable development.

Im Fokus der Forschung: Digitalisierung, Arbeitsprogramme für Flüchtlinge und Recycling

Press release from 6 February 2019

Data for development: an agenda for German development cooperation

Schwegmann, Claudia / Sarah Holzapfel (2018)
Briefing Paper 12/2018

Data is a central but underestimated prerequisite for the realisation of the 2030 Agenda. Although technical innovations have led to an explosion of data, significant data gaps still exist in developing countries in particular.

New Book: Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers: new partners or old patterns?

New Book: Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers: new partners or old patterns? Jump to: New Book: Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers: new partners or old patterns New Book: Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers: new partners or old patterns Chaturvedi, Sachin / Thomas Fues / Elizabeth Sidiropoulus (eds.) (2012): Development cooperation and emerging powers: new partners or old patterns? London/New York: ZED Books ISBN: 9781780320632 The new book "…

Science Council welcomes positive developments

Science Council welcomes positive developments Wissenschaftsrat begrüßt positive Entwicklung des Deutschen Instituts für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Pressemitteilung vom 25.11.2010 In der vom Wissenschaftsrat (WR) im November 2010 verabschiedeten Stellungnahme zur „ Umsetzung der Empfehlungen aus der zurückliegenden Evaluation des Deutschen Instituts für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) “ fällt die Bewertung der Weiterentwicklung des DIE äußerst positiv aus. Insgesamt würdigt…