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Press release: Study shows importance of developing and emerging countries for successful international climate policy

A new study by DIE and NewClimate Institute shows how international cooperation can contribute to implementing the goals of the Paris Agreement worldwide.

What future for the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee?

Klingebiel, Stephan (2021)
The Current Column, 04. October 2021

In a sense, 1961 can be regarded as the “Big Bang” for international development policy. Under the shadow of the Cold War, the US was pushing an international system to support developing countries.

3D-Digital Development Dialogue "The Climate Crisis is Now"

Online, 28. April 2022

The 3D seminar is a monthly 45-minute online forum for policy and research exchange. Two speakers – one researcher & one practitioner – touch upon key topics in development policy with the goal of stimulating a meaningful dialogue across the theory & practice divide. Speakers: Veronika Bertram (KfW) Daniel Clarke (Center for Disaster…

Further Theme Specials

Further Theme Specials Jump to: Trump's comeback in the White House Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC) Russia's war against Ukraine Investment Facilitation for Development Development Finance at a turning point Tomorrow's Development System Gender equity and development: Embracing an intersectional lens Setting the course for a new German development policy Strengthening global health Building knowledge on water governance Ocean and Polar regions in inter- and…

Agenda for an AU-EU partnership for investment

Online, 13. July 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing unprecedented socio-economic consequences. In Africa , economic growth is expected to decline from 2.4% in 2019 to -2.1 to -5.1% in 2020, household welfare losses will range from 7% to 10% on average, about 19 to 22 million jobs could be lost. Already before the Corona pandemic a huge knowledge gap existed…

Aid was yesterday, what comes next?

Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel / Sebastian Paulo (2015)
The Current Column, 16. February 2015

On 2 February 2015 the House of Commons of the British Parliament released a report on what ‘beyond aid’ means for the future of British development cooperation.

A better link between security and development in the European Union? The European Community’s Instrument for Stability (IfS)

Gänzle, Stefan (2009)
Briefing Paper 9/2009

Germany's new government

Online, 16. April 2025

The coalition agreement for a new German government is now in place. How does a future CDU/CSU and SPD government wants to rethink and organise its relations with actors in the Global South and German development policy? IDOS experts provided first assessments with regard to Germany's foreign policies in a virtual press briefing on…

NDC-SDG Connections

NDC-SDG Connections Jump to: Team Publications Projects The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement (NDCs) have some important things in common. Both are universal – in the sense that they demand action in all countries of the world, and that they seek to benefit everyone, including the most vulnerable and marginalised. They are both designed to be implemented from the bottom up, as countries set…

Commoditizing water territories: the clash between Andean water rights cultures and payment for environmental services policies

Boelens, Rutgerd / Jaime Dinge Hoogesteger-van-Dijk / Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco (2014)
External Publications

Municipal development policy in Germany: current status and prospects

Wingens, Christopher / Paul Marschall / Eva Dick (2021)
Briefing Paper 17/2021

Municipal development policy is growing in significance in Germany. Cities, districts and local authorities are working with numerous stakeholders to enhance their engagement in this field. The activities are being well received and having an impact in Germany and abroad.

Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz in Berlin

Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz in Berlin Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz in Berlin Press Release of 9 March 2009 As a consequence of the world financial crisis, the President of the UN General Assembly established the UN-Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System in the fall of 2008. The Commission is chaired by Joseph Stiglitz, the 2001-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. In the run-up to the second meeting…

What role for the rotating Presidency in European development policy? The case of ACP-EU relations

Keijzer, Niels / Gerard Schulting (2018)
External Publications

EU engagement in fragile and conflict-affected states: towards a dedicated strategy

Bergmann, Julian / Jasmin Lorch (2024)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

‘Donorship' and strategic policymaking: Germany's MENA aid programme since the Arab uprisings

Furness, Mark (2019)
External Publications

How Skilled Immigrants Affect Local Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Online, 09. February 2022

The online seminar series 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 instead aims to promote the translation of academic…

A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century

Online, 02. March 2022

The online seminar series 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 instead aims to promote the translation of academic…

Can Information Shift Preferences Towards Trade Policy? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

Online, 12. January 2022

The online seminar series 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 instead aims to promote the translation of academic…

Climate Change and the Cost of Capital in Climate Vulnerable Developing Countries

Berlin, 30. October 2018

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and UN Environment covened a one-day workshop in Berlin to examine the technical and policy aspects of the impact of integrating climate risk into financial market decision-making on the cost of capital for climate vulnerable developing countries. The…

Four futures for a Global development cooperation system in flux: policy at the intersection of geopolitics, norm contestation and institutional shift

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner (2025)
Policy Brief 11/2025

This brief situates the crisis of Official Development Assistance (ODA) within a broader transformation of global development cooperation. Today’s challenge goes beyond shrinking aid budgets; it reflects deeper pressures on the post-Cold War development consensus and its institutional architecture.