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Why data access matters: the NDC Explorer reveals new insights on national climate action plans

Pauw, Pieter / Kennedy Mbeva / Adis Dzebo (2017)
The Current Column, 16. January 2017

With the NDC Explorer, an online visualisation tool, we aim to create more transparency about countries’ ambitions and priorities.

Are we facing a multilateral donor dilemma?

Reisen, Helmut (2014)
The Current Column, 06. October 2014

Following a decade and a half of convergence and poverty reduction in developing and emerging economies, proclamations abound that ‘We Can End Poverty’. At the same time, it is forecast that fewer countries will be eligible to receive grants or soft loans from the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) and other multilateral finance institutions. Will the end of poverty result in a donor dilemma?

Undoing “America First” at the UN

Hendra, John / Silke Weinlich (2021)
The Current Column, 18. January 2021

Biden has announced that “America is back”. To repair some of the damage at the UN, Biden already pledged to re-join the Paris climate change agreement and preserve American membership in, and financing to, the World Health Organisation (WHO)

Low-Carbon Society for a Green Economy

Low-Carbon Society for a Green Economy Jump to: Special Volume: Low-Carbon Society for a Green Economy Special Volume: Low-Carbon Society for a Green Economy The “Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy” recently published the Special Topic on “Low-Carbon Society for a Green Economy”, which is edited by Nay Htun, Yi Jiang, Devinder Mahajan, Dirk Messner , and Richard Templer. This special volume complements the special volume “Energy Pathways to a Low-Carbon…

Taxation and digitalization

Bonn, 01. October 2019

Digitalization should be considered a transformative factor for tax systems worldwide. The use of ICT in economic transactions and tax administrations entails the prospect of addressing tax compliance, evasion, and avoidance in new ways. Increased information could also provide new opportunities for tax policy design. Digitalization could…

Wie soll Entwicklungszusammenarbeit gestaltet werden? Die Globale Partnerschaft und das Development Cooperation Forum

Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel / Timo Casjen Mahn (2014)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 5/2014

Im Kontext der Post-2015 Ziele wird die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit derzeit neu ausgerichtet. Mit der „Busan Partnerschaft“ sowie dem „Development Cooperation Forum“ der Vereinten Nationen bestehen dafür überlappende Plattformen. Welches Forum wird sich als legitim, wirksam und relevant erweisen?

Food security and agriculture

Special "Food security and agriculture for a world without hunger": Food security and agriculture have made a remarkable return to the global agenda. With a world population and incomes increasing, demand for agricultural products is rising. Natural resources – land, water and biodiversity – are under pressure. In addition, new developments such as modern technologies, biofuels or large scale investments in land challenge traditional modes rural development. How can we achieve food security?

Why so nervous?

Fischer, Doris (2011)
The Current Column, 09. May 2011

The European endowment for democracy between wishful thinking and reality: flexible and unbureaucratic?

Leininger, Julia / Solveig Richter (2012)
Briefing Paper 11/2012

Changing state-society relations in MENA

Online, 09. October 2024

Online launch of the special issue ‘ Drivers of change in social contracts in the Middle East and North Africa region ’ In many countries, political, economic and socio-political reforms at best take place piecemeal over long periods of time. This also applies to most countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Many governments…

E-Procurement, Dialogue und Cooperation as Drivers for SPP

Online, 26. October 2020

For the third successive year, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in collaboration with the Service Agency Communities in one World (SKEW) hosts the international Dialogue Forum on Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) from 26 to 28 October 2020. Though Coronavirus forces us to meet up…

Food security in times of crisis: poor developing countries are different

Brüntrup, Michael (2020)
Briefing Paper 9/2020

Until now, the Corona crisis is mainly fought through lockdown measures. In more wealthy countries, these have barely an immediate effect on food security. In poor countries, the situation is different: There, these measures threaten people immediately. The text discusses issues and consequences.

Interaction Between Internal and External Actors in Democracy Promotion

Bonn, 25. March 2015

Among both practitioners and scholars of democracy promotion, there is broad consensus that democracy is not simply a good that can be exported from one country to another. External democracy promotion, by definition, involves a complex sort of interaction between external and local actors that can hardly be grasped by the notion of a…

How does policy coherence shape effectiveness and inequality? Implications for sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda

Browne, Katherine / Adis Dzebo / Gabriela Iacobuţă / Alexia Faus Onbargi / Zoha Shawoo / Ines Dombrowsky / Mathias Fridahl / Sara Gottenhuber / Åsa Persson (2023)
External Publications

Positions of established and emerging powers towards climate finance: the cases of Germany and Korea

Baydag, R. Melis (2024)
External Publications

Trump’s second term and the Global South: prospects and perils

Klingebiel, Stephan / Max-Otto Baumann / Andy Sumner (2024)
External Publications

Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January will have far-reaching implications, not only for the democratic system in the United States but also for global cooperation, particularly impacting the Global South. Here, we offer three reflections on what a Trump second term might mean for these countries.

China and Latin America: a partnership of equals or the one-sided securing of access to raw materials?

von Haldenwang, Christian (2010)
The Current Column, 04. October 2010

The EU’s engagement in the G20: one way to deal with Global power shifts

Dang, Vy / Sven Grimm / Wulf Reiners (2024)
External Publications

International year of sustainable energy for all: who pays the bill?

Ruchser, Matthias / Rebekka Hilz (2012)
The Current Column, 13. February 2012

The global economy is to become greener and fairer with a green economy. Yet the approach is controversial, not least because many developing countries are afraid that an ecological transformation of the economy will mask protectionist restrictions of international trade.

2020

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…