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Post 2015: an opportunity for social and ecological development

Loewe, Markus / Carmen Richerzhagen (2014)
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Do cows have negative returns? The evidence revisited

Gehrke, Esther / Michael Grimm (2014)
External Publications

TTIP : opportunities and risks for global development

Brandi, Clara / Axel Berger (2014)
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TTIP : Chancen und Risiken für globale Entwicklung

Brandi, Clara / Axel Berger (2014)
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Making global health governance work: recommendations for how to respond to Ebola

Bindenagel Šehović, Annamarie / Stephan Klingebiel (2014)
Briefing Paper 14/2014

The Ebola pandemic is a crisis of global proportion and of global concern. It is locally concentrated, and requires responses on a local scale with a global scope. It is at once a health crisis, with severe economic repercussions, and a threat to peace and security, especially in the region.

Erfahrungen und Perspektiven nachhaltiger Intensivierung der Landwirtschaft in subsaharischen Ländern

Brandt, Hartmut / Michael Brüntrup (2014)
Discussion Paper 30/2014

Die Einführung nachhaltiger Bodennutzungssysteme stößt auf dominierende Liquiditätsengpässe der Landespraxis. Dieses Papier fasst sektorale Hintergrunddaten zusammen, diskutiert nachhaltige Produktionsmethoden, organisatorische Maßnahmen bäuerlichen Kleinkredits und Finanzdienstleistungsentwicklung.

Post-2015: why is the water-energy-land nexus important for the future development agenda?

Brandi, Clara / Carmen Richerzhagen / Katharina M.K. Stepping (2014)
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The Post-2015 Agenda: putting the spotlight on the global economy

Brandi, Clara / Matthias Schoeneberger / Kathrin Berensmann (2014)
External Publications

Annual Report 2013-2014: 50 years of building bridges between research and practice

Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (ed.) (2014)
Books

Kick-starting industrial transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Altenburg, Tilman / Elvis Melia (2014)
External Publications

Green industrial policy: managing transformation under uncertainty

Lütkenhorst, Wilfried / Tilman Altenburg / Anna Pegels / Georgeta Vidican (2014)
Discussion Paper 28/2014

This topical paper elaborates the concept of green industrial policy, framed as a normative approach of managing the green transformation under conditions of uncertainty and long time horizons. It provides illustrative policy examples seeking to stimulate learning from both success and failure.

Germany’s Energiewende – transformation of the energy system

, 10. October 2014

Programme Session 1: Green and Inclusive Energy Systems Georgeta Vidican , Department “Sustainable Economic and Social Development”, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Session 2: The Great Transformation Dirk Messner , Director, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für…

A new partnership between China and Germany in support of international development

Klingebiel, Stephan / Li Xiaoyun (2014)
The Current Column, 09. October 2014

The planned bilateral governmental consultations between China and Germany on 10 October will provide Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Gerd Müller, with an important opportunity to start a new phase of engagement. We argue that this event can be used to design a new development partnership.

Who gets the schools? Political targeting of economic and social infrastructure provision in Zambia

Leiderer, Stefan (2014)
Discussion Paper 27/2014

This paper demonstrates the usability of household data to study political economy features of public finances in developing countries. Taking Zambia as an example, it finds strong and robust evidence for political targeting of public infrastructure provision in line with the core-voter theorem.

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?

Trade, environment protection and the monetary system - international cooperation is key but hard to achieve

Bonn, 30. September 2014

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) invited to the DIE key note with Dr. Heiner Flassbeck on "Trade, environment protection and the monetary system - international cooperation is key but hard to achieve" at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)…

Economic Partnership Agreements: Time is running out

Brandi, Clara / Dominique Bruhn (2014)
The Current Column, 29. September 2014

1 October 2014 is the deadline for the conclusion of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union (EU) and a group of states in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP states). If the agreements are not signed by that date, African countries will fear a deterioration in their conditions for exporting to the EU.

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in Peru: a challenge to social inclusion and multi-level governance

Zelli, Fariborz / Daniela Erler / Sina Frank / Jonas Hein / Hannes Hotz / Anna-Maria Santa Cruz Melgarejo (2014)
Studies 85

The emerging patchwork of REDD processes in Peru implies challenges to social inclusion and coordination. The study analyzes these challenges and discusses policy options, in particular the need for a clear legal and institutional framework that encompasses push and pull factors of deforestation.

Ebola: more than a health challenge!

Julia Leininger (2014)
The Current Column, 24. September 2014

The Ebola crisis in West Africa has assumed catastrophic proportions. The international community of states has reacted too slowly to the Ebola outbreak, which has been known about since March 2013. This also applies to Germany.

Illicit Financial Flows and the post-2015 agenda

Bonn, 23. September 2014

Tax abuse constitutes a massive headwind against development. One common form of it is trade misinvoicing, used by multinational corporations (MNCs) to shift funds to affiliates in other jurisdictions that tax profits at lower rates or not at all. Global Financial Integrity estimates that $4.7 trillion were thus siphoned out of developing…