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Trump’s trade policy, development cooperation and the Global South

Brandi, Clara (2025)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

What the EU should do for democracy support in Africa: ten proposals for a new strategic initiative in times of polarisation

Hackenesch, Christine / Julia Leininger / Karina Mross (2020)
Discussion Paper 14/2020

This paper reflects on the strategic importance of EU democracy support in sub-Saharan Africa and makes 10 proposals for reform to be better able to address new challenges in a changing global context.

Jump-Starting Developing Countries

Bonn, 22. Januar 2019

Justin Yifu Lin, the former Chief Economist of the World Bank, presented his new books: In his book Beating the Odds: Jump-Starting Developing Countries , Lin argues that developing countries can achieve rapid economic growth even when they lack good infrastructure and institutions. Poor countries should leap directly into the global…

From exclusion to integration: how informal workers can improve urban waste management

Roll, Michael / Hani Abu-Qdais / Tim Kornprobst / Hazem Abu Mukh / Hussein Abu Jabal / Yaser Suleiman (2025)
Policy Brief 29/2025

How can informal workers improve urban waste management? It is crucial to "frontload trust" towards them and "prioritise integration over training". This approach was used to great success by the municipality of Irbid, Jordan, and an informal workers' cooperative, as this policy brief shows.

Bureaucratic pluralism in global development: challenges for Germany and the United States

Lundsgaarde, Erik (2014)
Discussion Paper 16/2014

Taking the role of sector-specific bureaucracies as aid providers in Germany and the United States as a point of departure, this paper reviews funding trends across bureaucracies, examines intragovernmental coordination mechanisms, and reviews organizational reform proposals in the two systems.

Leadership and partnerships for the European Green Deal: EU relations with (re)emerging economies

Grimm, Sven / Niklas Helwig / Wulf Reiners / Marco Siddi (2022)
Externe Publikationen

Enhancing international technology cooperation for climate change mitigation: lessons from an electromobility case study

Bhasin, Shikha (2014)
Discussion Paper 26/2014

As international negotiations face a deadlock of ambition to curb climate change, this paper addresses the scope of bilateral and multilateral technology cooperation in aiding climate change mitigation through a case-study on electromobility as an emerging low-carbon technology sector.

The potential of pro-market activism as a tool for making finance work for Africa: a political economy perspective

Dafe, Florence (2011)
Discussion Paper 2/2011

Under what conditions can government interventions in the financial sector be a successful tool to increase the financial resources available for productive investment in sub-Saharan Africa? This is the question which drives this paper.

Addressing food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa: the role of cash transfers

Burchi, Francesco / Margherita Scarlato / Giorgio d’Agostino (2016)
Discussion Paper 17/2016

The paper offers a systematic review of the evidence of cash transfers’ effects on food security in Africa. It shows that, when properly designed, these schemes increase calorie intake, while they need to be integrated by other programmes to sustainably graduate beneficiaries out of food insecurity

Reconceptualising water management in Khorezm, Uzbekistan

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Lisa Oberkircher / Bernhard Tischbein / Gunther Schorcht / Anik Bhaduri / Usman K. Awan / Ahmad M. Manschadi (2011)
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Ethical food labels in consumer preferences

Bissinger, Katharina / Daniel Leufkens (2017)
Externe Publikationen

(Re)negotiating refugee protection in Malaysia: implications for future policy in refugee management

Munir-Asen, Katrina (2018)
Discussion Paper 29/2018

This case study examines how Malaysia – a country that has not signed the UN Convention for the Protection of Refugees – continues to host multiple waves of refugees. It examines policy measures and their impact on the protection environment with key recommendations for the enhancement of it.

Productivist social assistance and 21st-century development models

Barrientos, Armando / Daniele Malerba (2018)
Externe Publikationen

SDG-aligned futures and the governance of transformation to sustainability: reconsidering governance perspectives on the futures we aspire to

Hernandez, Ariel (2021)
Discussion Paper 30/2021

This paper draws concepts from economics, sociology and political science and identifies the four different types of resources represented in three different scenarios of a sustainable future – the SDG-aligned scenarios - that can help governance be conducive to transformation to sustainability.

Mainstreaming South-South and triangular cooperation: work in progress at the United Nations

Haug, Sebastian (2021)
Discussion Paper 15/2021

This paper shows how the United Nations (UN) has tried to mainstream support for South-South and triangular cooperation (SSTC). It provides a scorecard of UN entities and identifies key factors that condition the heterogeneous and increasingly controversial trajectory of SSTC at the UN.

Green Growth, Degrowth or Postgrowth?

Bonn, 11. Juni 2019

Since the first industrial revolution, economic growth has enabled unprecedented increases in living standards for ever larger global populations. Yet, the current pattern of growth is environmentally unsustainable. Some of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems are about to collapse irreversibly with catastrophic effects on biodiversity,…

Integrated assessment of sustainability trade-offs and pathways for global bioenergy production: framing a novel hybrid approach

Acosta, Lilibeth A. / Wolfgang Lucht / Alberte Bondeau / Tim Beringer (2011)
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A critical review of the IMF’s tools for crisis prevention

Marino, Roberto / Ulrich Volz (2012)
Discussion Paper 4/2012

The European Union’s Global Strategy: making support for democracy and human rights a key priority

Hackenesch, Christine / Clare Castillejo (2016)
Externe Publikationen

The hidden costs of coffee production in the Eastern African value chains

Adong, Annet / Lukas Kornher / Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu / Aslihan Arslan (2024)
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