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South African Initiative on Voluntary Sustainability Standards

Pretoria, 06. November 2019

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, also referred to as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognizes international trade as an engine for inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction. Standards that uphold not just the quality of products but considers also the sustainability aspects of the production process can be the…

Panel Central America Crisis

Bonn, 31. Oktober 2019

Central America is currently witnessing a series of partly interwoven crises. Modest economic growth rates lead to low growth in income levels. Labor markets do not provide attractive job opportunities for women and men, leading to high youth unemployment rates.These challenges clearly go beyond the economic and social sphere and lead to…

European development policy at the crossfire

Bonn, 30. Oktober 2019

For a long time, EU external action has been considered a field of technocratic, rational-bureaucratic decision-making and closed-door negotiations. In the past few years, however, the characteristics and intensity of political conflict over EU external action have changed, sparking a first wave of studies analyzing the politicization of…

Drought challenges: policy options for developing countries

Mapedza, Everisto / Daniel Tsegai / Michael Brüntrup / Robert McLeman (eds.) (2019)
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The role of institutions and macroprudential policy in managing spillovers from quantitative easing policies

Belke, Ansgar / Ulrich Volz (2019)
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Implicit prices of sustainability on the German online market for honey

Bissinger, Katharina / Roland Herrmann / Lisa Krandick (2019)
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Price fairness: two-stage comparison of conventional and fairtrade prices

Bissinger, Katharina (2019)
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Sign here, please! On developing countries’ market access conditions in regional trade agreements

Stender, Frederik (2019)
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Political economy of command agriculture in Zimbabwe: a state-led contract farming model

Mazwi, Freedom / Abel Chemura / George T. Mudimu / Walter Chambati (2019)
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Labor-intensive public works programs in sub-Saharan Africa: experiences and implications for employment policies

Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu / Joachim von Braun (2019)
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Green finance across the universe

Berensmann, Kathrin / Nannette Lindenberg (2019)
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Governing digital trade – a new role for the WTO

Cheng, Wallace / Clara Brandi (2019)
Briefing Paper 6/2019

Digitalisation is transforming the economy and redefining trade. Using the ongoing debate on the e-commerce moratorium, members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) should make sure that the organisation plays an important role in addressing the future of trade in a digitalised economy.

Investment facilitation for development: a new route to global investment governance

Berger, Axel / Sebastian Gsell / Zoryana Olekseyuk (2019)
Briefing Paper 5/2019

This policy brief provides an overview of the emerging policy debate about investment facilitation. We highlight that four key challenges need to be tackled in order to negotiate an Investment Facilitation Framework (IFF) in the WTO that supports sustainable development

Rwanda makes its own rules

Klingebiel, Stephan (2019)
Die aktuelle Kolumne, 19. März 2019

Kigali is designing a new way to conduct South–South Cooperation, an approach based on Rwanda’s concept of itself as a ‘developmental’ state. A central feature of this is Rwanda’s locally inspired system of concepts for enhancing the development of the country. Home Grown Solutions (HGS) is the umbrella term.

The impact of information and communication technologies on jobs in Africa: a literature review

Melia, Elvis (2019)
Discussion Paper 3/2019

Are mobile phones and the internet generating employment in Sub Saharan Africa? Policy makers tend to bet on it, whereas critical social scientists are more sceptical. This study reviews the available empirical evidence. In short: ICTs create jobs in Africa.

2008

2008 Direkt zu: Archiv 2008 Dezember November Oktober September August Juli Juni Mai April März Februar Januar Archiv 2008 Jan. Feb. März April Mai Juni Juli Aug. Sept. Okt. Nov. Dez. Dezember Weathering the American Contagion DIE-Ökonom Ulrich Volz analysiert die Auswirkungen der weltweiten Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise auf China und diskutiert inwiefern China einen Beitrag zur internationalen Krisenbewältigung leisten kann. Far Eastern Economic Review 28.12.2008…

2019

2019 Direkt zu: Dezember 2019 November 2019 Oktober 2019 September 2019 August 2019 Juli 2019 Juni 2019 Mai 2019 April 2019 März 2019 Februar 2019 Januar 2019 Dezember 2019 „Verkehrssysteme umbauen” Die kommissarische Direktorin des Deutschen Instituts für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Imme Scholz , wünscht sich für 2020 ein verbessertes Klimapaket. Außerdem müssten die Verkehrssysteme umgebaut werden, sagte Scholz im SWR Tagesgespräch. Emissionen müssten viel schneller…

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…

How Brexit affects Least Developed Countries

Olekseyuk, Zoryana / Israel Osorio Rodarte (2019)
Briefing Paper 2/2019

Regardless of the EU-UK deal, developing countries will suffer from Brexit due to the loss of preferences granted by different European treaties. Our simulation results illustrate a need for actions to mitigate the adverse effects on the economically vulnerable countries.

The impact of Egypt-EU free trade agreement on Egypt's manufacturing exports and employment

Helmi, Omneia / Nora Aboushady / Chahir Zaki (2018)
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