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How to map and measure quality of employment?

Bonn and Online, 06. März 2024

Un- and underemployment is one of the most pressing issues in low and middle income countries. At the same time, many of the available jobs are precarious and lack proper working conditions. The MENA region is particularly affected by un- and underemployment, caused by a structural shortage of job creation as well as labour market…

Greening economies in partner countries: priorities for International cooperation

Altenburg, Tilman / Anna Pegels / Mauricio Böhl Gutierrez et al. (2024)
Policy Brief 2/2024

In this brief, we discuss ideas for the support of a just and green structural transformation in BMZ portfolios that are • innovative: they suggest new priorities or new types of policy support and • concrete: they can easily be incorporated into ongoing international cooperation programmes.

Elvis Melia

Elvis Melia war assoziierter Wissenschaftler des Forschunsprogramms "Transformation der Wirtschafts- und Sozialsysteme" am IDOS (ehemals DIE).

Georgeta Auktor

Georgeta Auktor ist Ökonomin und war Assoziierte Wissenschaftlerin am IDOS.

Welche globale Rolle für die EU?

In Zeiten zahlreicher globaler Krisen befindet sich die Europäische Union (EU) am Scheidepunkt. Nach den Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament und dem anschließenden Führungswechsel im Jahr 2024 werden die politischen Entscheidungen, die die EU treffen wird, die Zukunft des europäischen Projekts und die Rolle der EU als globaler Akteur in den kommenden Jahren bestimmen.

Green hydrogen for sustainable industrial development: a policy toolkit for developing countries

Fokeer, Smeeta / Jan Sievernich / Andrea Heredia / Emanuele Bianco / Yury Melnikov / Rita Strohmaier / Almudena Nunez / Andreas Stamm (2023)
Externe Publikationen

The role of the consumer and systemic policy mixes for circular business models in the EU

Fuhrmann-Riebel, Hanna (2024)
Discussion Paper 3/2024

What role do consumers play for the transition to a circular economy (CE) and the development of circular business models (CBMs) in particular? Hanna Fuhrmann-Riebel zooms in on potential consumer barriers to CBM demand and discusses different options for policy making to address those barriers.

Kasper Vrolijk

Kasper Vrolijk ist Ökonom und ehemaliger Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter des Forschungsprogramms "Transformation der Wirtschafts- und Sozialsysteme".

IDOS in den Medien

Das German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) erfährt auch 2023 eine breite Medienaufmerksamkeit, es folgt eine Übersicht der Beiträge.

The Egyptian Industrial Firm Behavior Survey (2020/21)

Amirah El-Haddad (2023)
Forschungsdaten

Turning poo into profit? The troubled politics of a biogas-based sanitation business model in Mozambique

Büscher, Christ (2023)
Externe Publikationen

Improving employment and social cohesion among refugee and host communities through TVET: evidence from an impact assessment in Ethiopia

Getachew, Abis / Lisa Höckel / Jana Kuhnt / Abdirahman A. Muhumad / Armin von Schiller (2023)
Policy Brief 26/2023

Based on an impact assessment, this policy brief gives insight into the effect of an inclusive technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programme implemented by the GIZ on employment and social cohesion outcomes among refugee and host participants in Ethiopia.

Development finance at a turning point: effects and policy recommendations

Berensmann, Kathrin / Sabine Laudage Teles / Christoph Sommer / Yabibal M. Walle (2023)
Discussion Paper 21/2023

The COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the debt crisis, the climate emergency, and other newly emerging crises have adversely affected the macroeconomic environment. This paper dissects the implications for development finance and proposes respective short-term and long-term policy responses.

Relational contracts in the Rwandan coffee chain

Vrolijk, Kasper (2023)
Policy Brief 25/2023

Businesses often engage in long-term relationships with firms and people they trust and know, in which they informally sell and exchange information and services. This Policy Brief documents the relational contracts used in the Rwandan coffee chain using new survey data.

Scaling up green investment in the Global South: strengthening domestic financial resource mobilisation and attracting patient International capital

Volz, Ulrich / Yuen Lo / Vaibhav Mishra (2024)
Externe Publikationen

The implementation of sustainable finance taxonomies: learning from South African experiences

Lötters-Viehof, Steffen / Sören Hilbrich / Kathrin Berensmann / Giovanna Artmann / Sam Ashman / Theresa Herbold / Agnese Monti / Felix Paffhausen / Stephanie Roigk / Lee-Ann Steenkamp (2023)
Policy Brief 20/2023

Embracing sustainable finance taxonomies – potential to facilitate investments in sustainable economic activities. This Policy Brief presents recommendations for a successful introduction of sustainable taxonomies based on research conducted in South Africa.

IDOS@COP28

Dubai, 30. November 2023

The 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which will take place from November 30 to December 12, would be decisive to advance multilateral responses to the climate crisis. IDOS will be active as an observer organisation. We will showcase our research findings at events and analyse progress made on…

China's footprint in Africa

Cissé, Daouda / Karoline Eickhoff / Julia Fath / Christine Hackenesch / Rainer Thiele (2023)
Externe Publikationen

Global Shifts in a Changing World Economy

Online, 28. November 2023

In recent years, major shifts in global markets from North to South have created a new geography of trade and consumption in the agricultural sector. The processes of twenty-first-century globalization are fundamentally changing the politics and governance of agricultural supply chains, with profound implications for the environment and…

The implementation of sustainability taxonomies: the case of South Africa

Hilbrich, Sören / Kathrin Berensmann / Giovanna Artmann / Sam Ashman / Theresa Herbold / Steffen Lötters-Viehof / Agnese Monti / Felix Paffhausen Stephanie Roigk / Lee-Ann Steenkamp (2023)
Discussion Paper 15/2023

Our case study on South Africa’s Green Finance Taxonomy (GFT) investigates challenges associated with the implementation of sustainability taxonomies as they are currently developed in many jurisdictions with the aim to increase transparency and redirect capital flows to sustainable investments.