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Digitalization and forced displacement: how addressing access, online behaviour, and privacy issues can lead to better digital solutions

Martin-Shields, Charles (2020)
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Protest potentials in post-COVID Mena

Online, 06. Oktober 2020

In the months prior to the Covid-19 crisis , mass protests in Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon and Sudan seemed to foreshadow a second Arab Spring. Persistent inequality and a series of events that visibilised the rampant state corruption had sparked widespread protests across the region. These protests demonstrated how a generation of young people…

The trade effects of environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements

Berger, Axel / Clara Brandi / Jean-Frédéric Morin / Jakob Schwab (2020)
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What can we learn from regional initiatives on investment facilitation

Online, 05. Oktober 2020

This is the fifth of a webinar series on investment facilitation for development, held in the framework of a joint ITC/DIE project on Investment Facilitation for Development. The webinar will be conducted in an interactive manner and allow for questions by participants. The emergence of regional initiatives such as the MERCOSUR Protocol,…

Dealing with interlinkages: a focused approach for implementing the SDGs and overcoming the COVID-19 crisis

Scholz, Imme / Adolf Kloke-Lesch / Robert Lepenies / Alex Goday-Faúndez / Felix Moronta Barrios / Anet Režek Jambrak / Armand Ketcha Malan Kablan / Tolu Oni / Moritz Riede / Yoko Shimpuku / Teresa Stoepler (2020)
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Christina Rademacher-Schulz

Christina Rademacher-Schulz ist Ethnologin und ehemalige Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Forschungsprogramms "Transformation politischer (Un-)Ordnung: Institutionen, Werte und Frieden".

Mario Negre

Mario Negre ist Ökonom und ehemaliger Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter des Forschungsprogramms "Transformation der Wirtschafts- und Sozialsysteme".

Lukas Frucht

Lukas Frucht ist Geograph und ehemaliger Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter des Forschungsprogramms "Transformation politischer (Un-)Ordnung: Institutionen, Werte und Frieden".

The transition towards a green economy and its implications for quality infrastructure

, 30. September 2020

The transition towards a green economy has become an urgent need. It implies accelerated diffusion of manifold green technologies, which in turn generates opportunities for domestic value creation in terms of learning, localization of supply chains, and employment. A pre-condition for the effective development and diffusion of green…

The transition towards a green economy and its implications for quality infrastructure

Vidican Auktor, Georgeta / Tilman Altenburg / Andreas Stamm (2020)
Studies 102

This study contributes to understanding the essential link between quality infrastructure (QI) and an effective transition towards a green economy. It explores green technologies diffusion in developing countries and what QI investments are needed to support, and benefit from, this green transition.

A post-COVID social contract for the MENA region?

Online, 29. September 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has endangered fragile social contracts across the MENA region . The sharp economic downturn caused by the pandemic has reduced state revenues and had severe impacts on both formal and informal economic sectors. The demand for social protection has increased just as governments’ abilities to deliver has been…

Financial market and capital flow dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic

Beirne, John / Nuobu Renzhi / Eric Sugandi / Ulrich Volz (2020)
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Safety first: expanding the global financial safety net in response to COVID-19

Gallagher, Kevin P. / Haihong Gao / William N. Kring / José Antonio Ocampo / Ulrich Volz (2020)
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Special drawing rights: international monetary support for developing countries in times of the COVID-19 crisis

Gallagher, Kevin P. / José Antonio Ocampo / Ulrich Volz (2020)
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How the G7 reviews its work on development: a case study of internal accountability

Fischer, Roger A. (2020)
Discussion Paper 19/2020

This paper suggests ways to improve G7 accountability practice so that it better capture learning effects. Better designed commitments and improved follow up would also support G7 legitimacy, because this would make it easier for external stakeholders to check G7 action against its words.

Pathways towards sustainable public procurement: success factors drawn from pioneering municipalities in Germany and Europe

Müngersdorff, Maximilian / Tim Stoffel (2020)
Externe Publikationen

Through their purchasing activities, municipalities have a powerful lever at their disposal for promoting fair working and living conditions. Applied consistently, socially responsible procurement by municipalities can contribute significantly to implementing the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Implementation Challenges for a Multilateral Framework on Investment Facilitation for Development

Online, 23. September 2020

This was the 3rd Virtual Capacity Building Workshop: Implementation Challenges for a Multilateral Framework on Investment Facilitation for Development organised in the framework of the Investment Facilitation for Development project, jointly implemented by the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the German Development Institute/Deutsches…

The COVID-19 crisis: Nail in the coffin or shot in the arm for a sustainable global migration regime?

Online, 23. September 2020

The 2030 Agenda and the Global Compacts for Migration and on Refugees, agreed upon in 2018, have emphasized the need for a comprehensive and cooperative approach to human mobility at the global level . Against this background, bilateral aid agencies and international organisations are directing significant resources toward supporting…

Contested mobility

Online, 23. September 2020

Global migration policies, formulated at international and national levels, play a significant role in the quality of life and opportunities for migrants and displaced people . Our new project ‘Contested mobility‘: Migration policy in countries of the Global South between local needs, national interests and global agendas , funded by the…

International cooperation and socio-economic justice in a post-Covid19 MENA region

Online, 22. September 2020

The Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) are co-organising a series of online debates in the Autumn of 2020. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the question of how international partners can best support MENA countries and the region as a whole in addressing…