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Human migration in the era of climate change

Cattaneo, Cristina / Michel Beine / Christiane J. Fröhlich / Dominic Kniveton / Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso / Marina Mastrorillo / Katrin Millock / Etienne Piguet / Benjamin Schraven (2019)
Externe Publikationen

With or without you: how the G20 could advance global action towards climate-friendly sustainable development

Bauer, Steffen / Axel Berger / Gabriela Iacobuta (2019)
Briefing Paper 10/2019

G20 represents 80% of global carbon emissions and 80% of global wealth. This briefing paper argues how the club's economic and political weight may be harnessed for ambitious action towards implementing the Paris Agreement and 2030 Agenda in spite of domestic agendas and geopolitical odds.

Dismantling the myth of the growth-inequality trade-off

Negre, Mario / José Cuesta / Ana Revenga / Prescott J. Morley (2019)
Briefing Paper 9/2019

Conventional economic wisdom has long maintained that there is a necessary trade-off between pursuit of the efficiency of a system and any attempts to improve equity between participants within that system. Evidence from recent decades suggests,, however, that the trade-off itself is, in many cases,

Global Climate Action: Bridging Theory and Practice

Bonn, 13. Juni 2019

This event launched the recently published “Political theory and global climate action: recasting the public sphere” by Idil Boran and discussed the role of nonstate and subnational actors in climate action at the interface of research and practice. It was the first in a series of events hosted by the German Development Institute /…

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,…

Economic Development in Africa

Bonn, 04. Juni 2019

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in cooperation with the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) is pleased to announce the Jan Walliser Memorial Lecture. The event took place in memory of Jan Walliser, Vice President of the World Bank’s Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions Global…

Payment for ecosystem services and the water-energy-food nexus: securing resource flows for the affluent?

Rodríguez-de-Francisco, Jean Carlo / Bibiana Duarte-Abadía / Rutgerd Boelens (2019)
Externe Publikationen

Global but not regional? The role of African regional migration regimes in the international governance architecture

Dick, Eva / Benjamin Schraven (2019)
Externe Publikationen

Populism: consequences for global sustainable development

Marschall, Paul / Stephan Klingebiel (2019)
Briefing Paper 8/2019

Populist trends carry significant threats when it comes to dealing with cross-border challeng-es. States with strong populist outlooks can slow down global sustainable development. Conse-quently, countries less affected by such outlooks should take on key roles.

A multilateral framework on investment facilitation

Bonn, 23. Mai 2019

Structured Discussions on a multilateral framework on investment facilitation are underway in the World Trade Organization (WTO), following a Joint Ministerial Statement on Investment Facilitation for Development endorsed by 70 members of the WTO’s 11 th Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires in December 2017. If these discussions should,…

The development policy system under pressure: acknowledging limitations, sourcing advantages and moving towards a broader perspective

Gonsior, Victoria / Stephan Klingebiel (2019)
Discussion Paper 6/2019

This paper presents and discusses the changes within the development policy system over the past decade along three dimensions: narratives, concepts and theories; strategies and institutional set-up and instruments, modalities, tools and activities.

Democracy support and peaceful democratisation after civil war

Mross, Karina (2019)
Briefing Paper 7/2019

External democracy support accompanying democratisation after civil war can help to mitigate destabilising effects and make an important contribution to foster peace. Importantly, post-conflict democracy support does not trigger renewed violence.

EU Democracy Support in Africa in an Era of Uncertainty

Brussels, 30. April 2019

Frontiers in Development Policy: a meetings series sponsored by the European Think-Tanks Group and DEVCO Support for democracy, human rights, and good governance reforms in Africa has become a prominent objective in engagement by EU institutions and EU member states with African countries since the early 1990s. However, after a period of…

Driving transformative Change

Berlin, 30. April 2019

The 2030 Agenda is essential to peace and stability worldwide and is becoming an important point of reference for foreign policymakers. As more knowledge about violent conflict and fragility is produced, the relevance of the SDGs to achieving (re)solutions becomes increasingly clear. The German Federal Foreign Office, SDSN Germany and…

13. Käte Hamburger Dialogue

Berlin, 29. April 2019

The core idea of this event was to reflect ongoing peace operations in Afghanistan and Mali, which are both of high interest for European and German policy. Several thousand soldiers and policemen are seconded to stabilizations missions in both countries. Both missions seem to be located at a crossroads between the substantive interests…

Aid, political conditionality, and other international efforts to support democracy in Africa

Hackenesch, Christine (2019)
Externe Publikationen

The Imperative of Responsibility-Understanding Hans Jonas

Bonn, 25. April 2019

Forty years ago, Hans Jonas’ main writing “The Imperative of Responsibility” was first published (in German: “Das Prinzip Verantwortung”). Starting from moral theory he derives fundamental thoughts about a responsible approach to dealing with new technologies, and mainly - in today’s wording -“disruptive innovations”. Starting point of…

South Africa’s changing role in global development structures: being in them but not always of them

Sidiropoulos, Elizabeth (2019)
Discussion Paper 4/2019

Elizabeth Sidiropoulos explores South Africa’s engagement in global development structures and processes such as the United Nations, the OECD-DAC, and in club governance, as well as its contribution to the evolution of African agency on the issues of global development.

Die EU als globaler Akteur

Bonn, 11. April 2019

Mit den Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament am 26.05.2019 sind Bürgerinnen und Bürger aufgefordert, auch über die Rolle mitzubestimmen, die Europa mit Blick auf eine global nachhaltige Entwicklung einnimmt. Hatte die Europäische Union sich vorwärtsweisend in die Erarbeitung der Nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele (SDG) eingebracht, so ist…

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