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A review of the literature on well-being in Italy: a human development perspective

Burchi, Francesco / Chiara Gnesi (2016)
Externe Publikationen

Which dimensions should matter for capabilities?A constitutional approach

Burchi, Francesco / Pasquale De Muro / Eszter Kollar (2014)
Externe Publikationen

World Water Day on Water and Energy: The Nexus and beyond

Bonn, 20. März 2014

At this Water Lecture, a panel of high-level experts from International Organizations, Policy think tanks and the academia discussed the various links between water and energy as well as potential challenges and opportunities of the interface between water and energy at different levels and settings. The emphasis of this panel discussion…

Dams and norms: current practices and the state of the debate

Scheumann, Waltina / Oliver Hensengerth (2014)
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Evolution of dam policies: evidence from the big hydropower states

Scheumann, Waltina / Oliver Hensengerth (eds.) (2014)
Buchveröffentlichungen

The reflection of African concerns in the G-20 financial regulation and financial development agenda

Wolff, Peter (2014)
Externe Publikationen

The G-20 and financial regulation in Africa

Wolff, Peter (2013)
Externe Publikationen

Africa-EU Summit: Stronger Political Orientation and Sharper Focus Needed

Lundsgaarde, Erik / Svea Koch / Julia Leininger (2014)
Die aktuelle Kolumne, 31. März 2014

On 2 and 3 April 2014, African and EU Heads of State and Government will meet in Brussels to take stock of achievements in Africa-EU cooperation and to outline priorities for future cooperation.

Shaping the architecture of global development cooperation

Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel / Timo Casjen Mahn (2014)
Externe Publikationen

When do disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programmes succeed?

Banholzer, Lilli (2014)
Discussion Paper 8/2014

Determining how to effectively demobilize and reintegrate combatants is essential for the peace process. This paper provides a synthesis of what current research can tell us about the factors maximizing chances for the successful implementation of demobilization and reintegration programs.

Transformation of a policy area: development policy is in a systemic crisis and faces the challenge of a more complex system environment

Ashoff, Guido / Stephan Klingebiel (2014)
Discussion Paper 9/2014

Since the early 2000s, the development policy community has come to acknowledge two issues. (1) The aid system is in crisis; attempts are being made to reform the system. (2) The system environment in which development policy is being pursued has undergone considerable change.

Presenting results in development cooperation: risks and limitations

Holzapfel, Sarah (2014)
Briefing Paper 4/2014

At a time of global economic crisis, donor agencies are under increasing pressure to provide evidence of the positive results of their work. This paper analyses the limitations and risks of using standard indicators to report on aggregate outputs and outcomes of interventions at agency level.

Understanding regime support in new and old democracies: the role of performance and democratic experience

Camacho, Luis A. (2014)
Discussion Paper 10/2014

To what extent does performance shape public support for democracy? This paper shows that economic performance is more important in new than in old democracies. In contrast, political performance is equally important in both contexts.

Technological pathways to low carbon: Competition and collaboration between Europe and emerging Asia

Bonn, 07. April 2014

This was the final conference of an international research project " Technological trajectories for low carbon development in China, Europe and India ", generously funded by the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond under a joint call with Volkswagen Foundation and Compagnia de San Paolo. The project was jointly carried out by a team of 15…

Frictions between Global Configurations and National Negotiations

Berlin, 10. April 2014

Latin America is historically one of the most unequal regions in the world. In addition to their historical persistence, social inequalities in Latin America are characterized by being heavily influenced by global processes. Interdependencies with world markets, international legal structures and practices as well as sectoral policies…

The Rise of Informal Summitry: Implications for Global Governance

Duisburg, 15. April 2014

In the 8th Käte Hamburger Lecture, Andrew Cooper examined the rise of pivotal informal summitry/organisations, above all the G20 and the BRICS, and the implications of this phenomenon for global governance. At a basic level informal organisations differ from the formal institutions such as the UN and the IMF in a number of key ways:…

The post-2015 agenda: The role of Social Protection

Bonn, 15. April 2014

Social protection has significantly gained prominence in the international development debate. It is a key tool for the eradication of poverty, for the reduction of vulnerability and for the limitation of rising income inequality. Apart from this, however, social protection also has an economic and a political function: Its pure existence…

South-South Cooperation and the Post-2015 Agenda for Global Development

Mexico City, 16. April 2014

First High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation The event covered mainly two aspects of the topic in the following two sections. 1. The first section focused on “Mutual Accountability and South-South Cooperation in the Post-2015 Agenda”. In the post-2015 debate, global accountability features…

Making energy efficiency pro-poor: insights from behavioural economics for policy design

Never, Babette (2014)
Discussion Paper 11/2014

This paper reviews the current state of the art in behavioural economics and its applications to energy efficiency in developing countries. Taking energy efficient lighting in Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda as examples, it develops hypotheses on how behavioural factors can improve energy policy design.

The formation of a new technological trajectory of electric propulsion in the French automobile industry

Schamp, Eike W. (2014)
Discussion Paper 12/2014

Low carbon policies have initiated a new race for hybrid and battery electric propulsion technologies for vehicles. Forming a new technological trajectory that will become sustainable is a societal process. What can we learn from France, Europe’s current leader in electromobility?