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An Agenda for Europe in the world

Brussels, 31. Oktober 2019

We were pleased to present to you the European Think Tanks Group’s ‘Agenda for Europe in the World’. The agenda outlines what we think the new EU leadership should focus on when it comes to foreign and development policy. It spells out concrete proposals for action in key areas where the EU can make a difference – ranging from peace and…

Climate Engineering: Buying time to contain global warming?

Bonn, 30. Oktober 2019

Radical de-carbonization can still allow containing atmospheric GHG levels to a degree that may allow keeping global warming to less than +2°C above pre-industrial times, perhaps even below +1.5°C. A growing number of researchers, however, see a clear risk that GHG emissions may not be reduced at the required speed. Climate engineering…

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…

Linking Policies and People: New Insights on Migration and Development

Bonn, 30. Oktober 2019

Numbers of international migrants are at a historic high. While people have always been on the move and the benefits of migration are internationally acknowledged, reaping these benefits through “safe, orderly and regular migration” (SDG 10.7) continues to be a challenge at international, national and local levels. Moreover, the numbers…

Drought challenges: policy options for developing countries

Mapedza, Everisto / Daniel Tsegai / Michael Brüntrup / Robert McLeman (eds.) (2019)
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Achieving policy coherence for drought resilient food security in SSA: lessons from the Horn of Africa

Brüntrup, Michael (2019)
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Drought challenges and policy options: lessons drawn, and the way forward

Tsegai, Daniel / Michael Brüntrup (2019)
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Supporting or thwarting? The influence of EU migration policies on African free movement regimes in West and North-eastern Africa

Castillejo, Clare / Eva Dick / Benjamin Schraven (2019)
Briefing Paper 18/2019

Since 2015, the EU has significantly increased its efforts on preventing irregular migration from Africa. The paper examines the impact of this shift on free movement policies in two African sub-regions and indicates the reasons for significant differences in outcome.

Knowledge for Sustainable Development

Bonn, 23. Oktober 2019

The Global Development Network (GDN) hosted its 19th global development conference on the 23-25 October 2019, to facilitate the research-policy interface in pursuit of the SDGs. The conference also marked GDN's 20th anniversary since its launch at the Global Development Conference in 1999. GDN has kept pace with changes in the development…

Overcoming Conflict and Fragility

Berlin, 23. Oktober 2019

Results of the DIE research project “Supporting Sustainable Peace” and Global Launch of the OECD’s new States of Fragility Online Platform Fragility and conflict pose immense challenges to sustainable development: about half of the world’s extreme poor live in fragile and conflict-affected settings. One reason for this is the persistence…

Digital revolution

Bonn, 16. Oktober 2019

The digital revolution has changed human interaction significantly since the launching of the first personal computer end of the 1970s and the first smartphone in 1996. Today, even in African LDCs, most people have access to a mobile phone, 80% of the world population are using the internet. Around 25 billion devices globally are…

Drought, migration, and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa: what are the links and policy options?

Adaawen, Stephen / Christina Rademacher-Schulz / Benjamin Schraven / Nadine Segadlo (2019)
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Challenges and possible solutions to conducting quantitative surveys with displaced populations

Kuhnt, Jana / Charles Martin-Shields / Ruben Wedel (2019)
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The wise Persons group’s verdict: opportunities and challenges to restructuring the European financial architecture

Kaplan, Lennart / Benedikt Erforth (2019)
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More than money: does climate finance support capacity building?

Stender, Frederik / Ulf Moslener / Willem P. Pauw (2020)
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Investment facilitation and WTO modernisation

Geneva, 11. Oktober 2019

Discussions on investment facilitation, initiated at the 11 th Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Buenos Aires, represent an opportunity both for countries aiming at improving their domestic frameworks to attract investments but also for the World Trade Organization (WTO) itself. While traditional international investment policy…

Central banking, climate change and green finance

Dikau, Simon / Ulrich Volz (2019)
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From networks and platforms to forums: knowledge cooperation in implementing the sustainable development goals (SDGs)

Hernandez, Ariel / Jacqueline Götze (2019)
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Greening structural transformation: what role for industrial hubs?

Altenburg, Tilman / Kasper Vrolijk (2020)
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Global Sustainable Development Report (Brussels)

Brussels, 08. Oktober 2019

Seizing the occasion of the upcoming launch of the Global Sustainable Development Report 2019 (GSDR), the event focused at the role of science as a leverage point for sustainable development in the EU and beyond. The EU is one of the world’s largest funding bodies for science, technology and innovation. Through its framework programmes…