Barcelona and Online, 06. Juli 2021
The panel on the "(Im)possibility of Governing Transformation to Sustainability" aims to bring together academic scholars and policy experts to advance the discourse on the governance of transformation to sustainability (T2S). The (im)possibility of governance of transformation to sustainability is driven by how the related multiple…
Online, 19. Januar 2021
The event focused on the potential value-added of a WTO Investment Facilitation Framework for Development. It is well established that countries seek to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), to advance their economic growth and development. However, since the bulk of any investment facilitation effort is undertaken at the national…
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…
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…
Berlin, 11. Dezember 2008
aSince the financial crisis spilled over from the US and hit Europe with full force in September 2008, the effects of the crisis have become increasingly felt also in developing and emerging countries. Although it remains unclear for the time being how stark the consequences for developing and emerging countries will be, it has become…
Bonn, 08. Juli 2014
For nearly two decades now we have seen increasing consideration of knowledge and learning being at the core of development. However, the chances offered by this new development are not being optimally exploited. Knowledge managers, information managers, facilitators, knowledge brokers, etc. are still more occupied with justifying their…
Bonn, 30. Januar 2014
Public Lecture by Roger Kasperson, Research Professor at Clark University, Worchester/ USA The gap between science and decision making has long been a major concern in risk management. This presentation reports on the project "Vulnerability and Resilience in Science and Practice." This project has expored how knowledge enters into and…
Bonn, 30. April 2009
Veranstaltung im Rahmen des 7th IHDP Open Meeting 2009 Adaptation to climate change is an inevitable challenge, especially in developing countries. Recent calculations have shown that costs of adaptation and corresponding needs for financial support could be of the order of USD 80 billion per year in the next decade – a huge figure when…
Berlin, 20. November 2014
In 2010, the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP) agreed to establish the Green Climate Fund (GCF) as a global investment vehicle for climate finance. At the GCF High-Level Pledging Conference hosted by the German Federal Government on 20 November 2014 in Berlin, governments pledged a total of 9.3 billion USD to the Fund for its initial…
Anik Bhaduri / Claudia Ringler / Ines Dombrowsky / Rabi Mohtar / Waltina Scheumann (eds.) (2017) Buchveröffentlichungen
Stephenson, Sherry / Alexandros Ragoussis / Jimena Sotelo (2016) Discussion Paper 10/2016
What are the implications of a future TiSA agreement for developing countries? This paper highlights relevant issues in the negotiations and identifies potential risks to non-members, while arguing that TiSA can and should be more development-friendly to avoid deeper segregation of services markets
Ehemalige Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Forschungsprogramm "Transformation der Wirtschafts- und Sozialsysteme".
Schmitz, Birgit Direkt zu: Vita Dr. Birgit Schmitz Abteilung Transformation der Wirtschafts- und Sozialsysteme Funktion Ehemalige Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Fachrichtung Ökonomin Vita 10/2011-06/2016 Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin 11/2004-09/2011 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftspolitik (IIW) Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin 01/2010-08/2010 Federal Reserve Bank…
Zintl, Tina / Yannick Sudermann (2021) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 15. März 2021
Während die internationale Gemeinschaft mit der Agenda 2030 darum ringt, niemanden zurückzulassen, betreibt Syriens Machthaber die Exklusion aller (vermeintlich) Andersdenkenden.
Online, 22. Juni 2021
2 nd Workshop on International Research Cooperation of “Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer” (FFVT) Nowadays, partnerships are state of the art in international research projects but underlying motivations often vary between the mere desire to meet funding requirements and the honest pursuit of more…
Guarin, Alejandro / Dirk Messner / Silke Weinlich (2012) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 04. Juni 2012
Köhler-Rahm, Anette (2009) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 02. März 2009
Bonn, 23. September 2014
Tax abuse constitutes a massive headwind against development. One common form of it is trade misinvoicing, used by multinational corporations (MNCs) to shift funds to affiliates in other jurisdictions that tax profits at lower rates or not at all. Global Financial Integrity estimates that $4.7 trillion were thus siphoned out of developing…
Böckenförde, Markus (2010) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 29. November 2010
Pooja Balasubramanian ist Sozioökonomin und ehemalige wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Forschungsprogramms "Transformation der Wirtschafts- und Sozialsysteme".
