Scholtes, Fabian
Dr. Fabian Scholtes
Department
Inter- and Transnational Cooperation
Function
Former Senior Researcher
Specialization
Economist
Vita
1/2018-9/2018 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Researcher, Research Programme "Inter- and transnational cooperation" |
9/2017-12/2017 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Researcher "Bi- und Multilateral Development Cooperation" |
since 8/2012 | Freelancer Consultant in international development cooperation |
10/2013 - 2/2017 | Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig Lecturer in politics, economy and development in Africa |
6/2009 - 4/2012 | KfW Entwicklungsbank Economist, in charge of research cooperation and organisational analysis |
5/2007 - 5/2009 | Center for Development Research, University of Bonn Senior researcher at Culture, Knowledge and Development departmen |
6/2006 - 11/2006 | Interdepartmental Center for Ethics in Sciences (IZEW), University of Tübingen Researcher in environmental ethics and policies |
10/2004 - 3/2006 | Department of Public Finance and Environmental Policy, University of Tübingen Research assistant |
4/2002 - 9/2004 | Doctoral school Global Challenges - Transnational and Transcultural Approaches, University of Tübingen PhD scholarship by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
Refereed Publications
- Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Fabian Scholtes (2011)
Climate change and everyday life in Toineke Village, West Timor: uncertainties, knowledge and adaptation
in: Sociologus 61 (2), 151-175 - Scholtes, Fabian (2010)
Whose sustainability? Environmental domination and Sen's capability approach
in: Oxford Development Studies 38 (3), 289-307
Non-refereed Publications
- Scholtes, Fabian (2015)
Manual for the analysis of national monitoring and evaluation systems
Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH - Scholtes, Fabian (2012)
Afterthoughts: issues for an anthropology of knowledge and development
in: Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Christoph Antweiler (eds.), Enviromental uncertainty and local knowledge: Southeast Asia as a laboratory of global ecological change, Bielefeld: transcript, 273-280 - Scholtes, Fabian (2011)
Postkoloniale & post-development-Kritik der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Frankfurt am Main: KfW Entwicklungsbank (KfW Development Research, Fokus Entwicklungspolitik 6/2011) - Scholtes, Fabian (2011)
Environmental sustainability in a perspective of the human development and capability approach
Background paper for the Human Development Report 2011 "Sustainability and Equity: a better future for all", Final version, August 9, 2011 - Scholtes, Fabian (2009)
Status Quo and prospects of smallholders in the Brazilian sugarcane and ethanol sector: lessons for development and poverty reduction
Bonn: Center for Development Research /Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), (ZEF Working Paper 43) - Scholtes, Fabian / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2009)
Waiting for the water to come? Climate change and poverty reduction
Bonn: CARE Deutschland-Luxemburg, Center for Development Research (ZEF) - Scholtes, Fabian (2009)
Analysing and explaining power in a capability perspective
Bonn: Center for Development Research /Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), (ZEF Working Paper 37) - Scholtes, Fabian (2009)
How does moral knowledge matter in development practice, and how can it be researched?
Bonn: Center for Development Research /Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), (ZEF Working Paper 40) - Lee-Peuker, Mi-Yong / Olaf Schumann / Fabian Scholtes (Hrsg.) (2007)
Kultur-Ökonomie-Ethik
München: Hampp - Scholtes, Fabian (2007)
Kultur, Ökonomie, Ethik: ein Werkstattbericht
in: Zeitschrift für Entwicklungsethnologie 16 (2), 141-156 - Scholtes, Fabian (2007)
Umweltherrschaft und Freiheit: Naturbewertung im Anschluss an Amartya K. Sen
Bielefeld: transcript - Jens Badura / Lothar Rieth / Fabian Scholtes (Hrsg.) (2005)
"Globalisierung": Problemsphären eines Schlagworts im interdisziplinären Dialog
Wiesbaden: Springer VS - Scholtes, Fabian (2005)
Amartya K. Sens Entwicklungsethik zwischen Universalismus und Relativismus
in: Gerhard Gad / Stefanie Hiss / Thomas Wienhardt (Hrsg.), Wirtschaft, Ethik und Entwicklung - wie passt das zusammen? Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verl., 95-119
Opinion Pieces
Projects
Current Publications

Trump and FfD4 – the Elephant in the Room starts to speak (and destroy)
Hilbrich, Sören / Yabibal Walle / Clara Brandi (2025)

Wer Verantwortung in der Welt übernehmen will, kann Klimapolitik nicht ignorieren
Koch, Svea / Steffen Bauer (2025)

Deutschland hat die Wahl: Im Abseits oder in Führung bei der globalen Klimapolitik
Bauer, Steffen / Clara Brandi (2025)

How phase-out policies strengthen Europe’s automotive industry
Rogge, Karoline / Nicholas Goedeking / Jörn Hoppmann / Hauke Lütkehaus / Adrian Rinscheid / Aline Scherrer / Daniel Rosenbloom / Qi Song (2025)