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Shaping equitable partnerships in international collaborative research

Flaig, Merlin / Detlef Müller-Mahn (2024)
The Current Column, 23. September 2024

Equitable partnerships must be established as standard requirement for international collaborative research and for applications for international funding lines.

Job Advertisement: Researcher (f/m/diverse) Social Protection Policies

IDOS Department “Transformation of Economic and Social Systems” is looking for a Researcher as part of the research project “Fostering resilience through Health and Social Protection policies in times of multiple crises”

Footprint methodologies and their role in policy development and communication

Bonn, 21. January 2019

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a holistic view of sustainable development, including targets on all its three dimensions: environmental, economic and social. Moreover, these goals are universal and apply to all countries, high- and low- income ones. This means that it is crucial to implement the SDGs in an integrated…

Subsidy reform and the transformation of social contracts: the cases of Egypt, Iran and Morocco

Vidican Auktor, Georgeta / Markus Loewe (2022)
External Publications

Emerging economies in the post-2015 negotiations: how their positioning will shape the new agenda

Hackenesch, Christine / Heiner Janus (2014)
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COVID-19: how can the G20 address debt distress in SSA?

Berensmann, Kathrin / Hopestone Kayiska Chavula / Austin Chiumia / Mma Amara Ekeruche / Njuguna Ndung'u / Aloysius Ordu / Lemma W. Senbet / Abebe Shimeles (2021)
External Publications

Biodiesel in India: value chain organisation and policy options for rural development

Altenburg, Tilman / Hildegard Dietz / Matthias Hahl / Nikos Nikolidakis / Christ (2009)
Studies 43

The Ongoing Reform of the World Bank

Walle, Yabibal M. / Clara Brandi (2023)
The Current Column, 02. October 2023

Shareholders must make a substantial commitment to increase the lending capacity of the World Bank far beyond the $50 billion over the next ten years that was committed during the Spring Meetings.

Turkish G20 Presidency: The Role of Think Tanks

Berlin, 09. December 2015

On 9 December 2015 the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) convened a panel discussion in the Turkish Embassy in Berlin on the role of think tanks during the Turkish G20 Presidency. The participants from the Federal Chancellery,…

Inequality and social cohesion in Africa: theoretical insights and an exploratory empirical investigation

Burchi, Francesco / Gabriela Zapata-Román (2022)
Discussion Paper 16/2022

Is inequality bad for social cohesion? Based on theory and limited evidence from Europe and Asia, this seems the case. Also our analysis on Africa finds a negative relationship between inequality and social cohesion, but this is not strong and valid only for the horizontal aspect of social cohesion.

Unrequited love: What is the legacy of the first Global Partnership summit?

Fues, Thomas / Stephan Klingebiel (2014)
The Current Column, 17. April 2014

The Mexican government has hosted the most important conference on development co-operation (DC) issues since the Busan meeting at the end of 2011.

For liberal values, planetary interests and a common future

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (2025)
The Current Column, 21. January 2025

Targeted measures to expand partnerships are needed all the more urgently – not ‘despite everything’ but in fact now more than ever.

G20 support for SDGs

Berensmann, Kathrin (2016)
External Publications

Drivers of change in social contracts: building a conceptual framework

Loewe, Markus / Amirah El-Haddad / Mark Furness / Annabelle Houdret / Tina Zintl (2024)
External Publications

The MENA Region in the “Zeitenwende” Era: An Opportunity for Socially Just Transition?

Berlin, 24. January 2023

The event brought together political decision makers and experts from Germany and the region to debate the following questions: How does Germany plan to link the just transition concept with its new cooperation priorities, such as green energy and feminist development policy, in the MENA region? How have the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…

State fragility, social contracts and the role of social protection: perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

Loewe, Markus / Tina Zintl (2021)
External Publications

Social protection schemes in the Middle East and North Africa: not fair, not efficient, not effective

Loewe, Markus (2019)
External Publications

Water and Development in Shared Rivers: Sustainable development for all

Tawfik, Rawia (2015)
The Current Column, 19. March 2015

Bonn, 19 March 2015. This year the United Nations selected “Water and Sustainable Development” as a theme for the World Water Day on 22 March. The World Water Day reminds us that there is no human, social and economic development without clean water – from health and sanitation to food, energy production and industrialisation.

Press release: Prosperous but not healthy? Healthy living on a healthy planet

Healthy living on a healthy planet’ – this is the title and vision of the WBGU’s new flagship report, which will be presented today to Steffi Lemke, Germany’s Federal Environment Minister, and Judith Pirscher, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

The Road to an Equitable Pandemic Agreement

Strupat, Christoph / Remco van de Pas (2024)
The Current Column, 07. May 2024

Failing to secure an equitable pandemic agreement could lead to considerable public health risks, great economic costs and would harm trust in global health institutions.