Home » Press » Press Releases » New Chairs at WBGU New Chairs at WBGU – Climate protection and development policy will be further linked The members of the German Advisory Council on Global Change ( Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen WBGU ) elected Hans Joachim Schellnhuber as the new Chair and Dirk Messner as new Vice Chair on 27 February 2009. Schellnhuber is director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and…
Home » Press » New Book: Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers: new partners or old patterns? New Book: Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers: new partners or old patterns Chaturvedi, Sachin / Thomas Fues / Elizabeth Sidiropoulus (eds.) (2012): Development cooperation and emerging powers: new partners or old patterns? London/New York: ZED Books ISBN: 9781780320632 The new book " Development cooperation and emerging powers: new partners or old patterns? "…
Home » Press » Today, the 48th Graduate Course has started Today, the 48th Graduate Course has started Bonn, 3 September 2012. Since 1965 the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) trains German young professionals in its Postgraduate Training Programme for Development Cooperation . Alumni of the Training Programme are, among others, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Ingrid…
Home » Press » Press Releases » Science Council welcomes positive developments Wissenschaftsrat begrüßt positive Entwicklung des Deutschen Instituts für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Pressemitteilung vom 25.11.2010 In der vom Wissenschaftsrat (WR) im November 2010 verabschiedeten Stellungnahme zur „ Umsetzung der Empfehlungen aus der zurückliegenden Evaluation des Deutschen Instituts für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) “ fällt die Bewertung der Weiterentwicklung des DIE äußerst…
Home » Press » Press Releases » G20 needs inclusive societies and sustainable growth G20 needs inclusive societies and sustainable growth Joint Press Release by Kiel Institute for the World Economy and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) 30 May 2017 International think tanks in the Think20 group (T20) today called upon the twenty largest industrialized and emerging countries (G20)to foster inclusive societies and…
How can the G20 ensure sustained progress on climate protection? How can governments leverage the opportunities of digitalization and mitigate the risks? How can migration and asylum policy challenges be overcome? Leading think tanks from the G20 countries have been grappling with these and other key poli-cy issues facing the 20 largest industrialized and emerging economies (G20) and are now presenting their recommendations to the G20 via the G20-Insights.org internet platform.
Home » Press » Press Releases » G7 veröffentlicht Fortschrittsbericht Biodiversity G7-Elmau-Fortschrittsbericht „Biodiversity – A vital foundation for sustainable development“ veröffentlicht Pressemitteilung vom 22.05.2015 Das Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) hat am 22. Mai 2015 den G7-Elmau-Fortschrittsbericht „ Biodiversity – A vital foundation for sustainable development “ veröffentlicht. Die Erstellung des Berichts, in dem…
Home » Press » Press Releases » Appeal to G8 Appeal to G8: We need an “International Panel on Systemic Risks in the Global Economy” Press Release, 8 July 2009 Today, an international team of researchers under the leadership of Dirk Messner , Director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), published an appeal to the world leaders participating in the G8 summit in L'Aquila in the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau : we…
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Special “Democracy Support and Protection”: Findings from democratization research and advice, what constitutes democracy and why it's worth promoting democratization.
Home » Press » Press Releases » DIE neuer Partner des Bonn Sustainability Portals Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) neuer Partner des Bonn Sustainability Portals Pressemitteilung vom 05.10.2017 Das Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) ist seit dem 1. Oktober assoziierter Partner des Bonn Sustainability Portals. Mit seinem Beitritt zu dem Netzwerk unterstreicht das DIE sein Engagement, Aktivitäten im Bereich nachhaltiger Entwicklung am Standort…
Home » Press » Press Releases » 2015 Global Go To Think Tank Ranking 2015 Global Go To Think Tank Ranking: DIE strengthens its position among international policy shapers Press release, 28 January 2016 Bonn, 28 January 2016. On 27 and 28 January 2016 the annual Global Go To Think Tank Index Report compiled by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the University of Pennsylvania was introduced at several launch events worldwide, e.g. in Washington D.C., Berlin and…
Home » Press » New working paper: Fungibility and the choice of aid modalities New working paper: Fungibility and the choice of aid modalities Leiderer, Stefan: Fungibility and the choice of aid modalities: the red herring revisited UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2012/68 ISBN: 978-92-9230-531-4 The ‘right’ choice of instruments and modalities to provide aid to developing countries in support of poverty reduction and economic development is arguably one of the most contested…