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Mission impossible? International cooperation in science, technology and innovation for grand challenges

Stamm, Andreas / Aurelia Figueroa (2016)
The Current Column, 04. April 2016

Many of today’s grand challenges are global in scope. Social innovations are needed, concerted efforts across disciplinary fields must be made. Resources must be assembled across borders.

The case for connecting the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Brandi, Clara / Adis Dzebo / Hannah Janetschek (2017)
Briefing Paper 21/2017

This Briefing Paper presents key findings of a fine-grained analysis of how climate actions under the Paris Agreement contribute to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and illustrates the co-benefits that can be attained through join and complementary implementation.

Incentives and rules for fair supply chains

Müngersdorff, Maximilian / Tim Stoffel (2020)
The Current Column, 14. May 2020

The corona crisis is intensifying social ills in many global supply chains. The negative consequences are hitting workers in the producer countries of the global South particularly hard.

Two-speed aid effectiveness

Klingebiel, Stephan / Stefan Leiderer (2011)
The Current Column, 05. December 2011

What explains the uptake of development interventions? Considering the theory of planned behaviour

Kaplan, Lennart C. / Jana Kuhnt / Katharina Richert / Sebastian Vollmer (2019)
External Publications

Cash transfers, food security and resilience in fragile contexts: general evidence and the German experience

Camacho, Luis A. / Merle Kreibaum (2017)
Discussion Paper 9/2017

This paper provides an overview of the evidence on the impact of cash-based interventions (CBIs) on immediate, underlying, and basic causes of food and nutrition security. In particular, their high flexibility to contexts and needs and their ability to link short and long-term outcomes underline that CBIs should be part of every response analysis.

Change, power, and responsibility: emerging powers as new partners for global structural policy

Lätt, Jeanne / Asiye Öztürk (2009)
The Current Column, 09. February 2009

On legitimacy in global governance: concept, criteria, and application

Hilbrich, Sören (2024)
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Priority setting – or rather not? Positive concerns for SDGs

Samanta, Sayan (2016)
The Current Column, 12. September 2016

There is not much leeway to deny that we are living in the Anthropocene – the epoch in which human activity is primarily responsible for the changes in the Earth’s climate and biodiversity.

Progress, prospects and lessons from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Rippin, Nicole (2014)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Addressing food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa: the role of cash transfers

Burchi, Francesco / Margherita Scarlato / Giorgio d’Agostino (2016)
Discussion Paper 17/2016

The paper offers a systematic review of the evidence of cash transfers’ effects on food security in Africa. It shows that, when properly designed, these schemes increase calorie intake, while they need to be integrated by other programmes to sustainably graduate beneficiaries out of food insecurity

Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz in Berlin

Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz in Berlin Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz in Berlin Press Release of 9 March 2009 As a consequence of the world financial crisis, the President of the UN General Assembly established the UN-Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System in the fall of 2008. The Commission is chaired by Joseph Stiglitz, the 2001-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. In the run-up to the second meeting…

Allocating the next European Development Fund for ACP countries

Negre, Mario (2013)
The Current Column, 06. December 2013

The European Development Fund (EDF) is the key instrument for the implementation the European Agenda for Change vis-à-vis Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP).

Governance for the integrated implementation of the 2030 Agenda

The 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change set ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), requires a deeper understanding of synergies and conflicts.

Averting Water Wars in Asia

Bonn, 25. June 2014

The sharpening Asian competition over energy resources, especially in the South and East China Seas, has obscured another danger: water shortages in much of Asia are becoming a threat to rapid economic modernization and peace. Water has emerged as a key security issue that could determine if Asia is headed toward cooperation or…

Whose policy coherence counts? Assessing sustainable fisheries in Ghana and the European Union's engagement

Keijzer, Niels / Lina Galvis / Sarah Delputte (2023)
External Publications

Sub-Saharan Africa and G20 Responses to the Global Financial Crisis

Bonn, 31. August 2011

The third Public Lecture of the ninth course of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) programme was delivered by Peter per, Senior Research Fellow, South African Institute of International Affairs, SAIIA who talked about “Sub-Saharan Africa and G20 Responses to the Global Financial Crisis” and the impact of the global financial crisis on…

Regional migration governance: contributions to a sustainable international migration architecture

Dick, Eva / Anne Koch / Benjamin Schraven / Benjamin Etzold (2018)
Briefing Paper 1/2018

The global migration governance is in a period of transition. Although most cross-border migration and displacement takes place within regions of the Global South, the important contribution of regional organisations to the cooperation on migration and displacement is not sufficiently recognised.

How physical and social factors affect village-level irrigation: an institutional analysis of water governance in northern China

Wang, Xiaoxi / M. Ilona Otto / Lu Yu (2013)
External Publications

Interactive Business Dinner Berlin

Berlin, 30. May 2017

In the context of this year’s spring meeting of the SDSN Leadership Council and the T20 Summit , SDSN Germany together with the European Business Ethics Network Deutschland & 2°Foundation welcomed more than 80 guests to an interactive business dinner on May 30th in Berlin. The event brought together members of the SDSN Leadership Council…