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The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) is a think tank for German development policy. The DIE Discussion Papers describe in detail current issues and results from the research and consulting of the DIE. The current issues are available in German or English.

Publishers: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Publications: Towers of Strength in Turbulent Times?
Revisiting Hydro-hegemony from a Benefit-sharing Perspective
The Fragile Road towards Peace and Democracy
Big Results Now? Emerging Lessons from Results-based Aid in Tanzania
Improving Education Outcomes by Linking Payments to Results
In Search of a Narrative for Southern Providers
Can Supply Chain Initiatives Reduce Deforestation?
A Cartography of the New Middle Classes in Developing and Emerging Countries
The Role of International Financial Institutions in Macroeconomic Crises
Erfahrungen und Perspektiven nachhaltiger Intensivierung der Landwirtschaft in subsaharischen Ländern
Do Preferential Trade Agreements Increase Their Members' Foreign Direct Investment?
A Global Framework for Climate Action (GFCA)
The Innovation Path of the Chinese Wind Power Industry
Boosting or Hindering Aid Effectiveness? An Assessment of Systems for Measuring Agency Results
From Combustion Engines to Electric Vehicles
Green Industrial Policy: Managing Transformation under Uncertainty
Who Gets the Schools? Political Targeting of Economic and Social Infrastructure Provision in Zambia
Enhancing International Technology Cooperation for Climate Change Mitigation
Linking Results-based Aid and Capacity Development Support
Foreign Aid and the Domestic Politics of European Budget Support
Reforming the Hand that Feeds You? Managing Capacity Development Support
Managing Diversity: What Does It Mean?
Knowledge for Development
Innovation Paths in Wind Power
Bureaucratic Pluralism in Global Development
Turkey as a Donor Country and Potential Partner in Triangular Cooperation
International Cooperation and Development
The Formation of a New Technological Trajectory of Electric Propulsion in the French Automobile Industry
Making Energy Efficiency Pro-Poor
Understanding Regime Support in New and Old Democracies
Transformation of a Policy Area
When Do Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Programmes Succeed?
The Governance of Scientific Assessment in the Context of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Different Perspectives on Differentiated Responsibilities
Let’s Get Comprehensive: European Union Engagement in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries
Public Instruments to Leverage Private Capital for Green Investments in Developing Countries
Real Innovation or Second-Best Solution
Promoting Democracy: What Role for the Democratic Emerging Powers?
Die Türkei als neues Geberland und potenzieller Partner in Dreieckskooperationen
Challenges in Measuring the State of the Environment in Developing Countries
Towards Renewal or Oblivion?
150 Years of Boom and Bust - What Drives Mineral Commodity Prices?
Mozambique's Economic Transformation
Innovations in Governance
Struggling for Stability
Common Goals and Differential Commitments
Contributing to Democratic Consolidation and Sustainable Peace in El Salvador and the Philippines
Women's Political Role and Poverty in the Educational Dimension
A Resolution for a Quiet Revolution
Which Factors Determine the Upgrading of Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises?
Macroprudential Financial Market Regulation
Multilateral Aid
Beyond Aid
Unfinished Agenda or Overtaken by Events?
Bureaucratic Pluralism and the Transformation of Development Cooperation
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Upgrading in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Les Modèles d'Organisation des Filières Cotonnières et leur Incidence sur la Productivité et sur le Revenu de l'Agriculture
Industrial Policy in Egypt 2004–2011
Exploring the Effectiveness of Local Content Requirements in Promoting Solar PV Manufacturing in India
With or Without Force? European Public Opinion on Democracy Promotion
Foreign Aid and the Fragile Consensus on State Fragility
Investment Rules in Chinese Preferential Trade and Investment Agreements
Results-based Financing
Cotton Sector Organisation Models and their Impact on Farmer’s Productivity and Income
Global Public Goods: A Concept for Framing the Post-2015 Agenda?
Effectiveness of Democracy-Support in "Fragile States"
Revenue Structures and the Question of Who Pays Taxes
China's Impact on the Global Wind Power Industry
The Need and Scope for Strengthening Co-operation Between Regional Financing Arrangements and the IMF
Results-Based Aid (RBA)
From Poverty Reduction to Mutual Interests?
Rent Management and Policy Learning in Green Technology Development
Short-term Effects of the Global Economic and Financial Crisis on Household in Three Developing Countries
The Role of Social Media in Mobilizing Political Protest
Promoting Renewable Electricity Generation in Emerging Economies
How to Evaluate Budget Support Conditionality and Policy Dialogue
German Aid Allocation and Partner Country Selection
Benefit-Sharing in Dam Projects on Shared Rivers
Poverty, Politics and Local Diffusion
A Critical Review of the IMF's Tools for Crisis Prevention
State Fragility: Towards a Multi-Dimensional Empirical Typology
The Politics of Central Banking and Implications for Regulatory Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa
Municipal Tax Base in Mozambique: High Potential – Low Degree of Utilisation
Sürdürülebilir Baraj Yapımı için Çevresel Korumanın Önemi
Mercy and the Structures of the World
The End of GATT-WTO History?
Donor Transparency and Aid Allocation
Industrial Policy in Mozambique
Can Micro-Insurance Cover Natural Risks?
Predicting Social Tipping Points
Micro-Methods in Evaluating Governance Interventions
Adapting Agricultural Water Governance to Climate Change
Promoting Gender Equality in Responses to Climate Change
Industrial Policy in Developing Countries
Interaction of Chinese Institutions with Host Governments in Dam Construction
The Potential of Pro-Market Activism as a Tool for Making Finance Work for Africa
Industrial Policy in Tunisia
Assessing the Tax Performance of Developing Countries
Science and Technology for Development
The Europeanisation of Development Policy
Intellectual Property Rights as a Challenge to Providing Global Public Goods
The Impact of Chinese Outward Investment
The European External Action Service
Sustainable Dam Development in Brazil
Regional Financing Arrangements and the Stability of the International Monetary System
The DESERTEC Initiative
Sustainable Dam Development in India
Counting CO² Emissions in a Globalised World
The Role of South African FDI in Southern Africa
Let the Good Times Roll?
Consolidation or Cooperation: The Future of EU Development Cooperation
Industrial Policy in Namibia
Sustainable Dam Development in China Between Global Norms and Local Practices
Introducing Catchment Management
Industrial Policy in Ethiopia
How to Prevent and Resolve Debt Crises in LICs?
Climate Change, Vulnerability, and Adaptation in Sub-Saharan African Cities
Climate Change Adaptation from a Gender Perspective
Prospects for Renewable Energy in South Africa
A Leaner, Meaner Guardian?
Sustainability-oriented Innovation Systems
International Division of Labour - Towards a Criteria-led Process
Regional Trade-FDI-Poverty Alleviation Linkages
Herkunft der ODA-Mittel, der Einzelplan 23 und das BMZ
China and the EU's Engagement in Africa
Hans Singer's Legacy
Deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit Ägypten
NEPAD Initiatives and their Repercussions on Agricultural Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Is There Demand for Formality Among Informal Firms?
SAARC: Changing Realities, Opportunities and Challenges
The Domestic Context of Turkey's Changing Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East and the Caspian Region
Country Classifications for a Changing World
Global Energy and Environmental Scenarios
Transfer Pricing, Tax Havens and Global Governance
Think Big! Future Prospects of the International Summit Architecture – the G20, G8, G5 and the Heiligendamm Dialogue Process
Der innenpolitische Kontext des außenpolitischen Wandels der Türkei
REDD From an Integrated Perspective
Climate Change Impact on Sub-Saharan Africa?
Kommunale Entwicklungspolitik in Deutschland
The Returns on Public Investment
The Impact of Russia on Governance Structures in Ukraine
Framing Adaptation to Climate Change: A Challenge for Building Institutions
Personalentwicklungsbedarf in der nationalen und internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Dutch Disease: Ökonomische Prozesse und Implikationen für die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Neuausrichtung der Entwicklungspolitik der Bundesländer vor dem Hintergrund der veränderten internationalen Rahmenbedingungen
From Chaos to Pragmatism? The Domestic Dimension of Russian Foreign Policy 1991–2008
Developing Regional Financial Markets – The Case of East Asia
Development Studies – Development Research
Gender Differentiated Impact of Investment Climate Reforms
China's and India's Emerging Energy Foreign Policy
The Impact of China on Governance Structures in Vietnam
Poor and Powerful: The Rise of China and India and the Implications for Europe
Der Einfluss Indiens auf Regierungsstrukturen in Pakistan und Bangladesch
Reforms in the EU's Aid Architecture and Management
China and the Global Governance of Foreign Direct Investment
The EU's Central Asia Policy and its Implications for China
The Future of the Multilateral Trading System in a Multi-Polar World
The DAC as a Central Actor in Development Policy Issues
The Millennium Development Goals: Chances and Risks
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit Pakistan: Eine Analyse aus der Ankerperspektive
Innenpolitischer Wandel und seine Auswirkungen auf die Aussenpolitik Chinas
Donor Support for Tax Administration Reform in Africa
International Relations in 2030: The Transformative Power of Large Developing Countries
Taxation, Social Cohesion and Fiscal Decentralization in Latin America
Different Opportunities, Different Outcomes - Civil War and Rebel Groups in Angola and Mozambique
China's Capacities for Mitigating Climate Change
EU-China-Africa Trilateral Development Cooperation
Organizational Challenges for an Effective Aid Architecture
Multilateral Organisations Performance Assessment
Global Governance and Developing Countries
Does International Democracy Promotion Work?
Die Rolle Brasiliens in der globalen Strukturpolitik
Die Rolle Mexikos in der globalen Strukturpolitik
Perspectives for Germany's Scientific-Technological Cooperation with Subsaharan Africa
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit Nigeria
Towards a Division of Labour in European Development Co-operation
Insolvenzrecht für Staaten
Negotiating in Practice What is Non-Negotiable in Principle: Development Policy and Armed Non-State Actors
Wie wirksam sind neue Modalitäten in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit?
Towards a Division of Labour in European Development Cooperation
Debt Swaps: An Appropriate Instrument for Development Policy?
Africa Agenda for 2007
Creating an Enabling Business Environment in Asia
China's Significance in International Politics
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Gesamtkontext der Deutsch-Brasilianischen Kooperation
Perspektiven für die wissenschaftlich-technologische Zusammenarbeit Deutschlands mit Subsahara-Afrika
Rethinking Protection for Agricultural Markets in Subsaharan Africa
Möglichkeiten und Grenzen entwicklungspolitischer Dreieckskooperationen mit Ankerländer
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Gesamtkontext der Deutsch-Südafrikanischen Kooperation
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Gesamtkontext der Deutsch-Indischen Kooperation
Are More Democratic Donor Countries More Development Oriented?
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Gesamtkontext der Deutsch-Chinesischen Kooperation
Everything But Arms (EBA) and the EU-Sugar Market Reform - Development Gift or Trojan Horse?
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Gesamtkontext der Deutsch-Mexikanischen Kooperation
Development Effectiveness at the Country Level
The Role of South Africa in Global Structural Policy
Massnahmen zur Stärkung von Sozial verantwortlichem Investieren (SRI)
Durch einen Big Push aus der Armutsfalle?
Strengthening Internal Accountability in the Context of Programme-based Approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa
A Proposal for a New International Debt Framework (IDF) for the Prevention and Resolution of Debt Crisis in Middle-Income Countries
Identifying Financial Constraints under Trade Liberalization
How much Weight for Military Capabilities? Africa's New Peace and Security Architecture and the Role of External Actors
Die Millennium Development Goals: Hintergrund, Bedeutung und Bewertung aus Sicht der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Finanzierung internationaler Zusammenarbeit in der deutschen Aussen- und Sicherheits-, Entwicklungs- und Umweltpolitik
Empfehlungen zur strategischen Orientierung der EZ im grenzüberschreitenden Gewässermanagement in Afrika
Kooperation an Afrikas internationalen Gewässern: Die Bedeutung des Informationsaustauschs
How Can International Donors Promote Transboundary Water Management?
Afrikas internationale Flüsse und Seen: Stand und Erfahrungen im grenzüberschreitenden Wassermanagement in Afrika an ausgewählten Beispielen
Kooperation an internationalen Flüssen aus ökonomischer Perspektive: Das Konzept des Benefit Sharing
Strengthening the Development Impact of UNCTAD’s Investment Policy Reviews
Empfehlungen zur zukünftigen strategischen Orientierung der deutschen EZ im Wasser- und Bewässerungssektor
Programme Financing and Public Budgets
A Forest Convention - Yes or No?
Entwicklungspolitische Handlungsfelder im Kontext erodierender Staatlichkeit in Subsahara-Afrika
Towards a More Effective Provision of Business Services
Europe's New Security Strategy
Schwellen- und Ankerländer als Akteure einer globalen Partnerschaft
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