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4/2013: Post 2015: reconsidering sustainable development goals; is the environment merely a dimension?

Frederick Boltz, Will R. Turner, Frank Wugt Larsen, Imme Scholz and Alejandro Guarin

3/2013: Post 2015: why is the water-energy-land nexus important for the future development agenda?

Clara Brandi, Carmen Richerzhagen and Katharina Stepping

2/2013: From poverty reduction to mutual interests? The debate on differentiation in EU development policy

Svea Koch

1/2013: Post 2015: what can be learnt from the impact of health performance on donor policies for health assistance?

Katharina Stepping

19/2012: History repeats? The rise of the new middle classes in the developing world

Mark Furness, Imme Scholz and Alejandro Guarín

18/2012: Post 2015: how to reconcile the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

Markus Loewe

17/2012: Options for improving the communication of seasonal rainfall forecasts to smallholder farmers: the case of Kenya

Parita Shah, Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Romanus Opiyo and Joshua Ngaina

16/2012: Agriculture in the international climate negotiations: supporting sustainable development or just dubious emission reductions?

Marcus Kaplan

15/2012: Environmental change and migration: perspectives for future action

Benjamin Schraven

14/2012: Can the EU confront inequality in developing countries?

Mark Furness and Mario Negre

13/2012: Lessons from delivering as one: options for UN member states

Silke Weinlich and Urs Zollinger

12/2012: What opportunities do the New EU international investment agreements offer for developing countries?

Axel Berger and Julia Harten

11/2012: The European endowment for democracy between wishful thinking and reality: flexible and unbureaucratic?

Julia Leininger and Solveig Richter

10/2012: Community and local governance for peace and development in Nepal

Vidyadhar Mallik

9/2012: Sustainability standards and certification: towards sustainable palm oil in Indonesia?

Clara Brandi, Tobias Cabani, Christoph Hosang, Sonja Schirmbeck, Lotte Westermann and Hannah Wiese

8/2012: The financing of development cooperation at the United Nations: why more means less

Timo Casjen Mahn

7/2012: African developments: competing institutional arrangements for climate policy: the case of Nigeria

Peter Koblowsky and Chinwe Ifejika Speranza

6/2012: Rio+20 and the future of the UN sustainability architecture: what can we expect?

Steffen Bauer and Silke Weinlich

5/2012: Sustainable water management through green economy?

Annabelle Houdret, Elke Herrfahrdt-Pähle, Waltina Scheumann and Ines Dombrowsky

4/2012: Visibility vis-à-vis effectiveness of aid: looking for the third way

Frank Vollmer

3/2012: Changing global patterns of poverty

Markus Loewe and Nicole Rippin

2/2012: The World Development Report 2012 "Gender Equality and Development": conceptual turning point: but no change in practice?

Elke Herrfahrdt-Pähle and Birte Rodenberg

1/2012: Aid: dinosaur or development engine for Sub-Saharan Africa?

Stephan Klingebiel

19/2011: A response to the weaknesses of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): the correlation Sensitive Poverty Index (CSPI)

Nicole Rippin

18/2011: African developments: political trends in recent elections in Sub-Saharan Africa

Judith Vorrath

17/2011: Results based aid: limitations of new approaches

Stephan Klingebiel

16/2011: The G20: its role and challenges

Kathrin Berensmann, Thomas Fues and Ulrich Volz

15/2011: Burden-sharing and allocation criteria under the UN climate regime: neither fair nor effective

Britta Horstmann and Imme Scholz

14/2011: Agriculture is special: conclusions drawn from the death throes of the Doha round for a development-friendly agricultural trade policy

Michael Brüntrup, Clara Brandi and Nikolai Fuchs

13/2011: The financial crisis and international trade: the consequences for developing countries

Katrin Berensmann and Clara Brandi

12/2011: Democracy promotion in the age of social media: risks and opportunities

Anita Breuer

11/2011: Improving donor support for governance: the case for more rigorous impact evaluation

Maria Melody Garcia

10/2011: African development trends: lessons learnt from the global financial crisis

Kathrin Berensmann

9/2011: Prestação de contas através do diálogo: a Presidência Aberta e Inclusiva em Moçambique

Julia Leininger

8/2011: Multi-donor budget support: only halfway to effective coordination

Jörg Faust, Stefan Leiderer and Svea Koch

7/2011: Sustaining EU financing for security and development: the difficult case of the African peace facility

Mark Furness

6/2011: Accountability through dialogue: the Presidencîa Aberta e Inclusiva in Mozambique

Julia Leininger

5/2011: Taxation of non-renewable natural resources: what are the key issues?

Christian von Haldenwang

4/2011: African developments: the comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is an opportunity for African agriculture

Michael Brüntrup

3/2011: Reforming public financial management systems in developing countries as a contribution to the improvement of governance

Stephan Klingebiel and Timo Casjen Mahn

2/2011: The influence of China, Russia and India on the future of democracy in the Euro-Asian region

Jörn Grävingholt, Julia Bader, Jörg Faust and Antje Kästner

1/2011: Reform of the UN development system: new multilateralist reform coalition needed

Silke Weinlich

16/2010: African Developments: adapting to climate change – a governance Challenge

Elke Herrfahrdt-Pähle

15/2010: African Developments: Sub-Saharan Africa, too, could achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Markus Loewe

14/2010: African Developments: traditional bilateral donors at a crossroads

Erik Lundsgaarde

13/2010: African Developments: higher education and research capacities: Africa in the globalising knowledge society

Andreas Stamm and Lidija Knuth

12/2010: Integrated fiscal decentralisation: taking new aid modalities to the local level

Jörg Faust and Christian von Haldenwang

11/2010: International trade and climate change: border adjustment measures and developing countries

Clara Brandi

10/2010: State fragility indices: potentials, messages and limitations

Sebastian Ziaja and Javier Fabra

9/2010: Budget support as an aid instrument: neither pandemonium nor panacea

Stefan Leiderer