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9/2025: Local feminist perspectives as transformation levers for greater gender equality: Synthesis study

Jacqueline Götze, Stephan Klingebiel and Maryam Khalid

8/2025: Local feminist perspectives as transformative levers: Women's health and climate action in India

Sreerupa Sengupta, Divya Singhal and Ananya Chakraborty

7/2025: Local feminist perspectives as transformation levers for sustainable development in Ukraine in the context of ongoing defence

Olena Oleksandrivna Strelnyk, Liudmyla Yuzva and Tamara Zlobina

6/2025: Feminists' perspectives as transformative levers in Ghana

Fidelia N. A. Ohemeng, Deda Ogum, Deborah Tayo Akakpo and Dorcas Coker-Appiah

5/2025: Intersecting constraints: Exploring labour market barriers for urban women in Sub-Saharan Africa

Alexander Stöcker

4/2025: Trump's assault on foreign aid: Implications for international development cooperation

Sebastian Haug, Anna Novoselova and Stephan Klingebiel

3/2025: Macroprudential policies and private domestic investment in developing countries: An instrumental variables approach

Bao-We-Wal Bambe

2/2025: From polarisation to autocratisation: The role of information pollution in Brazil's democratic erosion

Anita Breuer

1/2025: Transparenz für mehr Wirksamkeit und öffentliches Vertrauen? Das deutsche Transparenzportal im internationalen Vergleich

Heiner Janus and Tim Röthel

17/2024: Digital transformation for a sustainable future: Insights from Brazil's civil service

Sven Grimm, Wulf Reiners, Mara Braun, Laura Donath, Sophia Hörbelt, Sophie Lampert and Marcel Wich

16/2024: Economic development and barriers to (decent) work for women in SSA and MENA

Alexander Stöcker and Tina Zintl

15/2024: Impact du Crédit Agricole Direct de la Banque Nationale de développement agricole du Mali: Rapport d'étude

N. Sheila Sagbo, Lacina Traoré, Youssouf Fofana and Michael Brüntrup

14/2024: Private sector mobilisation: Turning a pipe dream into reality

Jürgen Zattler

13/2024: The Group of 77 and global dialogue in the United Nations General Assembly

Max-Otto Baumann, Anna Novoselova, Javier Surasky and Philipp Schönrock

12/2024: Challenges for food subsidy reform: Lessons learnt from the Just Distribution of Subsidies Scheme in Iran

Ali Akbar Tajmazinani

11/2024: The European Union's global role in a changing world: Challenges and opportunities for the new leadership

Hackenesch, Christine (Ed.), Keijzer, Niels (Ed.) and Koch, Svea (Ed.)

10/2024: Exploring the influence of power on the governance of climate im/mobility in Accra and Dakar

Susan Ekoh

9/2024: The New South: Breaking with the past. West-South engagement in a changing world

Len Ishmael

8/2024: Operationalising social contracts: Towards an index of government deliverables

Markus Loewe, Amirah El-Haddad and Tina Zintl

7/2024: Wie bedingen sich Rechenschaftslegung und organisationales Lernen in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit?

Daniel E. Esser and Heiner Janus

6/2024: Green hydrogen in Namibia: Opportunities and risks

Tilman Altenburg and Anne Kantel

5/2024: Universality in action: Why and how United Nations development work should engage with high-income countries

Max-Otto Baumann and Sebastian Haug

4/2024: Transnational cooperation: An explorative collection

Grimm, Sven (Ed.) and Klingebiel, Stephan (Ed.)

3/2024: The role of the consumer and systemic policy mixes for circular business models in the EU

Hanna Fuhrmann-Riebel

2/2024: Information integrity and information pollution: Vulnerabilities and impact on social cohesion and democracy in Mexico

Anita Breuer

1/2024: Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) and the "greening" of high-emitting industry sectors in Brazil: Mapping the sustainability efforts of the private sector

Vera Thorstensen, Ariel Macaspac Hernandez, Rogerio de Oliveira Corrêa, Dolores Teixeira de Brito, Mauro Kiithi Arima Júnior, Catherine Rebouças Mota, Tiago Matsuoka Megale, Amanda Mitsue Zuchieri and Fábio Jorge Thomazella

21/2023: Development finance at a turning point: Effects and policy recommendations

Kathrin Berensmann, Sabine Laudage Teles, Christoph Sommer and Yabibal Walle

20/2023: Contextualising social cohesion I: An overview of concepts in Africa

Eli Wortmann-Kolundžija

19/2023: On the edge: Delays in election results and electoral violence in Sub-Sahara Africa

Ghadafi Saibu

18/2023: Chinese firms and adherence to global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards in developing countries: Is there potential to create common ground?

Mike Morris

17/2023: Are global value chains for sale? On business-state relations in the MENA region

Nora Aboushady and Chahir Zaki

16/2023: Urbanisation and social cohesion: Theory and empirical evidence from Africa

Tekalign Sakketa

15/2023: The implementation of sustainability taxonomies: The case of South Africa

Sören Hilbrich, Kathrin Berensmann, Giovanna Artmann, Sam Ashman, Theresa Herbold, Steffen Lötters-Viehof, Agnese Monti, Felix Paffhausen, Stephanie Roigk and Lee-Ann Steenkamp

14/2023: Learning from KfW's ex-post evaluations? How conflicting objectives can limit their usefulness

Nicola M. Dörrbecker

13/2023: What role for aid for trade in (deep) PTA relations? Empirical evidence from gravity model estimations

Frederik Stender and Tim Vogel

12/2023: Lernen aus Ex-post-Evaluierungen der KfW? Wie Zielkonflikte den Nutzen einschränken können

Nicola M. Dörrbecker

11/2023: Political participation patterns of the emerging middle classes in Peru and the Philippines

Babette Never and Chiara Anselmetti

10/2023: The role of social protection in environmental fiscal reforms

Daniele Malerba

9/2023: Green hydrogen: Implications for international cooperation. With special reference to South Africa

Andreas Stamm, Tilman Altenburg, Rita Strohmaier, Ece Oyan and Katharina Thoms

8/2023: Circular business models: Policy enablers for plastic packaging alternatives in India

Jenny To

7/2023: Tax expenditures in OECD countries: Findings from the Global Tax Expenditures Database

Martin Beznoska, Christian von Haldenwang and Ruth M. Schüler

6/2023: (R)evolution? Exploring the potential of post-development approaches for reforming development cooperation

Francy Köllner

5/2023: How does globalisation affect social cohesion?

Kasper Vrolijk

4/2023: Towards a seat at the table: How an initiative of cities got their voices heard during Germany's 2022 G7 presidency

Maria Elisabeth Gronen and Yannick Sudermann

3/2023: The politics of "what works": Evidence incentives and entrepreneurship in development organisations

Pablo Yanguas

2/2023: The future of EU blended finance and guarantees: An assessment of cooperation strategies with least developed countries in Africa

Erik Lundsgaarde

1/2023: Iraq's quest for a social contract: An approach to promoting social cohesion and state resilience

Wolfgang Mühlberger

21/2022: International democracy promotion in times of autocratization: From supporting to protecting democracy

Julia Leininger

20/2022: Policy responses to COVID-19: Why social cohesion and social protection matter in Africa

Julia Leininger, Armin von Schiller, Christoph Strupat and Daniele Malerba

19/2022: The effects of a private-sector-driven smallholder support programme on productivity, market participation and food and nutrition security: Evidence of a nucleus-outgrower scheme from Zambia

Tekalign Sakketa, Raoul Herrmann, Chewe Nkonde, Mwelwa Lukonde and Michael Brüntrup