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3/2017: Rising powers and the provision of transnational public goods: conceptual considerations and features of South Africa as a case study

Stephan Klingebiel

2/2017: Towards “greening” trade? Tracking environmental provisions in the preferential trade agreements of emerging markets

Axel Berger, Clara Brandi, Dominique Bruhn and Manjiao Chi

1/2017: The concept of SDG-sensitive development cooperation: implications for OECD-DAC members

Alexandra Rudolph

27/2016: Comparing structure and organisation of development bureaucracies in Europe: a pilot study of European aid administrations

Thomas Henökl

26/2016: Urban sewage in Brazil: drivers of and obstacles to wastewater treatment and reuse. Governing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Series

Katharina Stepping

25/2016: Results-based approaches in agriculture: what is the potential?

Heiner Janus and Sarah Holzapfel

24/2016: Directing structural change: from tools to policy

Tilman Altenburg, Maria Kleinz and Wilfried Lütkenhorst

23/2016: Taxing carbon as an instrument of green industrial policy in developing countries

Anna Pegels

22/2016: The European Union Trust Fund for Africa: a glimpse of the future for EU development cooperation

Clare Castillejo

21/2016: Financing options for loss and damage: a review and roadmap

J. Timmons Roberts, Saleemul Huq, Alexis Durand, Victoria Hoffmeister, Jonathan Gewirtzman, Sujay Natson and Romain Weikmans

20/2016: The promotion of decentralisation and local governance in fragile contexts

Jörn Grävingholt and Christian von Haldenwang

19/2016: The missing link: values and the effectiveness of international democracy promotion

Kai Striebinger

18/2016: Measuring legitimacy: new trends, old shortcomings?

Christian von Haldenwang

17/2016: Addressing food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa: the role of cash transfers

Francesco Burchi, Margherita Scarlato and Giorgio d'Agostino

16/2016: From protection to reduction? The impact of the public health insurance scheme on child labour in Ghana

Christoph Strupat

15/2016: Ecuador’s fiscal policies in the context of the citizens’ revolution: a ‘virtuous cycle’ and its limits

Timm B. Schützhofer

14/2016: Reforming the UN Development System: can North and South overcome their political differences in making the UN fit for purpose?

Max-Otto Baumann

13/2016: Promoting the Sustainable Development Goals in Germany

Imme Scholz, Niels Keijzer and Carmen Richerzhagen

12/2016: Wastewater systems and energy saving in urban India: governing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus series

Babette Never

11/2016: Minorities and trade: what do we know, and how can policymakers take it into account?

Benjamin Müller and Alexandros Ragoussis

10/2016: Implications of the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) for developing countries

Sherry M. Stephenson, Alexandros Ragoussis and Jimena Sotelo

9/2016: How are we getting ready? The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the EU and its Member States: analysis and action so far

Ingeborg Niestroy

8/2016: New approaches to development cooperation in middle-income countries: brokering collective action for global sustainable development

Sebastian Paulo and Stephan Klingebiel

7/2016: Risks and opportunities of non-bank based financing for agriculture: the case of agricultural value chain financing

Rauno Zander

6/2016: The political economy of cash transfers: a comparative analysis of Latin American and sub-Saharan African experiences

Margherita Scarlato and Giorgio d'Agostino

5/2016: Government agoraphobia: home bias in developing country procurement markets

Alexandros Ragoussis

4/2016: Self-differentiation of countries’ responsibilities: addressing climate change through intended nationally determined contributions

Kennedy Liti Mbeva and Pieter Pauw

3/2016: Non-economic loss and damage in the context of climate change: understanding the challenges

Olivia Serdeczny, Eleanor Waters and Sander Chan

2/2016: Making retail modernisation in developing countries inclusive: a development policy perspective

Tilman Altenburg, Elmar Kulke, Caroline Reeg, Lisa Peterskovsky and Aimée Hampel-Milagrosa

1/2016: Can rules of origin in sub-Saharan Africa be harmonised? A political economy exploration

Peter Draper, Heinrich Krogman and Cynthia Chikura

13/2015: Trade flows in developing countries: what is the role of trade finance?

Clara Brandi and Birgit Schmitz

12/2015: Universelle Verantwortung: die Bedeutung der 2030-Agenda für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung der deutschen Bundesländer

Cecilia Fischer and Imme Scholz

11/2015: How can public works programmes create sustainable employment?

Esther Gehrke and Renate Hartwig

10/2015: Micro and small enterprises as drivers for job creation and decent work

Caroline Reeg

9/2015: Can public works infrastructure affect employment outcomes? Evidence from the NREGS in India

Esther Gehrke

8/2015: How could the South respond to secular stagnation in the North?

Joerg Mayer

7/2015: Translating an ambitious vision into global transformation: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development

Loewe, Markus (Ed.) and Rippin, Nicole (Ed.)

6/2015: Towers of strength in turbulent times? Assessing the effectiveness of international support to peace and democracy in Kenya and Kyrgyzstan in the aftermath of interethnic violence

Charlotte Fiedler

5/2015: Revisiting hydro-hegemony from a benefitsharing perspective: the case of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

Rawia M. Tawfik Amer

4/2015: Big results now? Emerging lessons from results-based aid in Tanzania

Heiner Janus and Niels Keijzer

3/2015: The fragile road towards peace and democracy: insights on the effectiveness of international support to post-conflict Burundi

Karina Mroß

2/2015: Improving education outcomes by linking payments to results: an assessment of disbursement-linked indicators in five results-based approaches

Sarah Holzapfel and Heiner Janus

1/2015: In search of a narrative for Southern providers: the challenge of the emerging economies to the development cooperation agenda

Gerardo Bracho

37/2014: Do preferential trade agreements increase their members’ foreign direct investment?

Max Büge

36/2014: Can supply chain initiatives reduce deforestation? A comparative analysis of cases from Brazil and Indonesia

Karen Meijer

35/2014: A cartography of the new middle classes in developing and emerging countries

Clara Brandi and Max Büge

34/2014: A global framework for climate action: orchestrating non-state and subnational initiatives for more effective global climate governance

Sander Chan and Pieter Pauw

33/2014: The role of international financial institutions in macroeconomic crises: improving the architecture of the World Bank and the IMF for managing shocks in developing countries

Kathrin Berensmann and Peter Wolff

32/2014: The innovation path of the Chinese wind power industry

Yixin Dai, Di Xia, Yuan Zhou and Lan Xue

31/2014: Boosting or hindering aid effectiveness? An assessment of systems for measuring agency results

Sarah Holzapfel