- nontariff - trade barriers. More specifically, regional tariff commitments have not only amplified applied tariff overhangs … the World Trade Organization (WTO), but have also sharply reduced their tariff policy space within Africa, thus leaving … regulatory policies such as sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures and technical barriers to trade (TBT) as two of the few …

With its unique multilateral assets, the United Nations Development System (UNDS) should be playing a key role in … assisting governments and other stakeholders with their implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. But this … competing entities, undermining its effective support for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) implementation. It is against that …

difficulties and losses in terms of inputs, harvests, trade and transportation. The new instability could easily spread to other … the design of lockdown measures, depends in particular on the degree of economic development, the extent to which the … poor South should thus look different to those in the global North and in emerging economies. For development cooperation …

Does aid contribute to development? If so, under what conditions and to what extent? These questions are as old as the … field of development policy itself and they have been controversially discussed among researchers and policymakers ever …, development actors want to understand and improve their contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Second, populist …

multilateral development cooperation – only with sufficient core funding at their disposal can multilaterals effectively and … states’ expectations and make full use of their unique assets to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. To … fully harness the potential of multilateral development cooperation, both member states and multilateral organisations have …

one is left behind.The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), the World Bank and … the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) worked together to explore ways to implement … the concept of just transition in German development cooperation. The two papers that have resulted from this process …