The Millennium Development Goals adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2000 have established global targets for development cooperation until 2015. They are being regularly monitored, and one may already now conclude that they will be achieved unevenly across the globe. In that light, it is...

The concept of justice is essential in this context of human development as well as in the context of cooperation. It plays a central role in the context of ‘human rights, democracy' and ‘good governance' which form core foundations of EU development cooperation. This study clarifies the use...

On 22 January 2019, France and Germany signed the Treaty of Aachen, which – among other things – foresees a stronger coordination and cooperation in the field of development policy. Against the backdrop of the Agenda 2030, the need for collective action has rarely been higher. Yet, although...

The author considers the role of the African Union and the New Partnership for Africa's Development as new and potentially powerful vehicles for the growth and development of the African continent. There is little doubt that the African Union-New Partnership for Africa's Development faces many...

China's development model challenges the approaches of traditional Western donors like the World Bank. We argue that both aim at stability, but differ in the norms propagated to achieve that. Using fixed effects and IV estimations, we analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in...