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Getting special drawing rights right : opportunities for re-channelling SDRs to vulnerable countries

Zattler, Jürgen - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2024

Many developing countries are still grappling with the consequences of the pandemic and the associated high debt burdens while facing huge financing needs, inter alia related to climate change. In response, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued $650 billion in Special Drawing Rights...

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Dissecting aid fragmentation : development goals and levels of analysis

Carlitz, Ruth D.; Ziaja, Sebastian - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2021

Aid fragmentation is widely denounced, though recent studies suggest potential benefits. To reconcile these mixed findings, we make a case for studying differences across aid sectors and levels of analysis. Our cross-national time-series analysis of data from 141 countries suggests aid...

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Global access to COVID-19 vaccines : challenges in production, affordability, distribution and utilisation

Stamm, Andreas; Strupat, Christoph; Hornidge, Anna-Katharina - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing vaccination process calls for decisive, internationally coordinated and forward-looking action. We propose short-, medium- and long-term actions and emphasise that the political pressure for action should not only focus on short-term management, but on...

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Conflicting interests and the localisation of international migration governance norms in Ghana

Jaji, Rose - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2024

This Policy Brief addresses the challenges that Ghana faces in implementing governance norms on international migration. Although Ghana has committed to the goals of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and the African Union (AU) and Economic Community of West...

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Universality in action : why and how United Nations development work should engage with high-income countries

Baumann, Max-Otto; Haug, Sebastian - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2024

This Discussion Paper makes the case for universality in United Nations (UN) development work. So far, the UN development pillar has largely remained wedded to a 20th-century approach to development cooperation that centres on two groups of states and a one-way relationship between them: rich...

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 16 : a governance compass towards just transition?

Balasubramanian, Pooja; Breuer, Anita; Leininger, Julia; … - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2022

The 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development of 2015 prominently stresses that “the SDGs are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental” (UN [United Nations], 2015, p. 3). Behind this statement lies a...

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Implementation of the WTO Investment Facilitation for development agreement : identification of reform needs and development policy measure

Berger, Axel; Bolmer, Ann-Margret; Gitt, Florian; … - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2023

More than 110 Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), many of them developing countries and least-developed countries (LDCs), are negotiating a plurilateral Agreement on Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD). In contract to existing bilateral investment treaties that establish...

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Greening economies in partner countries : priorities for international cooperation

Altenburg, Tilman; Pegels, Anna; Böhl Gutierrez, Mauricio - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2024

reform should be a priority area in at least 15 of the over 40 partner countries with whom Germany cooperates on “sustainable …

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The future of climate and development finance : balancing separate accounting with integrated policy responses

Koch, Svea; Aleksandrova, Mariya - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2023

countries will again take centre stage. Ongoing efforts to reform climate finance include the negotiation of a New Collective … Quantified Goal (NCQG) by the end of 2024; the structural reform of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) to provide more climate … negotiations under the UNFCCC around the NCQG and loss and damage for a necessary ODA reform. In particular, we make the following …

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Trade and climate change : how to design better climate-related provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements

Brandi, Clara; Holzer, Kateryna; Morin, Jean-Frédéric; … - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2023

Linking trade to environmental goals is gaining momentum. Ever more discussion about trade and climate interlinkages are prevalent in both the trade and climate policy communities. The dedicated Trade Day at the 28th Conference to the Parties (COP28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on...

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