In the context of recent commodity price hikes, a political consensus has emerged on regulatory measures to reduce excessive speculation in commodity derivative markets. This paper gives an overview of current reform proposals of commodity derivate market regulation at the international (G20),...

The European Union (EU) recently presented a new development policy agenda that centers on the subject of change. We first assess the approach of the EU policy by discussing change in the sense of how it is used within the EU agenda. Second, we relate it to two recently published political...

This paper discusses integral implementation problems of the aid harmonization process within the European Union (EU) which has pretty much failed to show up with convincing results yet. Therefore this paper looks on the origins of the problems EU donors struggle with. It has turned out that in...

Mit Inkrafttreten des Vertrags von Lissabon im Dezember 2009 ist die Zuständigkeit für Investitionsverträge mit Drittstaaten auf die Europäische Union (EU) übergegangen und wurde somit Teil der Gemeinsamen Handelspolitik. Das vorliegende Working Paper beschreibt mögliche Auswirkungen...

Der erste Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) Fortschrittsbericht der EU-Kommission vom September 2007 hat deutlich gezeigt, dass sowohl die EU-Kommission als auch die EU-Mitgliedsländer - mit wenigen Ausnahmen - bei der konkreten Umsetzung von PCD am Anfang stehen. Trotz der...

The new EU development agenda is an adaptation of an old mismatch in development policy, which is the effort to join, on the one hand, donor-driven demand for good governance and democracy, and on the other hand, a commitment to the ownership of development strategies by the recipient countries....