Die Türkei hat sich über die vergangenen Jahre hinweg zu einem bedeutenden Geberland in der internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit entwickelt. Dieses Papier erläutert die Ziele und Prinzipien der türkischen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und analysiert ihre Bedeutung für die türkische...

The European Union is one of the world’s most important actors in assisting fragile and conflict-affected countries, and has made engagement with ‘fragile states’ a top priority for its development policy. At the policy level, the EU’s approach is in line with international best...

Since the 2000s, the international community has increasingly recognised two basic aspects of development cooperation. First, international development cooperation faces a systemic crisis. Because of the way it is organised and implemented, it is part of the problem it wants solve. As a...

Turkey has developed into a significant donor country within international development cooperation over the last few years. This paper outlines the goals and principles of Turkish development cooperation and analyses their significance for the country's foreign policy. It takes a closer look at...

A variety of governmental actors within OECD-DAC donor countries oversee funding distributed to developing countries. This paper examines the role of diverse bureaucracies within the development policy systems of Germany and the United States and highlights core questions that their...

An increasingly complex aid landscape makes it urgent to find ways for partner countries to manage the diversity of aid actors and channels. However, it remains unclear what ‘managing diversity’ actually means and how this vague idea should be put into practice. This paper explores potential...

We analyse domestic factors within European donor countries that have influenced their provision of budget support. Budget support has been one of the most promising, and at the same time, controversial aid instruments aimed at improving aid effectiveness as well as donor harmonisation. Based on...

The world is experiencing a structural change on an unprecedented scale: it is becoming less poor and more middle-class. The growth of emerging middle classes has profound implications for global development. Yet, although the emergence of middle classes across the globe and its potential...

This paper analyses the past and present efforts by the German government at the federal level and its 16 federal states to contribute towards ongoing academic and policy debates on translating the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development into action. The paper applies the concept of “policy...

Analyses of the effectiveness of democracy promotion rest on assumptions of cultural universalism. The instruments of democracy promotion are expected to work independently of cultural differences. This is surprising because an important body of scholarly work revolves around conceptualizing,...