Looking at today’s policy challenges in richer and poorer countries through the analytical lens of global public goods (GPGs), including the links between GPG provisioning and development, this paper suggests a three-pronged approach for the framing of the Post-2015 Agenda: (1) to organise the...

Die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) ist Teil eines Systems der internationalen Kooperation, das durch Fragmentierung und Defizite in der Bearbeitung globaler Probleme geprägt ist. Auf der Grundlage des Beyond Aid-Begriffs entwickelt dieser Artikel einen konzeptionellen Rahmen zum Verständnis...

In their response to the global financial crisis, the international financial institutions (IFIs) have not only increased funds for shock financing, but have also significantly reformed their instruments. Nevertheless, some gaps remain. IFIs should consider the fact that most advanced low-income...

Changes in the financing of United Nations development cooperation (UN-DC) are gradually eroding the multilateral character of UN development aid. Two trends have become clear over the past 15 years. First, donors have more than doubled their financial contributions for UN development...

The UN Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa in July 2015 will pave the way for the implementation of the post-2015 development agenda. The Briefing Paper series “Financing Global Development“ analyses key financial and non-financial means of implementation for the new...

Die Finanzierung der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit der Vereinten Nationen (VN-EZ) ist einem grundsätzlichen Wandel unterworfen, in dessen Folge der multilaterale Charakter der VN-EZ sukzessive verloren zu gehen droht. Zwei Trends sind für die letzten 15 Jahre kennzeichnend: Zum einen haben die...

Die dritte UN-Konferenz zur Entwicklungsfinanzierung im Juli 2015 in Addis Abeba soll den Weg für die Verwirklichung der Post-2015-Entwicklungsagenda ebnen. Die Serie „Finanzierung globaler Entwicklung“ der „Analysen und Stellungnahmen“ analysiert wichtige finanzielle und...

The wide availability of renewable energy sources in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is at the core of several large-scale European initiatives to support clean energy generation in the region and import part of it to Europe. Given the current socio-economic and political challenges in...

This study - commissioned by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) – evaluates the direct effects (i.e. the direct and induced outputs) of budget support in Zambia. It forms part of a joint international evaluation of budget support in Zambia. The report focuses on...