Against the background of the elections to the European Parliament on 26 May 2019, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in cooperation with the SÜDWIND Institute organised a panel discussion with representatives from politics, science and civil society. With the elections, European citizens are called upon to have a say in…
First insights into the relationships between the informal sector, participation in social security systems and civic trust in state institutions were provided at the workshop Surveys on the Informal Economy Kenya & Benin. The subject of the discussions on 4 and 5 April at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in Berlin were the results of two household…
The United Kingdom is one of the four principal actors of European development cooperation. Thus, Brexit will have significant consequences for the future of Europe’s global role. This situation was the backdrop to a panel discussion of the series Bonner Impulse on 27 February, which focused on the future relationship between the UK and the…
On 4 April, the workshop „Preferences, attitudes and environmental impacts of the new middle classes“ takes place at DIE. The workshop aims to uncover effective combinations of policies to change towards sustainable lifestyles with a special focus on behavioural approaches. The research group “Sustainable Middle Classes in Middle Income Countries: Transformation of Carbon Consumption Patterns…
The Roundtable “Investment Facility for Sustainable Development”, organized by DIE on 19 March 2019 in Berlin, brought together senior experts from governments, international organizations and academia. The aim was to discuss options on how current discussions on an international framework for investment facilitation can better promote sustainable development. Investment facilitation is a new issue on…