German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Abstract:
Until now, the Corona crisis is mainly fought through lockdown measures. In more wealthy countries, these have barely an immediate effect on food security. In poor countries, the situation is different: There, these measures threaten people immediately. The text discusses issues and consequences.
Topic:
Development, Poverty, Food Security, COVID-19, and Health Crisis
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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This briefing paper proposes an integrated approach of aid effectiveness that brings together four fragemented policy and research communities. The integrated approach can help development organisations and researchers to better organise and communicate their contributions to the 2030 Agenda.
Topic:
Development, Foreign Aid, and Sustainable Development Goals
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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rilateral Cooperation (TriCo) has to operate growing complexity in the international development cooperation, going beyond the North-South-divide. TriCo became broader, more dynamic and flexible. The briefing presents recommendations to advance TriCo for all donors, and to make the modality support the 2030 Agenda.
Topic:
Development, International Cooperation, and United Nations
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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The United Nations development system and other multilateral organizations have increasingly been funded through earmarked contributions. This has implications for their ability to effectively and independently perform the functions member states’ expect of them.
Topic:
Development, International Cooperation, United Nations, Multilateralism, Development Aid, and Funding
Babette Never, Jose Ramon Albert, Hanna Fuhrmann, Sebastian Gsell, Miguel Jaramillo, Sascha Kuhn, and Bernardin Senadza
Publication Date:
01-2020
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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As households move out of poverty, spending patterns change. This is good news from a
development perspective, but changing consumer behaviour may imply substantially more
carbon emissions. The lifestyle choices of the emerging middle classes are key, now and in the
future. This paper explores the consumption patterns of the emerging middle classes and their
carbon intensity, using unique micro data from household surveys conducted in Ghana, Peru
and the Philippines. We find that carbon-intensive consumption increases with wealth in all
three countries, and most sharply from the fourth to the fifth middle-class quintile due to
changes in travel behaviour, asset ownership and use. In Peru, this shift in the upper-middleclass quintiles translates to annual incomes of roughly USD 11,000-17,000 purchasing power
parity. Environmental knowledge and concern are fairly evenly spread at mid- to high levels
and do lead to more easy-entry sustainable behaviours, but they do not decrease the level of
carbon emissions. To some extent, a knowledge/concern–action gap exists. In our study, social
status matters less than the literature claims. Our results have two implications. First, the
differentiations between developing/developed countries in the global climate debate may be
outdated: It is about being part of the global middle classes or not. Second, a positive spillover
from existing easy-entry sustainable behaviours to a change in carbon-intensive consumption
patterns needs policy support.
Topic:
Climate Change, Development, Class, and Carbon Emissions
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Corporate tax revenue and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) are two key development finance sources. This paper discusses potential trade-offs faced by developing countries, when mobilizing corporate tax revenue and FDI jointly, and provides policy recommendations how to address these trade-offs.
Topic:
Development, Foreign Direct Investment, Finance, and Corporate Tax
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Abstract:
This paper suggests ways to improve G7 accountability practice so that it better capture learning effects. Better designed commitments and improved follow up would also support G7 legitimacy, because this would make it easier for external stakeholders to check G7 action against its words.
Extreme-weather events, such as tropical cyclones, floods, droughts, and intense heat, are shaping migration and displacement in countries around the world, and climate change is likely to make events like these more intense and more frequent. The effects of such conditions vary across regions and can spark a range of migration outcomes—both increases and decrease in movement along existing routes, the creation of new routes, and growth in the number of people who may want or need to move but who are unable to do so.
But while the potential of climate change to affect human mobility is widely recognized, estimating future climate-related migration and displacement is made difficult by uncertainty surrounding the future of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and of sustainable development and migration policies.
This Transatlantic Council on Migration report describes the findings of a first-of-its-kind exercise to explore how future climatic conditions under standardized greenhouse gas concentration scenarios may affect climate-related drivers of migration and displacement, and how international development and migration policies may mediate (or exacerbate) migration outcomes. It considers how this may play out in two periods (2020–50 and 2050–2100), and in top source regions for international migration: East and Southeast Asia, South and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa.
Topic:
Climate Change, Development, Migration, Law, Refugees, and Sustainable Development Goals
The Global Fragility Act (GFA), passed by Congress and signed into law in 2019, requires the State Department, USAID, and other agencies to put in place for the first time a comprehensive strategy to address state fragility, violent conflict, and extremism, relying on best practices that are key to more effective and integrated U.S. policy. This report focuses on six key themes in the legislation, drawing on the expertise of leading peacebuilding and development experts to help generate practical solutions for advancing the GFA.
Topic:
Development, Fragile States, Pandemic, USAID, Resilience, and COVID-19
Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV)
Abstract:
In the interview that has been made under Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNS) supported TESEV project called Improving Data Ecosystems for Sustainable City, Teemu Ropponen (General Manager of MyData Global) answers the question of “How do you think this work can be improved in the future?”.
Topic:
Development, Governance, Urbanization, Urban, Sustainability, and Data