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What is the future role of the United Nations development system, how will it function and what are the necessary means? This paper proposes a system-wide strategy and “quiet revolution” reforms to position the UN development system for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Agenda.
A core element of the international policy response to the crisis has been to strengthen the macroprudential orientation of financial market regulation. Macroprudential policies stand for enhanced regulatory focus on systemic risks in the financial system and their repercussions for the macroeconomy.
Wennubst, Pio / Timo Casjen Mahn (2013)
Discussion Paper, 22/2013
What is the future role of the United Nations development system, how will it function and what are the necessary means? This paper proposes a system-wide strategy and “quiet revolution” reforms to position the UN development system for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Agenda.
The EU faces three types of challenge in implementing programmes in fragile and conflict affected countries: cognitive challenges, conflicts of interest, and coordination challenges. This paper analyses the EU's efforts to overcome these in its engagement with South Sudan, Nepal and Liberia.
The paper discusses public leveraging instruments to mobilise resources for green investments in developing countries and emerging economies; it adresses their strengths, weaknesses, and potential for a broader use; it points out research gaps and concludes by giving some policy recommendations.
Im Fokus des Papier steht die Rolle des Freihandelsregimes für die Ausgestaltung von Umweltpolitiken, die Folgen des Regulierungswettbewerbs für das Niveau von Umweltschutzregulierungen und das Verlagerungsproblem im Kontext des internationalen Handels.
Klingebiel, Stephan (2017)
Discussion Paper, 3/2017
The paper addresses the group of countries known as the ‘rising powers’ and the role these countries could play as regards a globalised common good. It focuses on South Africa as a case study for the main rising power on the African continent.
Does the construction of dam projects as a tactic to counter the dominance of hegemonic powers in transboundary rivers lead to a more equitable order for sharing water and benefits? The paper examines this question using the case of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam