Every Monday, the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) comments on the latest issues and trends of international development policy by its Current Column. The column is intended for politically interested readers who want to get a brief overview on the state of German and international development policy.
Current and past issues can be downloaded for free from the IDOS website.
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Furness, Mark / Tina Zintl (2023)
The Current Column, 26 October 2023
International development donors need to start thinking about how they can break the vicious cycle of polarization and support ordinary Palestinians in the future.
Lynders, Eva / Wulf Reiners / Johanna Vogel (2023)
The Current Column, 25 September 2023
Global cooperation must serve more than a narrow understanding of self-interest. Transnational knowledge networks are indispensable for shaping a fair and functional partnership of mutual benefit.
Wisskirchen, Alma / Axel Berger (2023)
The Current Column, 04 September 2023
“It is vital that the summits in New Delhi and New York generate political momentum and also result in concrete initiatives, as the progress made halfway through the 2030 Agenda timeline is disastrously slow.“
Waltenberg, Tabea / Leonie Droste (2023)
The Current Column, 28 August 2023
Even though the very existence of the 2030 Agenda as a joint steering instrument can certainly be seen as a success in view of the complex conflicts of interest at a multilateral level, the agenda needs to act as a framework throughout the world through legally binding norms and laws in order to accelerate its implementation.
Dang, Vy / Eva Lynders / Wulf Reiners (2023)
The Current Column, 21 August 2023
To secure that success, India sees a solution in re-orienting its G20 narrative towards the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as an existing common point of reference and framework for cooperation.
Iacobuta, Gabriela / Steffen Bauer (2023)
The Current Column, 05 June 2023
Economic concerns and development aspirations must no longer serve as a pretext for lukewarm climate action, but quite to the contrary ambitious climate action is an imperative for equitable and just sustainable development.
Bergmann, Julian / Niels Keijzer (2023)
The Current Column, 08 May 2023
Against the backdrop of a changing world order, geopolitics has become the central topic of political discourse in Brussels. However, the EU must not pursue its geopolitical ambitions at the expense of its development policy