New project “digitainable” at the Innovation-Campus Bonn (ICB) Digitalization is an important driver for change in many areas of our lives and there is intense debate about whether it has a positive or negative impact on sustainable development. Often such considerations remain general. The main objective of the project digitainable is to go beyond this…
Junior researchers start their field research in Jordan, Botswana and Ethiopia Three research teams from the Postgraduate Training Programme at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) will start their field research in partner countries in the Global South these days. In the upcoming weeks, the research teams will address key challenges…
Chancellor Angela Merkel has appointed the 15 members of the German Council for Sustainable Development for the term 2020-2023, starting 1 January. In its first meeting the Council elected Imme Scholz as deputy chairperson. Werner Schnappauf, former Bavarian Minister for the Environment, was elected chair of the Council. With Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, former German Minister for…
Axel Berger presented the new Investment Facilitation Index (IFI) at the Public Forum of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 10 and 11 October 2019 in Geneva. The index maps the adoption of investment facilitation measures at domestic level and serves as a basis for future research on the economic benefits and costs of an…
In cooperation with the World Bank, Christoph Strupat, researcher in programme „Transformation of Economic and Social Systems“ at DIE, examined the effects of nationwide health insurance in Ghana. The authors show that there were not only savings in individual health expenditures, but that health insurance also makes a significant contribution to reducing child labour and…