Making holes in the filter bubble

By Afrika, , ,
Image: Newspapers

Think like the media

Reading the papers over the last few months, I’ve picked up different pieces of information about “Africa”. Of course, I saw that Angela Merkel called for a new refugee policy during her visit to Mali, Niger and Ethiopia, acknowledging that it was in Germany’s interest to promote Africa’s welfare. Less prominently featured was news of a controversy among agricultural economists over whether the Guinea Savannah could be turned into a bread basket for Zambia through agriculture.

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Warum und wie die deutsche EZ die Weltbank besser nutzen sollte – ein Plädoyer für Bi/Multi-Verzahnung

By Zukunft der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, , , , ,
Image: Zahräder

Komplexe Interdependenz

Der Referenzrahmen der Entwicklungspolitik heute ist die globalisierte Welt mit interdependenten Problemlagen. Dies erfordert eine systematische Verzahnung des bi- und multilateralen Instrumentariums und insbesondere eine enge Zusammenarbeit mit der Weltbank.

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How the G20 can deal with Trump’s Chinese currency complaints in Baden-Baden

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Photo: Trump Cartoon

Trump still aims to designate China as a currency manipulator

Last week in an interview with Reuters, U.S. President Trump labelled the Chinese as “grand champions at manipulation of currency”, indicating he has not fully backtracked from his campaign promise to designate China as a ‘currency manipulator’ on ‘day one’ of his Presidency. The position of Washington on this topic has not exactly been crystal clear, however, with the new U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Steve Mnuchin, announcing on the same day as Trump’s comment that the Treasury was in fact still going through the formal process of analysing Chinese currency practices, and that no judgements would be made prior to the completion of that process. …

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Privatsektorförderung in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit – ein wichtiger Faktor für die Agenda 2030

By Zukunft der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, , , ,

Photo: Hot metal

Mit der „Agenda 2030 für nachhaltige Entwicklung“ verständigten sich die UN-Mitgliedstaaten im Jahr 2015 auf 17 globale Ziele für nachhaltige ökonomische, ökologische und soziale Entwicklung. Im Unterschied zu den Millennium-Entwicklungszielen, die vor allem auf die Armutsbekämpfung in Entwicklungsländern abzielten, betonen die „Sustainable Development Goals“ (SDG) die gemeinsame Verantwortung aller Staaten der Weltgemeinschaft.

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The Munich Security Conference – three world orders in the making

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Image: Munich Security Conference

New directions from Munich

Bringing together more than 400 foreign and security policy elites from the transatlantic community and an irritatingly small number of representatives from the non-Western world, the Munich Security Conference somewhat resembled a couple’s therapy session and an attempt at self-reassurance. Does the West still exist? Do we still need the West? What is the West about? And, finally, a huge question, which world order is it worth fighting for?

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