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  • The world of official data and statistics: not yet dead!

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    Data and statistics; not yet dead

    Recently, it has become popular to question the relevance of “statistics” to make sense of the evolving nature of today’s world. A recent article in the Guardian claimed that “rather than diffusing controversy and polarisation, it seems as if statistics are actually stoking them”. The credibility of “official statistics” on GDP, poverty or migration flows gets questioned as they seem to not be in line with what citizens experience in their daily lives. Nor do they seem able to capture how large parts of the population “feel” about societal developments.

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  • The G20 and Africa: Developing Industrial Capacity

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    Supporting Industrialisation in Africa

    When they met in Hangzhou, China in September 2016, the G20 leaders launched the Initiative on Supporting Industrialisation in Africa and Least Developing Countries. It is certainly one on which Germany can build in the course of its own presidency in 2017. And hence, important that Germany sustain the momentum of this Initiative.

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  • Bundeswehr und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Gemeinsames Engagement für fragile Staaten

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    Beiträge zur Stabilisierung

    Das Zusammenspiel von Entwicklungspolitik, Militär und anderen Akteuren beim Krisenengagement in fragilen Staaten entwickelt sich positiv, das zeigt das Beispiel Mali. Dennoch ist eine Weiterentwicklung angeraten, die abgestimmtes und koordiniertes Planen und Handeln konsequent auf Krisenprävention ausrichtet. Dabei hat die Gemeinsamkeit Priorität. Das neue Weißbuch zur Sicherheitspolitik und zur Zukunft der Bundeswehr weist hierfür den Weg.

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  • The G20 and Africa

    Africa and the German G20 presidency

    The German government has identified deeper cooperation with Africa as one of the top priorities for its G20 presidency. Against this background, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), as the coordinators of the T20 process in 2016/17, together with the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), are hosting the T20 Africa Conference: Building alliances for sustainable development on 1-3 February in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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  • Macroeconomic Policies for 2017 and beyond

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    Fiscal policy options for G20

    In this post, Fabrizio Carmignani considers the global macroeconomic context of this year’s G20 meetings. In the face of sluggish GDP growth, and increasingly limited space for further monetary policy manoeuvre, Carmignani outlines potential fiscal policy options for G20 governments to consider individually, and collectively. (mehr …)