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.
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.
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 …)
All low-income countries have the potential for dynamic economic growth. We know this because we have seen it happen repeatedly: a poor, agrarian economy transforms itself into a middle- or even high-income urban economy in one or two generations. The key is to capture the window of opportunity for industrialization arising from the relocation of light manufacturing from higher-income countries. That was true in the past and remains true for Africa today.
Traditionally strategies aimed at accelerating economic development in Africa have focused on strengthening domestic resource mobilization and attracting more external capital to fill the large financing gaps faced by the continent. Much less attention has been paid to the illicit export of Africa’s capital – capital flight. This approach has perpetuated Africa’s dependence on external financing while ‘normalizing’ the plunder of Africa’s wealth through unfair trade and illicit financial flows.
