Ist Bildung ein zentraler Motor von Entwicklungsprozessen? Diese Frage wird in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit traditionell mit "Ja" beantwortet. Die wissenschaftliche Diskussion ist hier jedoch differenzierter und verweist durchaus auf fehlende oder unerwünschte Resultate von Bildungsprozessen. Die vorliegende Policy Note möchte die Frage der entwicklungspolitischen Wirkungen von Bildung erneut [...]

Economic development is composed of many multifaceted processes, but growth in the technological capabilities of locally-owned firms is essential. Hence, it is crucial to understand how and why local firms invest in building technological capabilities. As a starting point, we need to know which technological capabilities local firms have and how they can be conceptualized, operationalized, and [...]

Structural transformation involves moving the economy away from a set of assets based on primary products exploited by unskilled labor toward knowledge-based assets exploited by skilled labor. The term technological capabilities refers to these knowledge-based assets - the technical, organizational and managerial skills necessary to achieve international levels of efficiency and quality. The [...]

While Vocational Education and Training (VET) was almost absent from earlier international development frameworks, the Agenda 2030 and its SDGs attach greater importance to it. This Briefing Paper analyses the VET and SDG debates from different angles. In the first part, the paper traces the history of VET in international development cooperation and summarises the discussion on current VET [...]

Home Publikationen Aktueller Kommentar Aktueller Kommentar April 2019 Die internationale Entwicklungshilfestatistik – auf dem besten Weg in die Irrelevanz Am 10. April 2019 hat das Development Assistance Committe (DAC) der OECD die Pressemeldung über die vorläufigen Daten der Official Development Assistance (ODA) 2018 veröffentlicht. Der leichte Rückgang bzw. die Stagnation der öffentlichen Mittel [...]

Structural transformation and export diversification into higher value-added products and away from primary commodities remain major development objectives for low-income countries (LICs). Sectors such as apparel or leather products have traditionally been gateways to export diversification for LICs and are generally regarded as first steps for developing countries embarking on an export-oriented [...]