Verschiedene Szenarien zur Unterstützung und Anreizschaffung für privatwirtschaftliche Investitionen in fragile Länder Unter Beachtung der Fragestellung aus der Motion von Nationalrat Béglé ist das Ziel dieser Arbeit (1) die aktuelle Versicherungssituation für politische Risiken im Bereich von Investitionsgarantien auf nationaler und internationaler und im öffentlichen als auch privaten Sektor aufzuzeigen; (2) infolge der daraus resultierenden […]
Aid Effectiveness
Infrastructure Development and Pension Funds
Reducing the Infrastructure Gap through Pension Fund Investments This paper deals with the question of how the PIDG (Private Infrastructure Development Group) could incentivize pension funds to invest in infrastructure projects in developing countries and therefore contribute to close the infrastructure gap. First of all, the importance of infrastructure will be high-lighted. In a second step, […]
Impact Potential of Incubators for Employment and Income Creation
An analysis of the potential of incubators as a part of the development strategy of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in the SENAP region with a special focus on Tunisia, Tanzania, Zambia and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Summary “Incubators and their cousins, accelerators, provide hands-on training and mentoring, and often a physical space, […]
Sustainability 4.0 and Impact Readiness
How to promote true Sustainability and Impact Readiness? Through partnerships with the private sector it is possible to bundle public and private resources, expertise and know-how…. Read & Download studies
Lighthouse projects as a source of innovation
Achieving the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) will require joint efforts between public and private sector. This analysis looks at two major programs of SDC that can be models for cooperation with the private sector… Read & Download studies
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) Potential for Development Cooperation?
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) programs have proven to be an effective tool to fight poverty with an approach based on monetary incentives rewarding certain behaviour. This paper looks at how different CCT programs in Latin America work, and how they fare in terms of evaluation…. Read & Download studies
Job creation in Tunisia
The purpose of this paper is to identify a mix of industrial policies which leads to massive job creation. The Competitive Industries and Innovation Program (CIIP) was the starting point from which the elaboration of a further reaching and more comprehensive industrial policy measure mix was developed. – The case of Tunisia… Read & Download studies
The Transformation of Development Cooperation from Rome to Busan
Aid-effectiveness: von der Paris Declaration zu Busan: Ist die These von der lokalen “ownership” ein wirklich gangbarer Weg oder folgen die Geber einfach einem Gebot der “political correctness”? Seit der Paris Declaration sind einige Maengel an den Tag getreten…. Read & Download studies
Kohäsionspolitik: Kann die Schweiz von Norwegen lernen?
Kann die Schweiz von Norwegen lernen? Analyse des Programmansatzer im EEA/Norwegischen Finanzmechanismus 2009/14 und in der neuen EU Kohäsionspolitik 2014 – 2020… Read & Download studies
Participatory Video as a New Method for Measuring and Generating Empowerment
This paper explores the potential of participatory video for the measurement of empowerment. It is meant to be an evaluation of the potential, but also the possible threats of using PV as a tool to measure empowerment…. Read & Download studies
Die neue Ausrichtung der EU-Kohäsionspolitik 2014-2020
Welche wichtigen Konsequenzen könnte diese Neuorientierung haben für eine eventuelle Weiterführung des schweizerischen Erweiterungsbeitrags?… Read & Download studies
Haiti after the Disaster
This weak socio-economic and political situation in Haiti has aggravated the destruction and the losses of the devastating earthquake, which stroke Haiti on the 12th January 2011 with a magnitude of 7.0. Lessons learned from evaluations, consequences and recommendations for the future of Swiss Humanitarian Aid…. Read & Download studies
Does development aid have to be stopped?
A calm response to Moyo’s stimulating and provoking theses Formulate an argumentation how SDC or a multilateral organization as a reaction to the stimulating and provoking theses of Dambisa Moyo. Provocative and stimulating; these are the appropriate adjectives to describe the theses presented in Dambisa Moyo’s „Dead Aid – Why Aid Is Not Working and […]
The State as an Obstacle to Development?
Welche Rolle soll der Staat in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit spielen und wann wird er zu einem Entwicklungshemmnis? Welche Haltung sollte die DEZA ordnungspolitisch einnehmen?
Which role should the State play in development cooperation and when does the State become a constraint for development? What position should SDC take when it comes to the role of the State?… Read & Download studies
Paris declaration
Does /can the aid effectiveness agenda (Paris declaration) deliver what it has promised? Have donors (or the OECD DAC) targeted the right issues to increase aid efficiency?… Read & Download studies
Reshaping the multilateral landscape to deliver aid
Is the international architecure adequate? Is there a need for reforms? Do we need UNCTAD and WTO, UNDP and WB, IMF and WB?… Read & Download studies
The image of the World bank
Analyse der Wahrnehmung der Internationalen Finanzinstitutionen (IFIs, namentlich der Entwicklungsbanken) in der Schweiz, besonders bei den NGOs, dem Parlament und den Medien.
In order to find out how the World Bank is perceived we carried out a series of surveys targeting different stakeholder groups. We confronted people from the streets, students, experts, media representatives and exponents of Non- Governmental Organisations (NGOs)…. Read & Download studies