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Mexico as an “Emerging Donor”

By Jeanne Lätt, Research Fellow, DIE
Policy Brief No 18 – March 2011
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Climate Finance in Bangladesh: Ongoing Challenges

By Merylyn Hedger, Institute of Development Studies, Overseas Development Institute
Opinion No 8 – March 2011

South Africa as a Development Partner in Africa

By Sven Grimm, Director, Centre for Chinese Studies, Stellenbosch University
Policy Brief – March 2011

The New Landscape Of Economic Governance - Strengthening the Role of Emerging Economies

By Jodie Keane and Dirk Willem te Velde
Working Paper No 13 - March 2011
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Arab Donors: Implications for Future Development Cooperation

By Lisa Denney with Leni Wild,
Policy Brief No. 13 – March 2011
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Climate Finance in Bangladesh: Lessons for Development Cooperation and Climate Finance at National Level

By Merylyn Hedger
Working Paper No 12 - February 2011
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Commissioner Piebalgs on coherence between energy security and development policies

Andris Piebalgs, EU Commissioner for Development, gave a keynote speech at the last EDC 2020 Briefing to Parliamentarians, which took place in Brussels on 9 February 2011.

European Good Governance Policies Meet China in Africa: Insights from Angola and Ethiopia

By Christine Hackenesch
Working Paper No 10 - February 2011
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The Challenge from Within: New EU Donors and European Development Cooperation

By Erik Lundsgaarde, Research Fellow, DIE
Policy brief No 10 - March 2011
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Engaging with China in Africa –Trilateral Cooperation as an Option?

By Sven Grimm, Director, Centre for Chinese Studies, Stellenbosch University
Policy brief No 9 - February 2011
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Shaping Europe's Global Role event: key messages and highlights

The final conference of the European Development Cooperation to 2020 project (EDC 2020) took place on 10 February 2011 in Brussels. The EDC 2020 team of researchers presented their results and debated Europe's global role in development cooperation. Read more and listen to the presentations

EU Development and Energy Policy Urgently Need Coordinating

The EDC2020 project found that EU development and energy policy urgently need coordinating. At present they often work at odds to each other. This will be a major issue in future years, where the EU needs to reform its policies to make a major impact. Read the document.





European Climate and Development Financing Before Cancun

By Imme Scholz, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für
Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Opinion No. 7 - December 2010



EDC2020 E-newsletter No. 9 online
The October 2010 edition of the EDC2020 e-newsletter is now available online.
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European Development Cooperation In Between the Local and the Global

In European Development Cooperation, In Between the Local and the Global, contributors offer valuable new insights into the established aid instruments such as food aid, support for energy projects in Africa and security-related development assistance in the programmes of some smaller European donors, as well as an overview of these new donor programmes.
By Paul Hoebink (ed.)

Roundtable

The EU and Climate Change Policy, on the sidelines or back in the game ?
25 May 2010, Bonn, Germany


Events
31 March 2011: Workshop on Climate Change: How can national delivery of climate finance be secured effectively? London, UK
9-10 February 2011: Briefing To Parliamentarians on coherence between energy security and development and EDC 2020 Final Event on Shaping Europe's Global Role, Brussels, Belgium