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Germany’s Commitment to Development: Good Is Not Good Enough for the G20 Chair
Anita Käppeli
March 23, 2017
Each year, CGD’s Commitment to Development Index (CDI) rates 27 of the world‘s richest countries on their commitment to sustainable and fair policies towards poorer countries. This blog looks at why Germany’s performance is only mediocre, why the Finns do so much better, and how Germany’s ...
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How Germany Copes with REDD+ Dilemmas
Frances Seymour
December 04, 2014
One of the most attractive features of the Cash-on-Delivery approach to development assistance is precisely that payments are made (only) for performance against agreed indicators of outcomes. 
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The Politics of German Finance for REDD+ - Working Paper 390
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Laura Kiff
December 04, 2014
The concept of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) and its framing of forest protection as a climate mitigation approach mark a clear paradigm shift – after decades of up-front financing of traditional ODA projects REDD+ follows the logic of ex-post payments fo...
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Six Reasons to Welcome New REDD+ Partnerships with Peru and Liberia
Frances Seymour
September 24, 2014
Tuesday’s Climate Summit in New York prompted a number of forest-related commitments, including a “Declaration on Forests” signed by 28 governments, 8 subnational governments, 35 companies, 16 indigenous peoples groups, and 45 NGO and civil society groups.