Publications

• M. Khulatt and Leppert, G. (2016), Health Systems Strengthening in German Development Cooperation: an Unfinished Business, DEval Policy Brief 3/2016, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn

• Lücking, K., S. Bettighofer und S. Freund (2016), „Systemprüfung" – Ein Impulsgeber für die Evaluierungspraxis in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit? DEval Policy Brief 2/2016, Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval), Bonn.

• H. Roxin, Schwedersky, T. and Polak, T. (2016), Development Workers - an Outdated Instrument for Development Cooperation?, DEval Policy Brief 1/2016, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn

Transnational thematic evaluation of the supporting of agricultural value chains with a focus on poverty reduction and food security. Case studies in Ghana and Burkina Faso.

• Kaplan, M., S. Bettighofer, S. Brüntrup-Seidemann and M. Noltze (2016), Agricultural Value Chains,
  German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.

Since summer 2015, the European Refugee Crisis has become one of the most prominent political topics on the continent, challenging not only individual European countries and governments but also the normative and political foundations of the European integration process. One relative broad consensus in the current debate within and between European countries is that the refugee crisis cannot be solved without improving the situation of those, who have desperately left their homes because of protracted violent conflict; no matter whether such improvement is within civil war torn countries or their neighbors. Consequently, the role of humanitarian aid and development cooperation as a way to help those fleeing from civil war has become not only a highly relevant foreign policy issue but also a core and sensitive domestic political issue throughout Europe.

• The article in Evaluation Connections

• Faust, J., H. Roxin (2016), Foreign Aid, the European Refugee Crisis and the Role of Evaluation - Beyond Micro Level Perspectives. In: Evaluation Connections, 42463.

The “diversity debit” hypothesis – that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on social, economic, and political outcomes – has been widely accepted in the literature. Indeed, with respect to public goods provision – the focus of this article – the conventional wisdom holds that a negative relationship between ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision is so well-established empirically that future research should abandon examination of whether such a relationship exists and focus instead on why it exists, that is, on the mechanisms underlying a negative relationship. This article challenges the conventional wisdom on empirical grounds. It demonstrates at the sub-national level strong evidence for a “diversity dividend” – that is, a positive relationship between ethnic heterogeneity and some measures of public goods provision, in particular welfare outcomes related to publicly provided goods and services. 

• The article in World Development

• Gisselquist, R.M., S. Leiderer und M. Niño-Zarazúa (2016) Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Goods Provision in Zambia: Evidence of a Subnational "Diversity Dividend". In: World Development, Vol. 78, 308-323.