Forschungsprojekte | GIGA Institut für Afrika-Studien

A Dangerous Liaison? Ethnicity, Natural Resources and Civil Conflict Onset
German Research Foundation (DFG) | 2012 - 2016
ANTICORRP: Anti-Corruption Policies Revisited – Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption
EC, 7th Framework Programme (FP7) | 2012 - 2017
Causes of Hybrid Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa – Systematic Comparison
German Research Foundation (DFG) | 2009 - 2013
Civil Society Organizations as Supporters of Authoritarian Rule? A Cross-Regional Comparison (Vietnam, Algeria, Mozambique)
German Research Foundation (DFG) | 2013 - 2016
Climate Change Mitigation and Poverty Reduction (CliMiP) – Trade-Offs or Win-Win Situations?
VolkswagenStiftung | 2013 - 2016
Contested Leadership in International Relations – Power Politics in South America, Eastern Europe, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
VolkswagenStiftung, Schumpeter Fellowship | 2010 - 2018
Determinanten der Nachfrage nach Mikroversicherungen in Ghana
Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet), DZ BANK Stiftung | 2008-2011
Do Diasporas Contribute to the Persistence of Authoritarian Rule? Responses of Eritrean citizens abroad to transnational governance
German Research Foundation (DFG) | 2018 - 2020
Education (In)Security in the Central African Republic
Knowledge Management Fund | 05/2018 - 11/2018
Employment, Empowerment and Living Standard
KfW Entwicklungsbank | 2012 - 2015
Entrepreneurial Chinese Migrants and Petty African Entrepreneurs: Local Impacts of Interaction in Urban West Africa (Ghana and Senegal)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) | 2011 - 2013
Governing People's Safety in Areas of Extremely Limited Statehood: South Sudan and the Central African Republic
German Research Foundation (DFG), part of CRC 700 | 2014 - 2017
Ineffective Sanctions? External Sanctions and the Persistence of Autocratic Regimes
Fritz Thyssen Foundation | 2011 - 2017
Institutions for Sustainable Peace - Comparing Institutional Options for Divided Societies and Post-Conflict Countries
Leibniz Competition | 2012 - 2017
International Diffusion and Cooperation of Authoritarian Regimes - IDCAR-Network
Leibniz Competition | 2014 - 2018
Judicial (In)dependence in New Democracies. Courts, Presidents and Legislatures in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
Leibniz Competition | 2011 - 2016
Landscape-Level Assessment of the Ecological and Socio-Economic Functions of Rainforest Transformation Systems in Sumatra (Indonesia) (part of CRC 990)
German Research Foundation (DFG), SFB 990 (DFG) | 2016 - 2019
Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and Sustainable Development
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) | 2010 - 2013
Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Data, Patterns, Impacts, and Policies
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), European Commission | 2013 - 2018
Micro- and Small Enterprises in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Constraints
German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) | 2013-2015
Mitigating Trade-offs between Economic and Ecological Functions and Services through Certification
German Research Foundation (DFG), part of CRC 990 (project C04) | 2016 - 2019
Performance and Dynamics of Micro and Small Firms in Developing Countries
| 2015 - 2018
Political Regimes, Reduction of Poverty and Inequality
EC, 7th Framework Programme (FP7) | 2012 - 2017
Poverty and Inequality Dynamics and the Role of Social Policies
EC, 7th Framework Programme (FP7), ESRC/DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research | 2012 - 2017
Power-Sharing in Post-Conflict Situations: On the Institutional Prerequisites for Lasting Peace
German Research Foundation (DFG) | 2012 - 2015
Regional Powers Network
Leibniz Competition, Fritz-Thyssen Foundation, GIGA | 2008 - 2018
Religion and Conflict: On the Ambivalence of Religious Factors in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) , German Israeli Foundation | 2008 - 2018
The (In)stability of Presidential Term Limits in Africa and Latin America: Assessing the Impact of Tenure-Rule Reforms on the Political Regime
German Research Foundation (DFG) | 2017 - 2020
The Influence of Religion on Sustainable Development
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) | 2015 - 2018
The Land Matrix
German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) | 2012 - 2015
The Local Arena of Power Sharing: Patterns of Adaptation or Continued Disorder
German Research Foundation (DFG) | 2011 - 2016
The Productivity Effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) of North–South and South–South Firms: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa
German Research Foundation (DFG) | 2012 - 2016
The Rise of Middle Classes in Emerging and Developing Countries: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences
GIGA Research Platform South Africa, Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. (Villigst) | 2016 - 2018
The Termination of International Sanctions: Causes, Processes and Domestic Consequences
German Research Foundation (DFG) | 2018 - 2021
Transparency, Dynamics and Impacts of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions (LSLA): Global and Local Evidence
Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) | 2013 - 2014
Unlocking potential: Tackling economic, institutional and social constraints of informal entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa
World Bank Multi Donor Trust Fund / Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | 2010-2013
War that Produces Peace? Military Victory and Sustainable Peacebuilding
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | 2014 - 2016
West African Traders as Translators Between Chinese and African Urban Modernities
German Research Foundation (DFG) | 2013 - 2018
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