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The Volkswagen Foundation has approved Phase II of the IWIM-launched Research Programme „Governance and Social Action in Sudan after the Peace Agreement of January 9, 2005”. The main research issues are how to make peace work at local state levels and in border regions of Sudan by reconstructing political, social and economic governance after the long civil war. Phase I was directed by Prof. Dr. Karl Wohlmuth as the head of the project and by Dr. Elke Grawert as the Project Coordinator. Phase II will be directed by Dr. Elke Grawert (as the head of the project and functioning as well as the project coordinator). Prof. Wohlmuth will also in Phase II participate in the research programme as one of the project partners along with professors from the Moi University in Eldoret and the University of Nairobi in Kenya, professors from the University of Khartoum, the Juba University, and the Ahfad University for Women in Sudan, and professors from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia (see details on Phase I of the programme on the IWIM homepage/Governance Sudan-Project). Prof. Wohlmuth supervises in this programme also a doctoral research project on “Investment Conditions and Institutional Development in South Sudan.”

IWIM staff has contributed to the Forum 1 - Economics and Business Studies - of the DAAD Africa Day at the University of Cologne on 21 November 2008 (see the presentations as PDFs -1-; -2-; -3-)

The African Development Perspectives Yearbook 2008, Volume 13, a flagship publication of IWIM, has been released these days by LIT Publishers (order now at LIT-Verlag). This volume is a comprehensive account of the “New Growth And Poverty Alleviation Strategies For Africa – International And Regional Perspectives”. Volume 14 of the African Development Perspectives Yearbook on Institutional and Local Perspectives is also expected soon. 28 authors from all over Africa, from Europe, India, and Canada assess in Volume 13 the issues of pro-poor growth.

IWIM has released a new Study on Globalisation and Convergence PDF Nr. 113...

Dr. Reuben Alabi, Research Fellow at the IWIM, is invited to speak at the International Conference and Training Workshop in Manila, Philippines more

Vortrag über "What Role for Developmental States in the 21st Century?", Dr. Dirk Bezemer (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), am 13. November 2008, 16 bis 18 Uhr, Werderstraße 73, Raum A 18.

Africa Day of DAAD/German Academic Exchange Service, University of Cologne, November 21-22, 2008:

Professor Karl Wohlmuth heads the Economics Forum on “Management of Change. Learning from structural, economic and institutional changes in Africa”. Professors, Lecturers and Students with experience in Africa and with contacts to African universities will report on opportunities, chances and possibilities to study and to research in Africa. Dr. Alabi, Humboldt Research Fellow at IWIM, other IWIM staff and IWIM associates will also participate. See for more information about the Africa Day: www.daad.de/afrikatag  sowie:  (Programm)

Information about the International Conference in Juba (Sudan), organized by the University of Juba (Professors J. Akol and S. Wassara) and the University of Bremen, IWIM (Dr. E. Grawert, Project Coodinator, Research Project "Governance and Social Action in Sudan after the CPA of January, 2005", sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation and by UNDP Sudan): media report...

The Research Group on African Development Perspectives Bremen has finalized the international research project "New Growth and Poverty Alleviation Strategies for Africa". Two volumes of the African Development Perspectives Yearbook are now published on this theme, and the books can be ordered by LIT Publishers (see the contents of Volume13... and of Volume14(Neu)..., and how to order the new books LIT-Verlag).

The Research Group is starting a new research project for the years 2009-2011 with the title "Overcoming Premature Deindustrialization Trends in Africa – Towards A New Industrial Policy for Africa". Interested researchers, research organizations and academic institutions are invited to contact Professor Karl Wohlmuth from the University of Bremen for a potential cooperation - by the Email address: wohlmuth@uni-bremen.de

Zusammenfassung des Vortrages des letzten Weltwirtschaftlichen Colloquiums vom 16. April 2008 von Herrn Prof. Dr. Haruo Takeuchi (Aichi University, Toyohashi, Japan): The Financial Safety Net after the Collapse of the Bubble Economy in Japan (als PDF).