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The EU should seize the day: It should issue parts of the Recovery Instrument debt as green bonds and thereby boost that burgeoning market. But it is important to manage expectations: Issuing green bonds alone will not ‚green‘ recovery spending. This will depend on the...

Good participation means that all parts of society are heard and that solutions are based on a variety of diverse opinions and interests.

The funds of the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility should be spent on two objectives – kickstart the European economy and make it more resilient to future crises. However, there can be a trade-off between rapid recovery from the current crisis and long-term, sustainable...

How widespread is populism one year before the 2021 federal elections? And how has the corona crisis shaped public opinion? Our analysis shows that populist attitudes have become much less pronounced and widespread, above all in the political center. At the same time,...

The megatrend report “The coronavirus transformation” examines central changes to the megatrends of  globalization and digitalization as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic. It also illuminates interactions between these megatrends that are particularly affected by the...

Every two years, the Globalization Report examines how well individual countries have benefited from the progressing globalization since 1990. The influence of changes of the respective degree of globalization on the real gross domestic product per capita of the country is...

In 2011, the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Bertelsmann Stiftung launched the model project, “Kein Kind zurücklassen! Kommunen in NRW beugen vor” (“Leave no child behind! Municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia providing equal opportunities for all...

On September 7 2020, Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan, joined an online conversation hosted by Open Society Foundations, King Baudouin Foundation, European Movement International and Bertelsmann Stiftung. She discussed the digital innovations...

Wie gelingt der Wandel zu Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft? Antworten auf diese Frage gibt zum neunten Mal in Folge der „Transformation Index BTI 2020“ der Bertelsmann Stiftung. Damit liegt erneut eine globale Analyse mit selbsterhobenen Daten zur Qualität von Demokratie,...

The Globalization Report 2020 shows that advancing globalization has increased material prosperity at the macroeconomic level, in particular in industrialized countries, between 1990 and 2018.