Development Research Division | South African‐German Centre for Development Research and Criminal Justice

Objectives

• Characteristics and causes of growth deficits and unequal resource distribution in developing countries as well as strategic approaches and flanking socio-political measures for growth and the reduction of poverty,
• Roles of various players in the development process and their interaction
• Approaches to reform in the areas of domestic economy and international economic relations, public administration (good governance, fight against corruption, and reorganisation) and social as well as political systems.

The objectives of the division will mainly be implemented within the framework of cooperative study programmes through joint research, teaching and mentoring. At present, such cooperative study programmes are being realized in the MA programme in Development Management (Bochum Programme), the MA programme in Development Studies (ISD), the MPA programme (SoG) and the PhD programme in International Development Studies. In order to further promote cooperative research, teaching and mentoring the Division will award scholarships to excellent applicants from Sub-Sahara Africa for a period of study in these joint programmes; it will also offer training in soft skills and German language courses for the scholarship holders of the centre, organise summer schools for the MA students of the Division at the RUB and the UWC and arrange academic conferences of the Division at the UWC and at other universities in the region.