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"The comparative study on Development Research (DR) in Germany and three other European
countries was commissioned by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and
Development (BMZ). It gives an overview of the available resources, the institutional setting
and the governance of DR in the four countries. The paper will neither provide an indepth
evaluation of the DR realized by the four countries nor is it embedded in a more
general discussion of the growing role of research for development cooperation.
The understanding of the term DR varies largely in the four countries. In the most
common and broadest definition DR is any kind of research with relevance for development
and developing countries. Thus, a large number of disciplines may contribute to DR.
A more restricted understanding defines DR as mainly social science based research on
global and local processes of cultural, demographic, economic, environmental, political,
technological and social change in low and middle income parts of the world. DR covers a
wide array of applications, from feeding the academic search for new or improved knowledge
to resolving immediate problems formulated by policy makers. In three of the countries,
strengthening of research capabilities in the South is considered as a constitutive element of
the promotion of DR." (author's abstract)
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