Hauke Hartmann

Senior Expert

Bertelsmann Transformation Index

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Dr. Hauke Hartmann is Senior Expert at the Bertelsmann Stiftung and directs the project “Shaping Change – Strategies of Development and Transformation”.

Die letzten Beiträge

Rio de Janeiro downtown and Favéla/Sugarloaf/Pain de Sucre
Rio de Janeiro downtown, by dany13, via flickr.com, CC BY 2.0

Political Doping on the Eve of the Olympics

August 03, 2016 / Hauke Hartmann

Hardly any other country included in the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI) has been as diligent in combating corruption as Brazil. Indeed, the country’s prosecutors need all the resolve they can muster: Brazil’s political system has recently been shaken by several bribery scandals, which have contributed to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. An analysis. […]

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Presburg Castle in Bratislava
Presburg Castle in Bratislava, by Guillaume Speurt, via flickr.com, CC BY 2.0

Putting the Fox in Charge of the Hen House?

July 26, 2016 / Hauke Hartmann

On July 1 Slovakia took over the EU Council Presidency. Until now the government led by Prime Minister Fico refuses to assume responsibility in the refugee situation and attracted attention with islamophobic and populist comments. Is it now able to play the intermediator in Europe?  How strong is the consensus on values in present-day Europe? […]

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Protesters in São Paulo
Protesters in São Paulo call for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, by Agência Brasil, via commons.wikimedia.org, CC BY 3.0 br

Revisiting a Success Story

July 05, 2016 / Hauke Hartmann

Solid economic growth, combined with social policies: This was the recipe for success followed by many Latin American countries like Brazil. Now, the boom in exports has ended – all at the cost of social advances made in recent years. Is it time to question previous reform policies? Most economies in Latin America and the […]

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Construction workers at project construction site
Construction workers, Trung Son Hydropower project construction site, Vietnam. Photo: Mai Ky/World Bank. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Investing in Democracy

June 09, 2016 / Hauke Hartmann

Democratically governed countries usually offer better conditions for long-term foreign investment than autocratic ones – particularly more stability, greater legal certainty and more efficient governance. Thus, from a company perspective, investing in democracies does not only feel right, it is also the more rational choice. The Chinese government is losing out – big time – […]

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Construction workers along the Nile river in Luxor, Egypt © Dominic Chavez/World Bank (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Construction workers along the Nile river in Luxor, Egypt © Dominic Chavez/World Bank (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

How to Overcome Authoritarianism in the Arab Economy

June 30, 2015 / Hauke Hartmann

Getting rid of autocracy in the Middle East and North Africa is not just a challenge for politics. The economic sector too suffers under the stranglehold of the “nanny-state”. How to overcome it, depends very much on where you start from. From his own experience in office almost a year after the overthrow of the […]

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Kick it like Rousseff © Roberto Stuckert Filho/PR
Kick it like Rousseff © Roberto Stuckert Filho/PR
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