Sabine Donner

Senior Expert

Bertelsmann Transformation Index

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Sabine Donner is Senior Expert at the Bertelsmann Stiftung and directs the BTI project “Shaping Change – Strategies of Development and Transformation”.

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World Cup 2018 Confirms: Democracies Better at Playing Football

July 23, 2018 / Sabine Donner

One of the many rituals of a football World Cup is to take comprehensive stock after the tournament. So it’s time to review our Democracy World Cup and analyze our predictions. Were we right in our thesis that there is a connection between a country’s democratic quality and the performance of its national football team? […]

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Map of Republic of South Sudan through magnifying glass
Map of Republic of South Sudan through magnifying glass (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto/naruedo)

The World’s Youngest State Plunges into Renewed Violence

July 22, 2016 / Sabine Donner

The terrorist attack in Nice and events in Turkey have pushed developments in South Sudan out of Western media headlines. Yet five years after independence, the situation in the East African state remains tense. The most recent outbreaks of violence have driven more than 10,000 South Sudanese to flee their homes. After more than 20 […]

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Workers maintain the thermal power station at Takoradi, Ghana
Workers maintain the thermal power station at Takoradi, Ghana, by Jonathan Ernst/World Bank, via via flickr.com, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

“Lucky if you have power for 12 hours”

May 09, 2016 / Sabine Donner, Rasheed Draman

We spoke with Rasheed Draman about Ghana’s economic crisis, public discontent with service delivery and why his country will not fall victim to the “resource curse”. BTI Blog: Many observers – including BTI experts – have long considered Ghana a model of successful political and economic reform in sub-Saharan Africa. Now we see a significant […]

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Visit to The Chronicle & The Sunday News office in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Visit to The Chronicle & The Sunday News office in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, by David Brewer, via flickr.com, CC BY-SA 2.0

Mugabe “Increasingly Frail and Indecisive”

April 29, 2016 / Sabine Donner, Lloyd M. Sachikonye

In the midst of factional struggles over Mugabe’s unresolved succession, we talked with political scientist Lloyd M. Sachikonye about the legacy of political violence and his hopes for Zimbabwe’s future.   BTI Blog: After more than three decades, 92-year-old Robert Mugabe is still Zimbabwe’s strongman. Does his extraordinary capacity to maintain his grip on power constitute […]

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Skopje
Skopje, 11 August 2008. © David Bailey. CC BY-SA 2.0
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