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Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

“Dialogue of life”

Michael Rodrigo was a Catholic priest who campaigned for religious dialogue in Sri Lanka. He called his efforts the “dialogue of life”.

International relations

Gaining from closeness to China

The relationship between Malawi and China is getting stronger

Stirring stories from India’s rural heartland

Uday Prakash is an interesting author who writes in Hindi

Civil strife

Shifting alliances

Saleh’s death does not indicate a fast end of Yemen’s civil war

Government campaign

The slandering of a philanthropist

The vilification of George Soros at the hands of the Hungarian government is baffling

Government revenues

Undermining statehood

How structural adjustment and double tax agreements have contributed to weakening public finances in Africa

Domestic resource mobilisation

Double standards

African countries should raise more tax revenues, but OECD governments are not really helping

Global warming

The case against fossil fuels

Public finances must serve to reduce greenhouse gases

Public budgets

Harmful government expenditure

Fossil fuel subsidies are unsustainable in both environmental and budgetary terms

Public finance

High time to get organised

On their own, the rich nations are no longer able to regulate tax issues internationally

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.