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Governance

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

Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

Waithood – endless adolescence

The future belongs to young people. They must be empowered to assume responsibility. Far too often, however, they lack prospects. It is encouraging that, all over the world, many want to take their fate into their own hands.

Asia
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Multilateral banks honeymoon

The first co-financing effort looks promising, but ADB and AIIB may yet become fierce adversaries

Social and environmental standards
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Let’s race to the top

NGOs praise ADB for environmental and social safeguards but want better implementation

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

West must uphold civil liberties

The challenge of Donald Trump and other authoritarian leaders

Digitalisation
Nanjira Sambuli

Providing and limiting freedom

Digital technologies have repercussions on human rights

Web services
Nanjira Sambuli

Free of charge, but limited in scope

The shortcomings of Facebook’s Free Basics

Comment
Jennifer Dube

Robbed of a role model

South African President Jacob Zuma rocks the confidence of the whole region

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

ADB and AIIB share interest in infrastructure

Changing landscape of development finance

Senior citizens
Humphrey Nkonde

Homes for the elderly

Zambia’s homes for the aged face funding difficulties

International cooperation
Sylvia Schenk
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“Basic principles of compliance”

How to fight corruption in sport

International cooperation
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Monkey business

Human infants are more interested in cooperation than young apes

Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
Modern dowry payment in Kenya

Governance

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

Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire

Sustainability

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

Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire