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Governance

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

Isaac Sagala

Why Kenya is on fire

For weeks, Kenya has been experiencing a wave of protests led by young people, triggered by an unpopular finance bill. No one can really say they didn’t see this coming. What is unfolding in Kenya is a lesson in what happens when the debt crisis escalates not ...

Unrest in Egypt
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Role model Erdogan

Turkey under Erdogan could serve as an example to Arab countries – but Europe failed to embrace him

Food security
Peter Hauff

Pre-programmed hunger

Food prices keeping rising

Comment
Siddharth Narrain

Post-colonial authoritarianism

Binayak Sen is a post-colonial victim of a repressive law from India’s colonial past

Gender
Jinnat Ara
Syed Abdul Hamid

Against the odds

Women entrepreneurs face gender-spefic challenges – for instance in Bangladesh

Governance
Winfried Borowczak
Friedrich Kaufmann

Private party

Mozambique is not an open access society

Comment
Vladimir Antwi-Danso

Reconstruct African governance

Gbagbo must not be allowed to prevail, but Cote d'Ivoire’s crisis is about more than only big-man politics

Investment climate
Jenny Luesby

Enlightening entrepreneurs

The Business Daily, a young Kenyan newspaper, helps to improve economic fortunes

Human rights
Rowland Jide Macaulay
Friederike Wyrwich

“We are not asking for sanctions”

Campaigning for the rights of homosexual Christians in Nigeria

Statistics
Oliver Zwirner

Looking for new yardsticks

European Initiative „Beyond GDP“

Democracy
Cathrine Schweikardt

Clear rules and methods

New IDEA handbook on electoral justice

Poverty Reduction

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

Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector
Rebounding tourism set to support Sri Lanka’s economic recovery
Why tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka peaked in 2018
Mexico’s first female president
Prioritise international solidarity over national interests

Gender Equality

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

Mexico’s first female president
Women-led businesses suffer most
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Why the acronym BIPoC does not have to explain anything
Defending the progress made

Governance

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

Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts
ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities
Imagine top judges in Africa or Asia ruling like the US Supreme Court

Sustainability

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

Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts
ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities
Imagine top judges in Africa or Asia ruling like the US Supreme Court