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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

ODA under attack

Populist forces in rich countries are calling development aid into question. Drastic cuts are looming in many places. Efforts are needed to improve communication and restore trust.

Infrastructure
Rupert Neudeck

When the sky cries

An infrastructural project of water collection in Ethiopia

Governance
Arnold Dunai
Oliver Wagener

Indispensable checks and balances

Cambodia needs stronger legislative bodies

Liberia
Till Blume

Liberia’s difficult reconstruction

Success and failure of President Johnson-Sirleaf in Liberia

Comment
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Ignorant of global affairs

Exaggerated criticism of development efforts per se

Administrative reform
Tom Pätz
Günther Taube

Service orientation and transparency

Ethiopian civil-service reform

Biodiversity
Meike Scholz

“Bonn Mandate” after years of grid-lock

The results of the biodiversity conference in Bonn

Afghanistan
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Fresh money, troubled administration

Donors pledge billions to Afghanistan

Civil service reform
Ian Mamuya

What has gone wrong?

Tanzania’s disappointing reform programme in the public sector

Civil service reform
Michael Klein

“Achievements in less than perfect conditions”

Economic progess under less than perfect administration

Civil service reform
Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles

Whose service?

Civil-service nightmares in the Philippines

Poverty Reduction

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

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
A brief history of Nepal’s tourism industry

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.

ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities
Imagine top judges in Africa or Asia ruling like the US Supreme Court
Turning point in sanctions policy
Advantages and pitfalls of sanctions

Sustainability

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

ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities
Imagine top judges in Africa or Asia ruling like the US Supreme Court
Turning point in sanctions policy
Advantages and pitfalls of sanctions