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Sustainability

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

Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector

Mexico owes many of its tourist attractions to its wealth of indigenous communities. It is important that they are included in the country’s tourism industry in a sustainable, respectful and empowering way.

World trade order

Something rotten in the food system

The current world trade order is skewed against the hungry and needy

Food

Need in a land of plenty

In spite of the DRC's huge agricultural potential, many people lack vital nutrients

Hunger

No food, no health

Malnutrition is a major problem among children in Tanzania. A physician explains why this hampers national development.

Health care

“Silent Murder”

Medicines are too expensive for poor people in developing countries, but local production could make a difference

Nowadays

Escaping poverty

Nowadays: a grassroots entrepreneur escapes poverty

Public finance

Patriotic funds

African Development Bank considers Diaspora bonds promising for sub-Saharan governments

World market

Low wages are not all

Latin America is leading according to a new ranking of promising markets and potential production sites

Multilateral policymaking

Quantum leap

Dirk Niebel says the next development goals must go beyond the MDG agenda and include sustainability

Trade union

No Revolution

Foxconn to improve workers’ representation a bit, but labour relations in China will not change dramatically

Entrepreneurship

Village money

In Honduras, the promotion of entrepreneurship based on locally available assets is boosting development