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Sustainability
Foreign trade
Clara Brandi
Dominique Bruhn

Exports as drivers of growth

Relevant reading: exports contribute to driving growth – but they need to be the right sort of exports

Beauty
Damilola Oyedele

Embracing blackness

Many African women stop using relaxers on their hair

Youth unemployment
Helmut Danner

A ticking time bomb

Kenyan authors analyse the problem of youth unemployment in their country and how it can be tackled

weltwärts volunteers
Ribhu Vohra
Chandrah Nusselein
Darius Meissner
Kaya Schloessler

WasteLess teaches children to waste less

Leaders of environmental NGO from India discuss their work with German weltwärts volunteers

Comment
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Climate change deserves top-level attention

El Niño aggravated heat and drought this year

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Afterthoughts concerning the G20 summit in China

Technocrats begin to worry about people’s welfare

Aid effectiveness
Peter Nunnenkamp
Rainer Thiele

Modest impact

Low-income countries are not the main beneficiaries of aid for trade

Political environment
Christoph Kannengießer

Stability promotes economic development

Upswing requires the right environment in a developing country

Government guarantees
Christoph Kannengießer

New strategy for Africa

Private-sector involvement is vital for Africa's economic development

Foreign trade
Friedrich Kaufmann
Winfried Borowczak

Mozambique’s foreign trade weakness

Why Mozambique is one of the world’s least competitive countries

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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