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Sustainability
Poverty
Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau

New poverty line better reflects reality

World Bank updated key indicator for measuring poverty

Islam
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Neglected heritage

What people should know about Islam’s pluralistic legacy

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Russia and Saudi Arabia have a lot in common

Two desperate regimes benefit from Syrian turmoil

Global governance
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

At a crossroads

What the WTO’s Nairobi summit achieved and what it did not achieve

International development banks
Bruno Wenn
Bruno Wenn
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“Sensible division of labour”

New and old IFIs can – and should – cooperate in a constructive manner

Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Can progress be bad?

Report of Survival International reveals many drawbacks indigenous people are exposed to

Private sector
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Better skilled employees

Why it makes sense for companies to invest in their staff’s skills

Urban environment
Sunita Narain

No car is clean

Taking half the cars off the road in Delhi helps to reduce air pollution

Refugees
Theresa Krinninger

Reducing what makes people flee

Experts from the DIE think tank want conflict prevention and peacekeeping to be at the centre of development policies

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Muslim thought can be less authoritarian than mostly assumed

Reviving Islam’s legacy of pluralism and tolerance

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Poverty Reduction

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
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

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.

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
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”

Sustainability

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
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”