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Sustainability
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

Global governance

Climate refugees

Climate change is causing displacement, and the international community lacks rules on the issue

Commodities

To whom belong the bounties of the world?

The scramble for resources poses many ethical questions – and cooperation is anything but unusual

International Finance Institutions

Most relevant review

The World Bank is reviewing its social and environmental Safeguards – and civil society organisations fear dilution

Intervention

Françafrique à la Hollande

Mali needs more than military assistance, and nation-building is a long-term affair

Crisis prevention

Evaluation and quality control

For reasons of politics and methodology, it is especially challenging to evaluate peacebuilding operations

Institutions

From NGO to commercial bank

From NGO to formal bank: Acleda in Cambodia has a stunning success story to tell

Global warming

Disaster statistics

Munich Re's disaster statistics show that climate change is making storms, floods and draughts ever more likely.

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