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Development and cooperation

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Digital monthly

7/2022

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Traditional medicine
Ben Ezeamalu
Ben Ezeamalu

Why many Africans must rely on informal health care

Traditional medicine is often inadequate, though it does work in many cases and is comparatively cheap

Pakistan
Imran Mukhtar
Imran Mukhtar

Some poor people depend on garbage scavenging in Islamabad

In Pakistan, informal waste pickers manage about 50 % of municipal waste

Gender equality
Oliver Schmidt

Women are particularly disadvantaged in the informal sector

Gender equality matters in both the formal and the informal economy, for example when it comes to finance

Poverty Reduction

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

Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
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Financing development and climate goals
Pakistan’s rural infrastructure is inadequate
The Global NARS Consortium’s revolutionary approach to food security

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
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Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition
A story is always part of the currents of its time

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust
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Sustainability

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

Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust
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