Contents April issue

Editorial

Eva-Maria Verfürth:
Cities need good ideas to find infrastructure solutions

Monitor

Africa could use more German investments | Rio+20: an assessment of 25 years of environmental policymaking at the global level | Consequences of military intervention in Libya | World Water Forum in Marseille | In brief


Focus: Urban infrastructure

Bimbola Oyesola:
Daunting challenges in Lagos

Somsook Boonyabancha and Diana Mitlin:
Better homes for the urban poor in Asia

Interview with Anita Reddy:
Why development is likely to benefit from twinning cities

Sunita Narain:
Urban settlements cannot simply flush

Caroline Triml:
Toilets, a hushed-up issue

Mirja Michalscheck:
Amman’s thirst and the scope for using less water

Monika Wiebusch:
Coping with climate change

Alan C. Robles:
Manila is stuck in a jam


Tribune

Petra Pinzler:
Growth scepticism I: What research tells us about the economics of happiness

Barbara Unmüssig:
Growth scepticism II: One more attempt to save the planet?

Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler and Rainer Thiele:
Little progress on donor harmonisation

Michael Bohnet:
Hidden links between scholarship and policymaking


Debate

Comments on the consequences of drought in Gambia and the Sahel region, on the financial sector’s underdeveloped interest in women as clients and on what the UN’s Responsibility to Protect means in view of escalating violence in Syria | Letters