Contents November issue

Editorial

Hans Dembowski:
Apart from global warming, there are other good reasons for phasing out fossil fuels
 

Monitor

OECD Development Cooperation Report proposes ways to raise more funding | Civil-society organisations call for international solidarity in health care | African artists must do without or only inadequate skills training | Nowadays: Libyan education sector is being eroded in civil strife | In brief | Politically smart and locally led aid | Afghanistan’s future


Focus: New energy

Anthony J. Jude:
Why subsidies for fossil fuels are destructive

Interview with Imme Scholz:
“Skip out-dated technologies”

Tetsuro Yoshida and Noriko Shimizu:
National policies do not necessarily serve global goals

Do Thi Bich Ngoc:
Rural challenges in Vietnam

Karim Okanla:
Benin depends on firewood – and smuggled petrol from Nigeria

Marlis Kees:
Assessing the market potential of fuel-efficient cookstoves

Toni Kaatz-Dubberke:
Cape Verde on course to become a world leader

Interview with Loay Mudhoon:
How the oil curse is hurting the Middle East and North Africa

Achim Neumann:
Review essay: relevant reading on the transition to renewable energy


Tribune

Helmut Baumgarten and Hendrik Blome:
Humanitarian logistics: challenges and opportunities

David Majed:
Why migrants‘ children often prove good at development work


Debate

Interview with Imam Muhsin Hendricks: “One cannot shed one’s sexual orientation” | Comment on Ebola epidemic