Development and
Cooperation

Contributors

At D+C/E+Z, we are proud of our international network of authors. It is particularly important to us to be a platform for voices from the global south. Some authors contribute on a regular basis, others don't. Here you can find information about the people behind the contributions.

Hans Dembowski

euz.editor@dandc.eu

was D+C/E+Z's editor-in-chief from 2004 to 2024.

All articles of Hans Dembowski

Digital-waste management

TV sets for poor households in Ghana

A Ghanaian businessman runs two companies that tackle the problem of digital waste. He is in competition with informal waste recycling, which has a poor reputation because of environmental hazards and poor working conditions.

West Africa

Trump is encouraging African despots

Ghanaian scholar assesses relevance of USAID and ECOWAS

Social media

European democracies under attack from North America

The time has come to apply the EU’s Digital Services Act with determination

On our own behalf

Our editor-in-chief says goodbye

Looking back after 21 years at the helm of D+C/E+Z.

Our view

The era of hubristic capitalism

Unrestrained market dynamics favour oligarchs, but do not provide public goods as needed.

Modern society

Time constraints make democracy look dysfunctional

Democratic governance is increasingly under attack as elected policymakers struggle to keep up with fast changes in different spheres of society.

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Poverty alleviation

Additional jobs mean additional incomes

Stefan Dercon of Oxford University explains why low-income countries cannot develop without economic growth and in what kind of settings growth-oriented policies are implemented.

Islamist ideologies

Fundamentally different fundamentalists

The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria shows that Islamist groups do not necessarily form any kind of united front.

Human rights

How indigenous spirituality matters

Frank Schwabe, the commissioner for religious freedom of Germany’s federal government, elaborates why the rights of indigenous peoples deserve respect.

Our view

Self-righteous aggressiveness versus universal values

Religion can be used in politics in two fundamentally different ways, and only one serves global cooperation for a sustainably liveable planet.

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