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Sustainability

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

Karol Kempa
Michael König-Sykorova
Ulf Moslener
Oliver Schenker

Phasing out fossil fuels with climate finance

Fossil-fuel subsidies can help to keep everyday goods affordable. However, they also undermine climate protection and burden tight national budgets. Climate finance, if applied well, helps to reform subsidy systems in a socially just way.

Climate protection

Why development policy matters

Why development policy matters

Healthy competition

Healthy competition

Controversy over Asian Development Bank

Controversy over Asian Development Bank

Afghanistan: fewer children dying

Afghanistan: fewer children dying

Vulture funds

Public debt relief can benefit private-sector creditors

Public debt relief can benefit private-sector creditors

World Bank Forum

Experts discuss African development opportunities

Experts discuss African development opportunities

UN reform

Two documents of dissent

Two documents of dissent

Donor policy

Auditors criticise US food aid as bureaucratic and…

Auditors criticise US food aid as bureaucratic and inefficient

Equal opportunity à la Wolfowitz

Equal opportunity à la Wolfowitz

Paradigm shift

Paradigm shift

Poverty Reduction

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

India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast
BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies
When a relatively strong African country is struggling on all fronts
When qualifications don’t decide your career
Whose development?

Gender Equality

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

Defending the progress made
Pakistan’s politically assertive women
Consequences of cyclone Freddy
Jobless due to epilepsy
Why ODA is better than its reputation in donor countries

Governance

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

Why Africa is caught between two stools with BRICS
Phasing out fossil fuels with climate finance
Chinese funded steel mill displaces locals in Zimbabwe
India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast
From colonial division to bloody conflict

Sustainability

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

Why Africa is caught between two stools with BRICS
Phasing out fossil fuels with climate finance
Chinese funded steel mill displaces locals in Zimbabwe
India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast
From colonial division to bloody conflict