Development and
Cooperation

Poverty reduction

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

Financing lives

The largest single donor worldwide has halted its development cooperation: funding for USAID has been frozen for 90 days and is currently under review. These actions by the US president are already costing human lives. The global community must save what it ca...

Special needs

Dysfunctional support system

India's state-run system for providing educational opportunities to persons with disabilities is deeply flawed

Global warming

Be prepared

Climate change is challenging humanitarian aid in new ways

Strategies

Beyond aid – new ways forward?

Beyond aid: The need to redesign development cooperation

Relevant reading

An alternative model of governance

The post-2015 agenda should be based on an alternative model of global governance

Food security

Eradicate hunger in ten years

IFPRI states that evidence-based policies are needed to end hunger and malnutrition

Poverty

Redefining poverty

Valentin Lang and Hildegard Lingnau: The post-2015 agenda needs to redefine poverty and measure it in new ways

Inequality

Self-serving middle classes

Hopes that rising incomes automatically lead to more activism for good governance are probably exaggerated

Editorial

Radical and far-reaching

The huge challenges of drafting the post-2015 agenda

Inclusion

One billion people overlooked

Since disability affects more than 1 billion people, the issue belongs on the post-2015 agenda

Multilateral affairs

Value for money

Post 2015, the developing countries must improve governance, and the rich world must do more to provide global public goods