Development and
Cooperation

E-Paper Archive

Poverty reduction

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

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 it damages the environment, exploits workers and exposes them to harmful substances.

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by Hans Dembowski
Youth unemployment

The right business environment

To fight youth unemployment, Asia needs more jobs, not more schools

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by Jesus Felipe
India

Santal worries

The young generation of India's Adivasis struggles with tough problems other youth do not have

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by Boro Baski
Boro Baski
Economic policy

Stuck in informal employment

Prominent Indian economists emphasise indispensability of growth in new book on development policy

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by Hans Dembowski
Poverty reduction

Lessons from failure

Disappointing basic-income-grant project in Namibia

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by Rigmar Osterkamp
Nowadays

Direct aid

Grassroots initiative supports Syrian refugees in Beirut

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by Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar
Water

Fleeing drought

Climate change: In Nepal, entire villages must relocate because water scarcity is getting worse

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by Daniel Bernet
Debt relief

Historical model

Debt report by German NGOs reconsiders West German past and assesses current risks in developing world

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by Sandra Abild
International civil society

Five principles

Civil-society organisations from around the world demand UN development agenda with more bite

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by Hans Dembowski
Land grabbing

Damaging investments

Oxfam warns of increasing land grabbing and wants the World Bank to halt investments

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by Sandra Abild
Editorial

Appropriate business environment

The beautyful but challenging vision of integrated rural development

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by Hans Dembowski