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Development and cooperation

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Poverty Reduction

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

Ravi Khetarpal
Roli Mahajan

The Global NARS Consortium’s revolutionary approach to food security

To date, agricultural research has been mostly geared to issues relevant to high-income nations. Developing countries’ national agricultural research systems (NARS) deserve much more influence – and a new consortium is being established to serve that purpose. ...

Aid effectiveness
Harald Leibrecht

Trilateral cooperation makes sense

Why triangular cooperation of advanced nations with emerging-market and developing countries makes sense

Social media
Eva-Maria Verfürth

Help is coming via twitter

Social media have become indispensable for aid agencies

Maternal health
Nancy Ndungu

Payment after delivery

In Kenya, vouchers give poor women access to professional reproductive health services

Nuclear energy
Peter Hauff

Future on shaky ground

Risks of nuclear plants in Iran, Pakistan, Philippines

Poverty reduction
Dominik Hartmann

Meaningful help for self-help

Conditional cash transfers complement microcredit schemes in Brazil

Poverty
Martin Kämpchen

Precarious balance

Poverty is more than a mere lack of material goods

Utilities
Cathrine Schweikardt

Still not flowing

The many challenges of providing safe water to all

EU Green Paper
Peter Hauff

Call for realism

EU Commissioner Piebalgs wants to boost climate-friendly electric power in Africa

Microfinance
Oliver Schmidt

Tragedy in Andhra Pradesh

The reasons for the microfinance tragedy in Andhra Pradesh

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Lasting challenge

MDGs are already a success

Poverty Reduction

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

The Global NARS Consortium’s revolutionary approach to food security
Lessons to be learnt from Nepal’s recent excessive rains
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition
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Sex for fish: the exploitation of female fish traders in Malawi

Gender Equality

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

A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition
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A story is always part of the currents of its time
Sex for fish: the exploitation of female fish traders in Malawi
Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda

Governance

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

History did not end
Lessons to be learnt from Nepal’s recent excessive rains
How opium became a pillar of the British Empire
The forgotten Arab slave trade
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Sustainability

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

History did not end
Lessons to be learnt from Nepal’s recent excessive rains
How opium became a pillar of the British Empire
The forgotten Arab slave trade
Why you might find our newsletter useful