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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. ...

Economic growth
Heike Bürskens

Private sector crucial to Millennium successes

For a successful poverty reduction and climate protection the private sector is required – urgently

Interview
Dirk Niebel

“Hunger can be halved by 2015”

German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development is about to formulate a follow-up strategy for the MDGs for the years until 2030

Individual accountability
Helmut Reifeld

Emergency relief or a new beginning?

Development agencies must emphasise democracy, markets and individual responsibilty

Rapid appraisal
Agnes Abuom

Where we are

Rapid appraisal of Millennium Development Goals

World affairs
Jens Martens

Urgent issues

Jens Martens of the Global Policy Forum Europe wants new mulitlateral goals for policymakers

Donor policies
Frank Bliss

Focus on minorities

Donors are neglecting the disadvantaged minorities of developing countries

Distorted data
Clemens Spiess

Indian dilemma

According to official data, poverty affects more people in India than assumed in the past

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Market and state failure

All developing countries should be making generic drugs

Comment

No time to catch one’s breath

Guatemala is increasingly struggling with freak weather

Roots of poverty
Franziska Baur

Risky pregnancies

Slow progress on maternal mortality

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