Development and
Cooperation

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.

Pharmacists in development cooperation

Essential experts

Pharmacists without borders do important work in aid missions and projects worldwide

Cancer

Unaffordable treatment

For people in developing countries, most cancer drugs are unaffordable

Patents

Intellectual property versus health care

Insistence on medical patents costs lives, especially in the global south

Covid-19

Malawi refuses expired vaccines

Malawi says ‘no’ to WHO advice to hold on to expired Covid-19 vaccines

Our view

Foundations of broad-based prosperity

How the middle class matters in a country’s development

Growing prosperity

Middle-class lifestyles start with $ 10 per person and day

The middle class is expanding, particularly in developing countries

Foreign doctors

Looking for a job

Chile’s health system attracts waves of foreign doctors but many can’t find jobs

Social stratification

“The promise of well-paid, secure jobs did not come true”

Oxfam strategist Duncan Green explains why the economic paradigm seems to be shifting internationally

Price negotiations

Paying over the odds

Thrashing out a vaccines pricing deal with multiple players

Intellectual property

INGO opposes vaccine patents

Oxfam explains how current pricing and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines highlight global inequality