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Poverty Reduction

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

Imran Mukhtar
Imran Mukhtar

Pakistan’s rural infrastructure is inadequate

Pakistan’s rural infrastructure is inadequate. That was true in 1947, when the country became independent, and in far too many areas, it is still true today. Rural communities generally lack good public services and have too few economic opportunities. Climate...

Health professionals
Richa Arora

The impact of brain drain

When health professionals migrate to prosperous countries, they no longer serve patients at home

Universal basic income
Markus Loewe
Markus Loewe

Social transfers stabilise aggregate demand

The Covid-19 crisis is the right time to test UBI policies

Maternal health
Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo

Difficult delivery

Untrained ‘backyard’ midwives fill a gap in Zimbabwe’s health system

UN forecast
Sarah Josef

55 countries will see their population shrink by 2050

UN statistics show that migration has an impact on how individual countries’ populations develop

Blog
Monika Hellstern

Gender implications of Covid-19

Covid-19 hits women harder, warns OECD

Pandemic side-effects
Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki

Two daily meals of porridge

Uganda’s poor are struggling with the Covid-19 lockdown

Education
Gildaneliz Barrientos

A boost for women

A start-up school teaching work skills to women aims to narrow Guatemala’s gender gap

Legal action
Raphael Mweninguwe

Malawi judge blocks lockdown

Malawi’s Covid-19 lockdown has been suspended by legal action

Employment
Joachim von Braun
Tekalign Sakketa

The urgency of public works programmes

Labour-intensive public employment schemes build vital infrastructure and alleviate poverty at the same time

Pandemic response
Katharina Michaelowa
Katharina Michaelowa
Axel Michaelowa

Why lockdowns may prove deadly

Neglect of how the urban poor live, is making Covid-19 responses dangerous in many low-income countries

Poverty Reduction

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

Pakistan’s rural infrastructure is inadequate
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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Gender Equality

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

Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
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

Governance

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

Why many East Germans think they are only second-class citizens
Tuberculosis in Mozambique
When new medications lose their efficacy immediately
Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
In Pakistan, authoritarian attitudes are a colonial legacy

Sustainability

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

Why many East Germans think they are only second-class citizens
Tuberculosis in Mozambique
When new medications lose their efficacy immediately
Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
In Pakistan, authoritarian attitudes are a colonial legacy