Development and
Cooperation

Poverty reduction

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

Financing lives

The largest single donor worldwide has halted its development cooperation: funding for USAID has been frozen for 90 days and is currently under review. These actions by the US president are already costing human lives. The global community must save what it ca...

Malawi

Sewing masks to fight corona

In Malawi, an army of volunteers across the country are busy sewing face masks from locally available materials such as cotton and pieces of fabric

Health professionals

The impact of brain drain

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

Universal basic income

Social transfers stabilise aggregate demand

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

Maternal health

Difficult delivery

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

UN forecast

55 countries will see their population shrink by 2050

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

Blog

Gender implications of Covid-19

Covid-19 hits women harder, warns OECD

Pandemic side-effects

Two daily meals of porridge

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

Education

A boost for women

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

Legal action

Malawi judge blocks lockdown

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

Employment

The urgency of public works programmes

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