Poverty Reduction

In Johannesburg, clerics and worshippers say their conscience is torn between illegal money and seeing their churches impoverished, because they fund their churches with illegal mining.

Official development assistance has helped countries to prosper, and it increasingly serves global public goods.

The international community must address urgent worldwide challenges with full determination

Credit and savings from the village savings and loan schemes are used by Malawians for several purposes. For many, it provides money for common groceries in times when agriculture harvests decline.

The international community has sensible goals, but needs a coherent policy framework to achieve them.

In Ghana, many rural, poor women are left with no option but to take up labour-intensive blue-collar jobs, such as carrying heavy loads with pans on their heads.

What purposes our Digital Monthly serves, and how it differs from the print issue

Many Malawians are disappointed with their government, abandoning the hope that their economic situation will change for better

Sustainable development would be hampered internationally should European legislation regarding supply-chain management fail, and Germany’s reputation would suffer too.

The so-called just transition is expensive. Rich countries need to support poorer ones.