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...

Refugee policy

More money better spent

Researchers are calling for more money for refugee assistance and a more efficient use of funds

Refugees

Earning a living with pottery

To escape poverty, a young refugee started to sell self-made pottery in Uganda and succeeded

Infrastructure

Policy recommendations

Rural revitalisation is essential for transforming rural areas, not only in Africa

Rural development

Rurbanomics

Revitalising rural areas means improving infrastructure and boosting people’s opportunities

Poverty

Urban food insecurity

Urban hunger is an under-rated problem, for example in Nairobi

Municipal governance

Farming in the metropolis

Low-income Nairobians mitigate hunger and malnutrition by growing their own food

Economics

Nobel prize's focus on poverty is welcome, but incomplete

Micro level evidence is insufficient for rising to macro level challenges

Tanzania

Praising the social market economy

Faith leaders in Tanzania do not want to see economy leaving anyone behind

Education

A real school at last

In a refugee camp for Syrians in Lebanon, volunteers have established a school

Mental health

Suicide on the rise

People who suffer from depression need better care in Malawi