Development and
Cooperation

E-Paper Archive

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...

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Primary schools

Public is waiting for government report

Authorities shy away from discussing results of Liberian private-public partnership in primary education

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by Samwar S. Fallah
Nexus

Points to keep in mind

How the Nexus approach can be successfully implemented in the Lake Chad Basin

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by Fabian Böckler
Lake Chad region

Nexus makes sense

In the Lake Chad Basin crisis, humanitarian aid alone will not do – development support and peace promotion are needed too

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by Fabian Böckler
Social inclusion

The parents’ burden

In India, a growing number of economically disadvantaged parents are sending their children to private schools

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by Roli Mahajan
Natural disaster

Mozambique faces enormous challenges

After Cyclone Idai, Mozambique needs a new natural-disaster prevention and city planning

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Schools

Indispensable lessons

Why teenage girls need sex education even more than teenage boys do

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
Aditi Roy Ghatak
Children’s rights

Bolivia bows to international pressure

Bolivia abandons pioneering legal reform for working children

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by Manfred Liebel
Our view

Markets leave some people behind

The top priority must be to ensure that state-run schools perform well

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by Hans Dembowski
Private education

Some people have no other choice

Relevant reading on why private education can make a difference in developing countries

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by Hans Dembowski
Security

Climate of fear and violence

Honduras is among the most dangerous countries that are not currently at war

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by Rita Trautmann
by Dennis Muñoz