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Development and cooperation

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Poverty Reduction

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

Ravi Khetarpal
Roli Mahajan

The Global NARS Consortium’s revolutionary approach to food security

To date, agricultural research has been mostly geared to issues relevant to high-income nations. Developing countries’ national agricultural research systems (NARS) deserve much more influence – and a new consortium is being established to serve that purpose. ...

Social cohesion
Roli Mahajan

Good progress with further room for improvement

How well India is doing in terms of fighting poverty depends on what yardstick is applied

Food security
Katie Cashman

Pioneering urban agriculture

How “production in the community, by the community, for the community” became the paradigm of agricultural policy in Cuba

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

In defence of the SDGs

Excessive suspicion of private-sector interests does not help

International finance institution
Korinna Horta

Dangerous transformation

World Bank can do more lending – and charges more interest rates

Multilateral bank
Korinna Horta

Reform gone wrong

The World Bank’s social and environmental standards have been weakened significantly

Poverty targeting
James G. Bennett

Six main methodologies

How to identify poor people for the provision of support

Poverty alleviation
James G. Bennett

Costs and benefits of poverty targeting

The more accurate a poverty-targeting strategy is, the more expensive it is

International relations
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Reconsidering development cooperation

The aid system must adapt to a fast changing world and rise to new challenges

Education
Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki

Charcoal paying for education

A poor female charcoal-vendor in Uganda managed to send her children to university

Our view
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Wisdom and foresight

To rise to the challenges of IT, the global community will need yet more political innovations

Poverty Reduction

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

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
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Sex for fish: the exploitation of female fish traders in Malawi

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
Why you might find our newsletter useful
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