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Development and cooperation

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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 media tax
Edward Ronald Sekyewa

Negative impacts

Social media use in Uganda is now being taxed, affecting businesses in a negative way

Agriculture
Aditi Roy Ghatak
Aditi Roy Ghatak

Digital farming

How digitisation can benefit commercial farms in India

Information technology
Aditi Roy Ghatak
Aditi Roy Ghatak

Digital forces and ethical challenges

India must prepare for dramatic digital change

Kofi Annan
Friederike Bauer

Special relationship with Africa

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan cared deeply about Africa

Education
Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado

Cultural change

Future jobs will require high levels of specialisation

Manufacturing
Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado

Automation in a low-wage country

Whether the robots replace workers depends on complicated cost calculations in Mexico

Digitalisation
Patrick Ruether
Vikrom Mathur
Urvashi Aneja

#AIforAll

Digitalisation offers opportunities, but also goes along with huge risks in India

Technology
Benjamin Kumpf
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Generating broad-based wealth

UNDP innovation expert assesses pros and cons of new digital technology

Demographic change
Karim Okanla

Progress may not be sustained

Life expectancy has improved in Benin, but poverty remains a serious challenge

Technology
Wilfried Lütkenhorst

Digital disruption

The digital revolution may make low-wage industrialisation less likely

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