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
Child labour

Underage miners

Dangerous child labour is still rampant in Zambia

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by Humphrey Nkonde
Development finance institution

Bigger markets, more opportunities

DEG chairwoman Christiane Laibach elaborates why development depends on trade

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by Christiane Laibach
by Hans Dembowski
Employment

Skills of Congolese refugees

Congolese refugees in Uganda are known for their entrepreneurship

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by Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki
Global governance

“Light at the end of the tunnel”

Donald Trump is disrupting international trade but has not caused lasting damage so far

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by Iwan J. Azis
by Hans Dembowski
Risks to humanity

“The most powerful driving force is climate change”

The dangerous trends that are changing the global environment are interconnected

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by Dirk Messner
by Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski
Rural development

Involve the local community

The High Atlas Foundation is setting standards for improving rural livelihoods and protecting the environment in Morocco

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by Kerstin Opfer
Rural development

New opportunities for farmers

Sahaja Organics builds a bridge between organic farmers and customers in the cities

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Kenya

Sex for fish

Poverty and desperation lead women in fishing communities in Kenya to trade sex for goods

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by Brenda Mbaja Lubang'a
Climate change

Deciding whether to migrate and where to go

Law professor assesses links between climate change and migration

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by Walter Kälin
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
International organisations

A reform agenda for the ILO

The tripartite setting of the ILO was useful in the past, but it does not represent the world of work adequately today

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