Development and
Cooperation

Poverty reduction

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

TV sets for poor households in Ghana

A Ghanaian businessman runs two companies that tackle the problem of digital waste. He is in competition with informal waste recycling, which has a poor reputation because it damages the environment, exploits workers and exposes them to harmful substances.

Development strategy

“People have created poverty”

Anthropologist reframes poverty the result of plundering by a few people in rich countries at poor countries’ expense

World Bank Report on work, social protection and taxes

State action to facilitate market dynamics

Health care

Free access for the extremely poor

The Health Equity Fund is improving access to health care for the poorest people in Cambodia

Social cohesion

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

Pioneering urban agriculture

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

In defence of the SDGs

Excessive suspicion of private-sector interests does not help

International finance institution

Dangerous transformation

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

Multilateral bank

Reform gone wrong

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

Poverty targeting

Six main methodologies

How to identify poor people for the provision of support

Poverty alleviation

Costs and benefits of poverty targeting

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