Development and
Cooperation

E-Paper Archive

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.

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by Hans Dembowski
Technology

Generating broad-based wealth

UNDP innovation expert assesses pros and cons of new digital technology

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by Benjamin Kumpf
by Hans Dembowski
Demographic change

Progress may not be sustained

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

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by Karim Okanla
Technology

Digital disruption

The digital revolution may make low-wage industrialisation less likely

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by Wilfried Lütkenhorst
Skills training

Low standard, wrong content

Why the MENA region lacks domestically trained ICT experts

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by Nassir Djafari
Youth unemployment

Focused agenda needed

The MENA region needs economic growth and targeted interventions to get to grips with youth unemployment

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by Nassir Djafari
Automation

The exaggerated threat of robots

International competition is a bigger threat to Africa's industrialisation than the automation of labour

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by Nico Beckert
IMF

Brazil's IMF experience

In similar settings, Brazil’s experience with the IMF was much better than Argentina’s

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by Carlos Albuquerque
Schools

More must happen

Literacy rates have risen in sub-Saharan Africa, but reality is probably worse than official numbers suggest

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
Global data

“We can end extreme poverty”

Tracking global poverty on a daily basis

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by Homi Kharas
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Demographic change

Lives are now 20 years longer

Birth rates go down as standards of living improve

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by Alisa Kaps
by Hans Dembowski