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.

No hope for Rohingya

Monsoon rains threaten refugees in Bangladeshi camps

Summer Special

Robbed identity

Uday Prakash is an Indian fiction writer who is interested in how poor people are marginalised and exploited

Fighting poverty

Successful debt relief

Lessons learned concerning multilateral debt relief

International financial institutions

More efficient multilateralism

IMF and Worldbank must heed lessons of past decades

ODA

Lessons learned

Whether ODA succeeds or fails depends on many things

Development policy

Not an end in itself

Stephan Exo-Kreischer from the ONE Campaign explains why development policy is successful internationally

Development policy

Too many failures

Kurt Gerhardt of the Bonn Appeal issues a fundamental critique of Germany’s development policy

Economic policymaking

Low-hanging fruit

In the early 1990s, India’s economic reforms triggered high growth rates for the long term

Why things are better than people in rich countries think

Hans Rosling’s mission was to make the world aware of important trends

Digital technologies

Endangered employment

The digital revolution needs to be harnessed towards the public good, a study by the German Development Institute argues