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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. ...

PEGNet Conference
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Measures to reduce inequality

Public investments in education and social protection help to reduce inequality

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

To Bangladeshis poverty looks different than to Europeans

A documentary film concerning garments production teaches the wrong lessons

Social entrepreneurship
Bettina Meier

Companies financing foundation

Togolese company processes organic pineapples that French importers do not want

Social entrepreneurship
Bettina Meier

A balancing act

NGOs are founding companies in order to fund themselves with profits

Labour relations
Franziska Korn

One law for all

Bangladesh’s labour legislation has improved, but more needs to happen

Editorial
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Global social contract

A lot must still happen to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of decent work

Lacking opportunities
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla

Emigration would help

Unlike young Europeans in past centuries, young Africans today are denied opportunities overseas

Occupation
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla

Why the western model doesn’t work

Informal employment dominates in Africa – well-paying jobs with social-protection benefits are the exception

Structural change
Tilman Altenburg

The retail revolution

WalMart, Tesco and others are conquering markets in developing countries

Saudi Arabia
Nassir Djafari

Breaking up ossified structures

The labour market in Saudi Arabia is inflexible, unjust and limiting the country’s economic renewal

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
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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
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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.

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
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Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

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
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