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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. ...

Gender relations
Roli Mahajan

U-shaped curve

Young Indian women have great professional aspirations, but many dreams will not come true

Higher learning
Javier A. Cisterna Figueroa

“Education must not be for sale”

Chile’s poor youth suffer in the privatised education system

Germany’s Federal Government
Theresa Krinninger

Promoting investments in Africa

Two German cabinet members launch joint initiative to boost private-sector development

Job opportunities
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Working in poverty

Youth unemployment is on the rise and persistent gender gaps undermine social progress

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Ebola vaccine proven effective in clinical trial

This public-health success was driven by international, multi-sector cooperation rather than by market forces

Social cash transfers
Bernd Schubert

Welfare payments are no longer taboo

Insights from Kalomo, Zambia revolutionise social protection in Africa

Africa
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla

Disasters waiting to happen

Failure to expand formal youth employment in Africa will mean more unrest, more migration, more crime and more religious extremism

Gender
Basma El-Mahdy

Women want careers

Young Egyptian women do not accept traditional family roles

Egypt
Basma El-Mahdy

Still aspiring to ­change the world

Six years after the Arab spring, things look worse than ever to young Egyptians

International cooperation
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Take agencies by their word

An international think tank wants aid recipients to be more assertive in relations with donor agencies

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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