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

10.03.2025

Resilience

The rise of a concept

Resilience has become a new buzzword in development circles – the impacts are not always positive

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09.03.2017

Infrastructure

No access to clean water

Clean drinking water is hard to get in South Sudan

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27.02.2017

Corporate Atlas 2017

Controlling our food

A small number of multinational corporations control the global food industry from the field to the supermarket shelf

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by Theresa Krinninger

25.02.2017

G20

One world – our responsibility

Germany’s Federal Government will put the SDS high on the agenda of this year’s G20 summit in Hamburg

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by Hans-Joachim Fuchtel

24.02.2017

Dhaka – a fast changing agglomeration

Dramatic urban development in Bangladesh

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by Hans Dembowski

10.02.2017

Senior citizens

Pensioners fall on hard times

Zimbabwe’s elderly cannot access their pensions

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by Jeffrey Moyo

Jeffrey Moyo

06.02.2017

Call for papers

Inequality – and how to deal with it

Annual PEGNet conference to focus on inequality in Zürich in September

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15.01.2017

SADC

Nostalgia and empty promises

Populism is common in Southern Africa, where former liberation movements have become dominant political parties

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by Henning Melber

10.01.2017

Comment

Future at risk

Youth unemployment remains a key challenge in Zambia

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by Frank Masanta Jr.

06.01.2017

Disabilities

Inclusion counts

New CBM book proves that disability-inclusive development makes economic sense

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by Esther Dopheide

04.01.2017