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

Food security

Better figures

Global Hunger Index 2016 reckons that things have improved – but almost 800 million people still suffer hunger

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25.10.2016

Neglected disease

Life-saving rubber boots

Thailand’s third most deadly disease is melioidosis

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by Sheila Mysorekar

Sheila Mysorekar

22.10.2016

Comment

Conservative innovators

To innovate more, smallholder farmers need better financial services and competent advice

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by Linda Kleemann

by Lukas Borkowski

by Tobias Stöhr

21.10.2016

Medical research

Diseases of the poor

Neglected tropical diseases affect more than a billion people worldwide

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by Sheila Mysorekar

Sheila Mysorekar

20.10.2016

Health

Global health challenge

Experts want poor people in tropical countries to benefit from advances in medical technology

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19.10.2016

Pandemic threat

The global threat of dengue

390 million people in more than 120 countries were infected with dengue in 2014

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by Edith Koesoemawiria

18.10.2016

Migration

The stigma of failure

Failing to get to Europe, Ghanaian migrants return home

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by Maxwell Suuk

17.10.2016

Dengue

At least 900 dead in 2015

Indonesia is striving to get a grip on dengue

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by Edith Koesoemawiria

16.10.2016

Urban development

A fast growing city

Brief overview: Mangaluru

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12.10.2016

Urban development

“Mental attitudes matter”

Civil-society leader discusses the recent development of Mangaluru, a south Indian harbour town

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by Hilda Rayappan

11.10.2016