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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. ...

Bangladesh
Marianne Scholte

No “basket case”

Bangladesh is a development success, not a basket case

Infectious diseases
Andrea Holzäpfel

“We need staying power”

How KfW Development Bank is fighting infectious diseases

China
Ayumi Konishi

“The leaders want to solve problems”

An ADB expert assesses China’s developmental success

Global challenge
Lea Ferno

The right to health

Lea Ferno: Civil-society organisations want global health care to become a cross-cutting topic that concerns all government departments

Market analysis
Marlis Kees

Measuring sustainability

GIZ has developed a method to assess the market potential of fuel-efficient cookers

Development assistance
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

Tapping new sources

For the world to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, more money will be needed – a new OECD report shows were to get it from

Education
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

The difficulties of becoming an artist

Many African artists find it difficult to get vocational training

Subsidies
Anthony J. Jude

Counter-productive policy

ADB expert spells out why subsidies for fossil fuels are bad policy

Development agencies
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Learning step by step

ODI speaks out in favour of “politically smart” and “locally led” development projects

Epidemics
Fidelis Adele

Extraordinary measures in extraordinary times

With the Ebola epidemic spreading rapidly, Sierra Leone took drastic measures

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.

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
Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

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History did not end
Lessons to be learnt from Nepal’s recent excessive rains
How opium became a pillar of the British Empire
The forgotten Arab slave trade

Sustainability

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

Why we believe in our Digital Monthly
History did not end
Lessons to be learnt from Nepal’s recent excessive rains
How opium became a pillar of the British Empire
The forgotten Arab slave trade