Development and
Cooperation

E-Paper Archive

Poverty reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Financing lives

The largest single donor worldwide has halted its development cooperation: funding for USAID has been frozen for 90 days and is currently under review. These actions by the US president are already costing human lives. The global community must save what it ca...

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Relevant reading

Moving targets

Why the EU should reform the way it runs development affairs

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by Niels Keijzer
by Christine Hackenesch
Fight against hunger

NGO demands stronger G7 commitment

Rich countries have to shift focus in the fight against global hunger – and pledge more funding

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by Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski
Pastoralism

The Tanzanian Maasai entering industrial age

Maasai pastoralists in Tanzania are opting for milk processing as a way to generate income

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by Grace Atuhaire
Labour

Job quality matters

Zambia’s bumpy road to decent work for all

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by Gibson Masumbu
by Martin Ostermeier
Development studies

The middle-class hype

It is doubtful, whether middle classes in developing countries are driving progress

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by Henning Melber
Humanitarian aid

“More, not less commitment”

Challenges for humanitarian Aid in ISIS-controlled areas

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by Theresa Krinninger
Transportation

Cheap and dangerous

Motorcycle taxis in Tanzania cause many traffic accidents, but are also a cheap way of transportation

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Industrial work

No way out

Labour conditions are tough in Guatemala’s garment factories, and they are not improving

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by Mirna Lilian Ramírez Pérez
Decent work

Quality criteria

Gerd Müller, federal minister for economic cooperation and development, wants to improve labour conditions in textiles and garment production

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by Gerd Müller
AWAJ Foundation

New kind of labour movement

A new kind of labour movement has been emerging in Bangladesh since the Rana-Plaza disaster

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by Marianne Scholte