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
Editorial

Made by human beings

Textiles and garment production prove that globalisation can and must be regulated

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Comment

German companies take a level-headed stance

Ebola hysteria is weakening African economies

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by Christoph Kannengießer
by Carla Nickel
Migration

On the border

How migrants from sub-Saharan Africa who live in Morocco prepare for their dangerous boat ride to the EU

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by Floreana Miesen
Commodities

Farmers' self-determination

Fairtrade is improving cotton farmers’ lot in Africa and India

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by Anup Kumar Singh
Demographic trends

Differentiated action

Study illuminates reasons for sustained high birth rates in Sub-Saharan Africa

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Women’s empowerment

Married too young

More work opportunities for women in Bangladesh can lower the rate of child marriages

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by Khadija Farhana
Textile industry

Price does not guarantee fairness

Working conditions for Bangladeshi seamstresses are often poor even when expensive branded garments are made

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by Gisela Burckhardt
Labour relations

“Enforce the law”

Bangladeshi labour leader demands that laws be enforced

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by Nazma Akter
by Marianne Scholte
International financial institution

Human and social beings

Better late than never – World Bank abandons “homo economicus”

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by Hans Dembowski
Insurance industry

New horizons

International insurance companies are increasingly interested in African markets

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by Anja Strautz