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
Bangladesh

No “basket case”

Bangladesh is a development success, not a basket case

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by Marianne Scholte
Infectious diseases

“We need staying power”

How KfW Development Bank is fighting infectious diseases

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by Andrea Holzäpfel
China

“The leaders want to solve problems”

An ADB expert assesses China’s developmental success

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by Ayumi Konishi
Global challenge

The right to health

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

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by Lea Ferno
Market analysis

Measuring sustainability

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

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by Marlis Kees
Development assistance

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

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by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
Education

The difficulties of becoming an artist

Many African artists find it difficult to get vocational training

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by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
Subsidies

Counter-productive policy

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

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by Anthony J. Jude
Development agencies

Learning step by step

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

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by Hans Dembowski
Epidemics

Extraordinary measures in extraordinary times

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

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by Fidelis Adele