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Development and cooperation

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Poverty Reduction

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

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Comment
Katrin Radtke

After the quake

In Haiti, the state must be reconstructed, and not only buildings

Research
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Work is not everything

Researches focus on decent work

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Do more

Development agencies have their work cut out

Poverty alleviation
K. P. Kannan

“Employment in lean seasons”

Employment guarantees are boosting rural development in India

Preventing poverty
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Dirty shoes

Microinsurance schemes could protect 3 billion people from harm

Global warming
Thomas Kluge

“Wastewater is a resource”

Smarter water infrastructure is made necessary by climate change

Climate change
Ottmar Edenhofer
Thomas R. Loster
Johannes Wallacher

An equitable solution

Outlines of a global deal on climate protection and poverty reduction

Fighting poverty
Franziska Baur

Right to life

Maternal health: an unattainable goal by 2015

Relevant reading
Imme Scholz

The Gordian knot

Scholars propose to remodel the emissions trading

Climate change
Stephan Beschle

Reducing disaster risks

Bangladesh’s progress in terms of disaster relief is encouraging

Poverty Reduction

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

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Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
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Financing development and climate goals
Pakistan’s rural infrastructure is inadequate

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
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Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition
A story is always part of the currents of its time

Governance

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

Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust
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Sustainability

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

Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust
Why you might find our newsletter useful