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Poverty Reduction

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

Arjuna Ranawana

Sri Lanka has made important steps towards debt restructuring

Sri Lanka’s government has been making several important steps towards restructuring its heavy sovereign debt. The process is cumbersome, however, and some observers worry that President Ranil Wickremesinghe may be less interested in long-term debt relief than...

Agricultural development

“Inclusive processes are essential”

“Inclusive processes are essential”

John M. Powell, UN World Food Programme

“There are no surpluses”

“There are no surpluses”

Double failure

Double failure

Donor policy

Auditors criticise US food aid as bureaucratic and…

Auditors criticise US food aid as bureaucratic and inefficient

Disaster relief and development

After the tsunami

After the tsunami

Development finance

Study warns against expecting too much of microcredits

Study warns against expecting too much of microcredits

Poverty Reduction

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

Sri Lanka has made important steps towards debt restructuring
Cultivating easier crops
Development is thwarted where corruption corrodes the common good
Tourism boom in Baltistan
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges

Gender Equality

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

Reimagining African folktales
The literary power of Black women writers
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack

Governance

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

Sri Lanka has made important steps towards debt restructuring
Young people yearning for a peaceful Africa
Development is thwarted where corruption corrodes the common good
Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people

Sustainability

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

Sri Lanka has made important steps towards debt restructuring
Young people yearning for a peaceful Africa
Development is thwarted where corruption corrodes the common good
Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people