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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.

Raphael Mweninguwe

Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers

EcoGen, a Malawian start-up, transforms animal waste into biogas and bio-fertiliser, providing farmers with affordable energy and sustainable farming solutions. This innovation helps reduce reliance on firewood and chemical fertilisers.

Adult literacy
Lawrence Kilimwiko

Getting back on track

Tanzania is launching a multifaceted programme to boost adult literacy rates

Health care
Thuany Rodrigues

An over-stretched system

Brazil’s health-care system struggles to offer uniform service in the country’s poorest areas

Pharmacists in development cooperation
Christian Splett

Essential experts

Pharmacists without borders do important work in aid missions and projects worldwide

Cancer
Max Klein
Jörg Schaaber

Unaffordable treatment

For people in developing countries, most cancer drugs are unaffordable

Patents
Max Klein
Jörg Schaaber

Intellectual property versus health care

Insistence on medical patents costs lives, especially in the global south

Covid-19
Raphael Mweninguwe

Malawi refuses expired vaccines

Malawi says ‘no’ to WHO advice to hold on to expired Covid-19 vaccines

Our view
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Foundations of broad-based prosperity

How the middle class matters in a country’s development

Growing prosperity
Homi Kharas
Aviva Freudmann

Middle-class lifestyles start with $ 10 per person and day

The middle class is expanding, particularly in developing countries

Foreign doctors
Javier A. Cisterna Figueroa

Looking for a job

Chile’s health system attracts waves of foreign doctors but many can’t find jobs

Social stratification
Duncan Green
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“The promise of well-paid, secure jobs did not come true”

Oxfam strategist Duncan Green explains why the economic paradigm seems to be shifting internationally

Poverty Reduction

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

Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
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Financing development and climate goals

Gender Equality

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

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
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

Governance

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

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
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

Sustainability

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

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
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