Poverty Reduction

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

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating. The impacts on her country are already quite bad.

Sanitation

Clean water, clean contracts

Corruption charges cast shadows over efforts to upgrade Malawi’s water systems

Our view

Sharing fundamental values

Immigration benefits host countries and often also countries of origin

Diaspora communities

To Filipinos, labour migration is normal, not unusual

Masses of Filipino women live and work abroad

Labour migration

Preserving the lifeline of migrants’ remittances

For many developing countries, reduced remittances and less foreign-direct investment are a double whammy

Fighting poverty

A world without hunger is possible

Gerd Müller, Germany’s federal minister for economic cooperation and development, assesses multi-dimensional Covid-19 crisis

Informal vendors

A battle for the streets

Informal vendors fight for the right to sell on the streets of Malawi

Blog

German government officer assesses the limits of ODA

Competences needed for improving international aid efforts

Urban lives
Slum-dwellers

India’s commercial hub is a city of migrants

Masses of people who live in Mumbai’s miserable slums appreciate the city’s many opportunities

Obstetric fistula

Marginalised for reasons of health

Obstetric fistula causes suffering and exclusion for many thousands of women