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Poverty Reduction

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

Pamela Cruz
Pamela Cruz

Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector

Mexico owes many of its tourist attractions to its wealth of indigenous communities. It is important that they are included in the country’s tourism industry in a sustainable, respectful and empowering way.

Health professionals
Richa Arora

The impact of brain drain

When health professionals migrate to prosperous countries, they no longer serve patients at home

Universal basic income
Markus Loewe
Markus Loewe

Social transfers stabilise aggregate demand

The Covid-19 crisis is the right time to test UBI policies

Maternal health
Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo

Difficult delivery

Untrained ‘backyard’ midwives fill a gap in Zimbabwe’s health system

UN forecast
Sarah Josef

55 countries will see their population shrink by 2050

UN statistics show that migration has an impact on how individual countries’ populations develop

Blog
Monika Hellstern

Gender implications of Covid-19

Covid-19 hits women harder, warns OECD

Pandemic side-effects
Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki

Two daily meals of porridge

Uganda’s poor are struggling with the Covid-19 lockdown

Education
Gildaneliz Barrientos

A boost for women

A start-up school teaching work skills to women aims to narrow Guatemala’s gender gap

Legal action
Raphael Mweninguwe

Malawi judge blocks lockdown

Malawi’s Covid-19 lockdown has been suspended by legal action

Employment
Joachim von Braun
Tekalign Sakketa

The urgency of public works programmes

Labour-intensive public employment schemes build vital infrastructure and alleviate poverty at the same time

Pandemic response
Katharina Michaelowa
Katharina Michaelowa
Axel Michaelowa

Why lockdowns may prove deadly

Neglect of how the urban poor live, is making Covid-19 responses dangerous in many low-income countries

Poverty Reduction

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

Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector
Rebounding tourism set to support Sri Lanka’s economic recovery
Why tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka peaked in 2018
Mexico’s first female president
Prioritise international solidarity over national interests

Gender Equality

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

Mexico’s first female president
Women-led businesses suffer most
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Why the acronym BIPoC does not have to explain anything
Defending the progress made

Governance

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

Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts
ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities
Imagine top judges in Africa or Asia ruling like the US Supreme Court
Turning point in sanctions policy

Sustainability

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

Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts
ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities
Imagine top judges in Africa or Asia ruling like the US Supreme Court
Turning point in sanctions policy