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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.

Technology
Wilfried Lütkenhorst

Digital disruption

The digital revolution may make low-wage industrialisation less likely

Skills training
Nassir Djafari

Low standard, wrong content

Why the MENA region lacks domestically trained ICT experts

Youth unemployment
Nassir Djafari

Focused agenda needed

The MENA region needs economic growth and targeted interventions to get to grips with youth unemployment

Automation
Nico Beckert

The exaggerated threat of robots

International competition is a bigger threat to Africa's industrialisation than the automation of labour

IMF
Carlos Albuquerque

Brazil's IMF experience

In similar settings, Brazil’s experience with the IMF was much better than Argentina’s

Schools
Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu

More must happen

Literacy rates have risen in sub-Saharan Africa, but reality is probably worse than official numbers suggest

Global data
Homi Kharas
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

“We can end extreme poverty”

Tracking global poverty on a daily basis

Demographic change
Alisa Kaps
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Lives are now 20 years longer

Birth rates go down as standards of living improve

MDG results
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Improvement in many fields

The success story of the Millennium Development Goals

Disease control
Meekaeel Siphambili

“Killing mosquito larvae is the best prevention”

Botswana has achieved great success in the fight against malaria

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