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Development and cooperation

D + C

Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Poverty Reduction

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

Michael Moyo

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa

In the 90s, South Africa became an epicenter of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. HIV is mostly a sexually transmitted disease. Intravenous drug users are at risk too, however, and so are people who need blood transfusions. HIV/AIDS initially spread fast among the...

Information technology
Aditi Roy Ghatak
Aditi Roy Ghatak

Digital forces and ethical challenges

India must prepare for dramatic digital change

Kofi Annan
Friederike Bauer

Special relationship with Africa

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan cared deeply about Africa

Education
Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado

Cultural change

Future jobs will require high levels of specialisation

Manufacturing
Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado

Automation in a low-wage country

Whether the robots replace workers depends on complicated cost calculations in Mexico

Digitalisation
Patrick Ruether
Vikrom Mathur
Urvashi Aneja

#AIforAll

Digitalisation offers opportunities, but also goes along with huge risks in India

Technology
Benjamin Kumpf
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Generating broad-based wealth

UNDP innovation expert assesses pros and cons of new digital technology

Demographic change
Karim Okanla

Progress may not be sustained

Life expectancy has improved in Benin, but poverty remains a serious challenge

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

Poverty Reduction

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

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly

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
Why you might find our newsletter useful
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.

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos

Sustainability

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

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos