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

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...

Automation

The exaggerated threat of robots

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

IMF

Brazil's IMF experience

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

Schools

More must happen

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

Global data

“We can end extreme poverty”

Tracking global poverty on a daily basis

Demographic change

Lives are now 20 years longer

Birth rates go down as standards of living improve

MDG results

Improvement in many fields

The success story of the Millennium Development Goals

Disease control

“Killing mosquito larvae is the best prevention”

Botswana has achieved great success in the fight against malaria

Financial cooperation

More money for development

In 2017, KfW committed € 9.7 billion to new development projects worldwide

Distorted perception

Middle-income majority

Hans Rosling showed that humankind is in a better shape than generally believed

MDGs

Think globally, act globally

Millennium Development Goals shaped new global partnership