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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...

Germany’s Federal Government
Theresa Krinninger

Promoting investments in Africa

Two German cabinet members launch joint initiative to boost private-sector development

Job opportunities
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Working in poverty

Youth unemployment is on the rise and persistent gender gaps undermine social progress

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Ebola vaccine proven effective in clinical trial

This public-health success was driven by international, multi-sector cooperation rather than by market forces

Social cash transfers
Bernd Schubert

Welfare payments are no longer taboo

Insights from Kalomo, Zambia revolutionise social protection in Africa

Africa
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla

Disasters waiting to happen

Failure to expand formal youth employment in Africa will mean more unrest, more migration, more crime and more religious extremism

Gender
Basma El-Mahdy

Women want careers

Young Egyptian women do not accept traditional family roles

Egypt
Basma El-Mahdy

Still aspiring to ­change the world

Six years after the Arab spring, things look worse than ever to young Egyptians

International cooperation
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Take agencies by their word

An international think tank wants aid recipients to be more assertive in relations with donor agencies

Global Governance
Christian R. Proaño

A paradigm change at the IMF?

IMF economomists worry about growing inequality

Poverty
Parach Mach

Women crushing stones

In order to survive, some women in South Sudan take to cracking stones

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
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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
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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.

Self-righteous aggressiveness versus universal values
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

Sustainability

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

Self-righteous aggressiveness versus universal values
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