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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

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.

Marginalisation

Dolls feeding street children

Home-made dolls help Iranian youngsters to escape poverty

PEGNet: call for papers
World economy

Cooperation beats confrontation

In times of financial distress, countries are likely to ask for support from both established and new IFIs

Poverty

Major breakthrough

What last year’s update of the World Bank’s poverty line means

Poverty

New poverty line better reflects reality

World Bank updated key indicator for measuring poverty

International development banks

“Sensible division of labour”

New and old IFIs can – and should – cooperate in a constructive manner

Private sector

Better skilled employees

Why it makes sense for companies to invest in their staff’s skills

Refugees

Reducing what makes people flee

Experts from the DIE think tank want conflict prevention and peacekeeping to be at the centre of development policies

Human rights

State authorities fail citizens

Pakistan violates rights of internally displaced people