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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.

Infectious diseases

“We need staying power”

How KfW Development Bank is fighting infectious diseases

China

“The leaders want to solve problems”

An ADB expert assesses China’s developmental success

Global challenge

The right to health

Lea Ferno: Civil-society organisations want global health care to become a cross-cutting topic that concerns all government departments

Market analysis

Measuring sustainability

GIZ has developed a method to assess the market potential of fuel-efficient cookers

Development assistance

Tapping new sources

For the world to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, more money will be needed – a new OECD report shows were to get it from

Education

The difficulties of becoming an artist

Many African artists find it difficult to get vocational training

Subsidies

Counter-productive policy

ADB expert spells out why subsidies for fossil fuels are bad policy

Development agencies

Learning step by step

ODI speaks out in favour of “politically smart” and “locally led” development projects

Epidemics

Extraordinary measures in extraordinary times

With the Ebola epidemic spreading rapidly, Sierra Leone took drastic measures

Research

Give youth a chance

PEGNet annual conference in Zambia discusses strategies to boost employment