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Poverty Reduction

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

Rebounding tourism set to support Sri Lanka’s economic recovery

Tourist arrivals have increased rapidly in Sri Lanka in the past two years, and experts expect a still larger influx in this year’s tourism season. An upturn in the hospitality industry would support the national economy.

European Union

In need of harmonisation

Scholars warn that European development efforts are not sufficiently coordinated

Scholarship

New challenges

Stephan Klingebiel argues that development policy must adapt to a changing world

Disaster relief

Building back better

Natural catastrophes are terrible for the people affected, but reconstruction efforts can improve lives

Post-2015 process

Core concerns

EU considers the post-2015 process an opportunity to improve the provision of global public goods

Food security

Struggling smallholders

Despite living in a stable economy, half of all Kenyans are poor

Lack of social safety net

From valuable to vulnerable

After civil war, many old people must fend for themselves in Sierra Leone

Teenage pregnancy

Right to childhood

The long term impacts of teenage pregnancies on girls and society

Urgent issue

Fundamental principle

Social-protection innovations neither serve everyone in developing countries and emerging markets, nor do they cover all risks.

Social protection

The South African social contract

Social protection is enshrined in South Africa's constitution, but poverty pervails nonetheless

PEGNet

Challenging complexity

Reducing poverty and achieving sustainability are daunting goals, as PEGNet conference finds