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Around the globe, inequality regarding happiness is deepening

According to the World Happiness Report 2024, holistic, people-centred policies are conducive to a nation’s sense of cheerfulness.

Book review

“Energy transition” does not mean what you think it does

A French scholar shows that when new sources of energy become prominent, the old ones are generally not phased out.

Our view

Women are leading change

Around the world, women are campaigning against inequality and the abuse of power to achieve more democracy and freedom for all. Yet many of their successes go largely unnoticed.

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Global environment

Irreversible climate disaster

Earth is in a perilous state because bad-faith propaganda of interest groups tends to outweigh good-faith research by scientists

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International conferences in 2025

Important international conferences in 2025 in the field of global development

Research

Why and how we should question growth

Debates on the feasibility of continuous economic growth have increased. Thinking about degrowth models to reduce material consumption and production in richer countries must strongly involve lower-income countries to avoid a neo-colonial agenda.

Overcoming colonialism

Cooperation, not assistance: overcoming colonial patterns

What would it look like to engage in fair international cooperation that does not uphold colonial structures? That is the question that participants considered at a BMZ event in Berlin. Many called for a new approach to improve partnerships.

Social media

European democracies under attack from North America

The time has come to apply the EU’s Digital Services Act with determination

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