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Development and cooperation

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Latin America and the Caribbean

Poverty reduction
Dominik Hartmann

Meaningful help for self-help

Conditional cash transfers complement microcredit schemes in Brazil

Prejudice
Veronika Deffner

Second class citizens

Brazilian Favelas’ reputation for crime is overblown and undeserved

Post-conflict society
Eva-Maria Verfürth

Excellent work for women

The advantages of having many women in Nicaragua’s police force

Technological competitiveness
Lívia Fioravanti
Fabiola Vásquez
Karen Rivas
Janaína César

“New knowledge and new contacts”

Efforts to boosting innovation in Latinamerika

Press clippings

Lost credibility

International media on elections in Haiti: Lost credibility

World affairs
Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho

“I’m not sure the G20 will survive”

Brazililan economist: „I am not sure the G20 will survive“

Aid effectiveness
Jeffrey Matuella

Well intended, yet harmful

Unless local people assume ownership, development projects are meaningless

Democracy and human rights
Bettina von Dungen

Include the indigenous

Perus economy is growing, while ecological aspects are neglected. This affects especially indigenous people

Comment
Klaus Schaeffler

Rigged elections

Gerrymandering has hurt Venezuela’s opposition in recent elections

Energy policy
Eva-Maria Verfürth

26 lonely rangers

Latin America lacks a coherent energy policy

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Poverty Reduction

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

Burundi’s struggling tourism: Parks and reserves under threat
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

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