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Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

Stella Tushabe

Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda

Marie Rosine Ntabomvura, a mother of three, in Kigali, defies gender stereotypes that prescribe roles and abilities based on gender. When she turns the wheel of the humongous 60-seater town-bound bus, nothing about her skill suggests that she is intimidated by...

Qualifications
Gabi Waibel
Lutz Schrader

Development service as a place of learning

On mission, German development workers acquire skills, and better documentation would serve their careers

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

China’s aid lending is neither entirely good nor totally bad

Forum on China-Africa Cooperation

Financial markets
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Turkey’s lira in downward spiral

Trump has not caused Turkey’s financial problems, but he is compounding them

IMF
Carlos Albuquerque

Brazil's IMF experience

In similar settings, Brazil’s experience with the IMF was much better than Argentina’s

Schools
Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu

More must happen

Literacy rates have risen in sub-Saharan Africa, but reality is probably worse than official numbers suggest

Public health
Benjamin M. Kagina
Hannah Hussey
Rudzani Muloiwa
Gregory D. Hussey

Immunising Africa

Immunisation programmes are making a huge difference in Africa

Global data
Homi Kharas
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

“We can end extreme poverty”

Tracking global poverty on a daily basis

Our view
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Longer and better lives

Why nationalism and zero-sum thinking add up to a recipe for disaster

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

It is still too early to assess the future of NAFTA

Trump exaggerates what USA has achieved in talks with Mexico

Demographic change
Alisa Kaps
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Lives are now 20 years longer

Birth rates go down as standards of living improve

Poverty Reduction

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

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Lessons of failure
The problems with Glyphosate
Why pesticides are more a curse than a blessing
More financial support for college students

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda
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The hard lot of old people
Women, climate and chocolate
Justice for victims of rape

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Risking collapse
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Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

Risking collapse
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system