Sustainability

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

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...

Debt restructuring

Alternative structural adjustment

The IMF needs to reform if it wants to maintain its legitimacy

Economic policy

Interfering in national sovereignty

Shortcomings and weaknesses of the structural-adjustment measures of recent decades

Development strategies

New paradigm needed

The root causes of African indebtedness are still the same

Failed policies

Descent into hell

In Africa, structural adjustment did not trigger fast growth, but had a contractive impact

Development strategy

Multiple adjustment needs

The World Bank's mission is about more than crisis management

Fighting poverty

Successful debt relief

Lessons learned concerning multilateral debt relief

Summer Special

“Just being born a woman is a provocation”

French-Moroccan novelist holds up a mirror to a hypocritical society

International financial institutions

More efficient multilateralism

IMF and Worldbank must heed lessons of past decades

Our view

This time, they must get it right

In view of rising interest rates and growing debt levels, the lessons of past structural-adjustment policies are of great relevance

Policy doctrines

Straight talk on economics

Harvard economist Dani Rodrik demands policy space for developing countries

Governance

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

Sustainability

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