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Sustainability

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

Boro Baski
Boro Baski

Why some Indian famers are backing away from rice cultivation

In West Bengal, the green revolution made high-yielding rice cultivation attractive. Four decades later, the associated environmental problems have increased – and the climate crisis is further compounding them.

Financing of terrorism
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

Dangerous cash flow

How so-called Sharia states influence the west through business and finance the export of their radical ideologies

Call for Papers and Inputs

PEGNet Conference 2018

Improving the quality of education and learning outcomes in developing countries

Development work
Verena Stamm

Stolen childhood

The Fondation Stamm is trying to give orphans and street children in Burundi the chance of a better life

Our view
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Creating equal opportunities

The pledge to leave no one behind should apply to children in particular

MENA region
Monika Hellstern

Incoherent German approach

A new study by the German Development Institute argues that Germany’s aid to the MENA region lacks strategy and coherence

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Reconsidering structural adjustment

We must learn from success stories

World trade
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Trump bullies and blackmails

The international community should unite against Trump’s irresponsible trade policy

Social media
Drake Jamali

When the government spreads fake news

Because of fake news regarding Ukraine and Syria, regular Russian citizens no longer know what is going on

Limits to growth
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Preventing systemic collapse

Club of Rome report calls for a new enlightenment for the "full world"

Asian economies
Yasuyuki Sawada
Cyn-Young Park
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

New cross-border competition policy

ADB economists see need for multilateral rules to guide internet businesses

Poverty Reduction

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

Why some Indian famers are backing away from rice cultivation
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Lessons of failure
The problems with Glyphosate
Why pesticides are more a curse than a blessing

Gender Equality

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

Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda
Why you might find our newsletter useful
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.

Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance

Sustainability

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

Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance