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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 farmers 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.

Recycling
Oliver Möllenstädt

A system for collecting waste

How a local initiative is encouraging waste pickers in Mumbai to contribute to up-to-date plastics recycling

Asia
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Multilateral banks honeymoon

The first co-financing effort looks promising, but ADB and AIIB may yet become fierce adversaries

Social and environmental standards
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Let’s race to the top

NGOs praise ADB for environmental and social safeguards but want better implementation

Comment
Jennifer Dube

Robbed of a role model

South African President Jacob Zuma rocks the confidence of the whole region

Human security
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Transatlantic cooperation

Transatlantic cooperation should contribute to more reliability in the world’s food supply

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

ADB and AIIB share interest in infrastructure

Changing landscape of development finance

International cooperation
Sylvia Schenk
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“Basic principles of compliance”

How to fight corruption in sport

International cooperation
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Monkey business

Human infants are more interested in cooperation than young apes

Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

20 million Yemenis need humanitarian aid

Warring factions are talking of peace

Television
Faiz Ullah

Money matters

Cricket has become big business in India’s emerging consumer society

Poverty Reduction

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

Why some Indian farmers 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
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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.

Success in Senegal and South Africa
Supporting local vaccine production in Africa
Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
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Sustainability

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

Success in Senegal and South Africa
Supporting local vaccine production in Africa
Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
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