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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.

Orthodox economics
Iwan J. Azis

Beyond structural reforms

The standard IFI stance on structural reforms is neither totally wrong nor entirely correct

Interview
Hans-Joachim Fuchtel

“Pool and share knowledge”

The role of the Asian Development Bank and other IFIs in the eyes of Germany’s BMZ

Business
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Risks can be minimised

Experts encourage companies to invest in Africa despite risks

PEGNet: call for papers

Regional integration in theory and practice

PEGNet: call for papers

International Monetary Fund
Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho

Back to original mission

Why emerging markets deserve more say at IMF

IMF
Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho

European discomfort

The IMF’s role in the euro crisis is awkward

HIPC Initiative
Jürgen Kaiser

Back to square one

Countries that have been granted debt relief risk renewed insolvency

Climate change
Ellen Thalman

Loss and damage gets a boost

Experts call for a global market price for carbon emissions

World economy
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Cooperation beats confrontation

In times of financial distress, countries are likely to ask for support from both established and new IFIs

Myanmar
Ellen Thalman

“Suu Kyi must extend power”

Expectations run high as Myanmar’s first freely elected parliament convenes

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
Why you might find our newsletter useful