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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.

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Ugandan election blues

Ugandan election blues

Finances
Humphrey Nkonde

Loans for living and luxury

Zambia’s middle class is weighed down by debts

Relevant reading
Michael Grimm

Debate on industrial policy

Relevant reading: World Bank economists disagree about interventionist industrial policy

Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

EU too soft on Burundi

ODA should depend on good governance

Poverty
Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau

Major breakthrough

What last year’s update of the World Bank’s poverty line means

Poverty
Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau

New poverty line better reflects reality

World Bank updated key indicator for measuring poverty

Islam
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Neglected heritage

What people should know about Islam’s pluralistic legacy

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Russia and Saudi Arabia have a lot in common

Two desperate regimes benefit from Syrian turmoil

Global governance
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

At a crossroads

What the WTO’s Nairobi summit achieved and what it did not achieve

International development banks
Bruno Wenn
Bruno Wenn
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“Sensible division of labour”

New and old IFIs can – and should – cooperate in a constructive manner

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