Sustainability

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

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.

Can progress be bad?

Report of Survival International reveals many drawbacks indigenous people are exposed to

Private sector

Better skilled employees

Why it makes sense for companies to invest in their staff’s skills

Urban environment

No car is clean

Taking half the cars off the road in Delhi helps to reduce air pollution

Refugees

Reducing what makes people flee

Experts from the DIE think tank want conflict prevention and peacekeeping to be at the centre of development policies

Muslim thought can be less authoritarian than mostly assumed

Reviving Islam’s legacy of pluralism and tolerance

Human rights

Afghan unrest affects neighbour

Millions of refugees and IDPs strain Pakistan’s resources

Middle East

Scrambling against decline

Saudi Arabia’s anti-Iran stance looks desperate

Military affairs

War technologically transformed

Drones and robots are increasingly marking warfare

Syria

Many dimensions

Scholar explains why Syria crisis is so complex and so hard to resolve

Refugee crisis

The task for this decade

Coping with the refugee crisis is developmental challenge of the decade, according to German Minister Gerd Müller

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.