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D + C

Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Sustainability

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

Stella Tushabe

Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda

Marie Rosine Ntabomvura, a mother of three, in Kigali, defies gender stereotypes that prescribe roles and abilities based on gender. When she turns the wheel of the humongous 60-seater town-bound bus, nothing about her skill suggests that she is intimidated by...

Pharmaceuticals
Christoph Suess

Research protects the poor

Investing in innovative pharmaceuticals to tackle poverty-related illnesses

Loans

Challenges ahead

The aspiration of TYM, Vietnam's leading microfinance institution, is to become a full-blown bank

Media development
Alexander Matschke

Freedom of expression promotes democracy

Alexander Matschke: Promoting free media is a task for development policy

Multilateral affairs
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Global stability

Industrurialised countries must spell out how they intend to fulfil funding pledges made at UN climate summits

Comment
Christian Schmidt

Global responsibility

Christian Schmidt, Germany’s federal minister for food and agriculture, calls for determined action to tackle hunger

Lifelong learning
Werner Eggert

Online follow-up

After face-to-face seminars have ended, development agencies should continue journalistic training online

Print edition

Contents December issue

D+C/E+Z: Contents page of December’s print edition with links to all contributions

Donor policy
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Comprehensive approach

EU needs new strategy to tackle foreign, security and development affairs in an inter-connected manner

Infrastructure
Hans-Christoph Neidlein

Renewable energy

Obstacles to expanding renewable energy in Pakistan

Energy efficiency
Stephan Opitz

Quantum leap for ­climate protection

Energy-efficiency measures can contribute to covering the global energy demand

Poverty Reduction

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

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Lessons of failure
The problems with Glyphosate
Why pesticides are more a curse than a blessing
More financial support for college students

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