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Development and cooperation

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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...

Tuberculosis
Vera Dicke

Saving lives through discipline

Tuberculosis remains a huge challenge in Central Asia

Multilateral affairs
Jens Martens

Sharing global burdens

Rich nations want to modify the UN principle of common but differentiated responsibility

Health care
Anne Jung
Joseph Pokawa

Global responsibility

A global health fund could have prevented the spread of Ebola in West Africa

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Questions of ownership

Development success depends on national ownership

Polio disease
Friederike Bauer

The end of a long struggle

Thanks to systematic vaccination and awareness raising, India is now free of Polio

Social programmes
Linda Vierecke
Christoph Peters

Escaping need

Bolivia’s social programmes have considerably reduced extreme poverty

German policy
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Points of reference

Gerd Müller, Germany’s federal minister for economic cooperation and development, launches Charter for the Future

News

In brief

Regime change in Burkina Faso / G20 demand action on climate change

Senegal
Abdou Lo

Higher learning and elections

Why Senegal, a small country, is good at providing international organisations with leaders

Measuring success
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Counting statistics

Why the World Bank is right to call for improved statistics

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
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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.

Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
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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