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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...

Expanding market
Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles

Business dimensions

The Internet's business relevance has grown dramatically in the Philippines

Global governance
Erik Solheim

“Investigate internationally”

Erik Solheim of the OECD wants rich nations to step up the fight against illicit financial flows

Stemming corruption
Michael Ruffert

Government watchdogs

Uganda's supreme auditors put a check on illicit financial flows

Amazonia
Hannah Milberg

Participatory conservation

Participatory conservation: involving local people in the management of nature reserves

Local government
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Profile of Abdel Mughni Nofal

In the Palestinian territories, the Municipal Development and Lending Fund is boosting governmental accountability

Digital technology
Doris Köhn

“Improving people’s lives”

Doris Köhn: Governmental transparency and public participation serve development

Aid
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

On the edge of chaos

Ben Ramalingam criticises aid agencies' 19th century world view and wants them to rise to the challenges of complexity

European Union
Floreana Miesen

In need of harmonisation

Scholars warn that European development efforts are not sufficiently coordinated

Letters

Public responses

D+C/E+Z Feedback from our readers

Scholarship
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

New challenges

Stephan Klingebiel argues that development policy must adapt to a changing world

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.

Risking collapse
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Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system

Sustainability

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

Risking collapse
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system