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

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Public finance

Patriotic funds

African Development Bank considers Diaspora bonds promising for sub-Saharan governments

World market

Low wages are not all

Latin America is leading according to a new ranking of promising markets and potential production sites

Multilateral policymaking

Quantum leap

Dirk Niebel says the next development goals must go beyond the MDG agenda and include sustainability

Trade union

No Revolution

Foxconn to improve workers’ representation a bit, but labour relations in China will not change dramatically

Entrepreneurship

Village money

In Honduras, the promotion of entrepreneurship based on locally available assets is boosting development

Global governance

Climate refugees

Climate change is causing displacement, and the international community lacks rules on the issue

Commodities

To whom belong the bounties of the world?

The scramble for resources poses many ethical questions – and cooperation is anything but unusual

International Finance Institutions

Most relevant review

The World Bank is reviewing its social and environmental Safeguards – and civil society organisations fear dilution

Intervention

Françafrique à la Hollande

Mali needs more than military assistance, and nation-building is a long-term affair

Crisis prevention

Evaluation and quality control

For reasons of politics and methodology, it is especially challenging to evaluate peacebuilding operations

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.