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Development and cooperation

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

E + Z

Sustainability

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

Javier A. Cisterna Figueroa

Latin America is burning

Year after year, valuable ecosystems are destroyed by wildfires. This drives climate change and decimates biodiversity. Slash-and-burn agriculture is partly to blame.

Indigenous communities
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Annegret Mähler
Gabriele Neusser

Explosive matter

Bolivia’s policy on natural gas and oil is conflict prone

Africa and Latin America
Pedro Morazán
Marie Müller

Fair gold

Ways to improve small-scale miners’ tough fate in Peru and the DR Congo

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Do two things at once

Regulate extractive industries and make them serve the nation

Interview
Peter Eigen

“A lot to be done”

The agenda of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative remains daunting

Africa Progress Report 2012
Floreana Miesen

“Jobs, justice and equity”

Four challenges African policymakers must rise to

European Report on Development
Peter Hauff

Coping with scarcities

European Report on Development focusses on the scarcity of water, energy and land

Comment
Olayinka Oyegbile

More serious worries

ECOWAS has not come to grips with Mali's crisis – nor has the international community

West Africa
Floreana Miesen

Blood diamonds

Blood diamonds fuelled Sierra Leone's civil war

Crisis areas
Aditi Roy Ghatak
Aditi Roy Ghatak

State of conflict

Some regions in India face the same problems resource-rich fragile states have

Rule of law
Henning Melber

On the state of the state

States must provide more than favourable environments for markets

Poverty Reduction

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

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

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

The hard lot of old people
Women, climate and chocolate
Justice for victims of rape
How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?
How GIZ gets young people moving

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure

Sustainability

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

Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure