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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.

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.

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

December’s opportunities

Trade and climate: December’s opportunities

WTO
Jagdish Bhagwati

“Agree on a deadline: February 2012”

Jagdish Bhagwati says preferential trade agreements fly in face of reality

Financial services
Peter Hauff

Small servings save development

German municipal savings banks in defence of microfinance

Trade policy

Opening markets is not enough

EPAs: Why free trade alone doesn’t make an economy grow

Safety nets
Vera Dicke

Beyond charity

Social security must not stay a luxury item

Comment
Jayati Ghosh

Summit? What summit?

G20 language does not paper over disagreement

West Africa
Mohamed Gueye

The long road to emancipation

Why Africans do not worry about slow EPA progress too much

Regional Integration
Kiranne Guddoy

Caribbean challenges

The EU's Economic Partnership Agreement with Cariforum has not made much progress yet

Climate protection
Peter Hauff

Difficult business

Challenging business: CDM application in Indonesia

Comment
Ursula Schäfer-Preuss

Close the gaps

Why development policymakers must not neglect Asia

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