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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.

Food security
Vera Dicke

Dangerous volatility

Mixed messages from Global Hunger Index 2011

Transport
Prabir De

Great ambitions

India’s government is mobilising private capital to boost the nation’s infrastructure

Managing for results
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Uncharted territory

Results-based aid: opportunities of an innovative approach

Comment
Anthony Mulowa

“More money in your pockets”

After tough rhetoric in the election campaign, Zambia’s new President Sata must cooperate with the Chinese

Adaptation to climate change
Merle Becker

Taming the dragon

Too little is being done to adapt countries to climate change – especially in Africa

Global norms
Korinna Horta

Crucial environmental and social standards

The IFC could do more to promote social and environmental standards

Mobilising capital
Andrew Gaines

Reassuring investors by insuring them

Subsidised insurances could encourage investors to fund businesses in developing countries

Comment
Sachin Chaturvedi

Move on

Donors must move to make High Level Forum on Aid Effectivenss succeed

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Aptly chosen

Enough to do for Germany’s Development Ministry in the next ten years

Latin America
Eva-Maria Verfürth

Rebellion against market radicalism

Protesters in Chile call for social reform and more government intervention

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