Sustainability

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

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.

Official development assistance

Failing “failed” states

According to Oxfam, donors are neglecting fragile states

World Bank

More responsibility for developing countries

How voice reform came about at the World Bank

World Social Forum

Near flop

The World Social Forum was about to flop

Health

Dedicated at first, discouraged later

State intervention is undermining Ghana’s succesful health microinsurance schemes

Editorial

Spectacular success

Why civil society and the private sector are inter-related

Poverty

Precarious balance

Poverty is more than a mere lack of material goods

Technological competitiveness
Electric power

Difficult switches

Difficult switches: African deserts could generate electric power for Europe

International migration

Brazil in the war for talent

Brazil in the war for talent

Fighting poverty

“A strong policy statement”

KenInvest supports small businesses to become engines of growth in Kenya

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.