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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.

Protests in the Arab World
Martina Sabra

Holiday paradise and police state

Why Ben Ali fell and the West is not in favour in Tunisia

Food security
Peter Hauff

Pre-programmed hunger

Food prices keeping rising

Donor countries
Nicolaus von der Goltz

Bucking the trend

The British government is cutting spending, but not ODA

Gender
Jinnat Ara
Syed Abdul Hamid

Against the odds

Women entrepreneurs face gender-spefic challenges – for instance in Bangladesh

Global governance
Henning Melber

Limitations of the G20

The G20 is assuming the role of the G8, yet it remains unclear what it can actually achieve

Governance
Winfried Borowczak
Friedrich Kaufmann

Private party

Mozambique is not an open access society

Comment
Vladimir Antwi-Danso

Reconstruct African governance

Gbagbo must not be allowed to prevail, but Cote d'Ivoire’s crisis is about more than only big-man politics

Investment climate
Jenny Luesby

Enlightening entrepreneurs

The Business Daily, a young Kenyan newspaper, helps to improve economic fortunes

Financial sector
Bruno Wenn
Bruno Wenn

Good opportunities in Africa

According to DEG top manager, German companies fail to grasp African opportunities

Agriculture
Aslihan Arslan
Linda Kleemann

More money for small farmers

Small farmers benefit from export strategies geared to niche 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.

The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue

Sustainability

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

The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue