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Sustainability

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

Susanne Neubert
Susanne Neubert

The problems with Glyphosate

Pesticides have often caused controversy because their detrimental side-effects were initially ignored and later intentionally played down. The most recent example is probably the herbicide Glyphosate/Roundup.

Reforming technical cooperation
Tom Pätz

Breathing organisation

Reforming technical cooperation

Transport
Berthold Volberg

Driving growth

Smart logisitics can boost private-sector development in SADC countries

Cross-border cooperation
Simone Claar
Andreas Nölke

Deep integration

Even though deep integration could serve developing countries, the strategy is politically controversial

Financial Markets
Robert Elsen

Cooperation is essential

In order to prevent future crises, financial-market oversight must operate at an international level

Relevant reading
Dirk Reinhard

Small means, massive impact

Review: relevant reading on microinsurance

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Ask Obama

The rights to deposit savings, access credit and enjoy insurance protection

Afghanistan

Engaging with the Taliban

Afghanistan conference in London: talking to the Taliban

Coffee
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Shared interest

Germany’s distorted coffee market

Managing for results
Stefan Schmitz

Comprehensive thinking

Managing for results is about rethinking how aid is distributed and made use of

Microfinance
Maxime Prud'Homme
Bakary Traoré

Innovations in Sikasso

Health mutual MUSARS runs microinsurance scheme in southern Mali

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.

How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue
Overshadowed by the “Big Three”

Sustainability

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

How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue
Overshadowed by the “Big Three”