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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.

Social media
Eva-Maria Verfürth

The future of networking

Climate debate at Alumniportal Deutschland

Aid effectiveness
Françoise Moreau

Tackling the roots of poverty

First-ever European Report on Development focusses on fragile statehood

Microfinance
Syed Abdul Hamid
Jinnat Ara

Progress in Bangladesh

The limits of the health services microfinance institutions provide in Bangladesh

Intercultural exchange
Will Swanson

A call for real leadership

An InWEnt-intern from California compares environmental attitudes in Germany and the USA

Higher education
Oliver Schmidt
N. V. Ramana

Mind the management gap

Higher education is becoming aware of microfinance's management needs

Social Networking
Wolfgang Zenker

Personal touch, international reach

Kiva.org’s P2P approach to raising funds for microloans

Debate
Antonio Tujan Jr.

“The North’s destructive model”

For sustainable development, humanity needs new paradigm, argues expert from the Philippines

Microfinance
Dubby Mahalanobis

Tricky challenges

The complex challenges of microinsurance administration

Microfinance
Hans Dieter Seibel

“Local roots”

Why microcredit programmes should be based on local savings

Climate policy
Juliana Radler de Aquino

Thank you, Copenhagen

Why Copenhagen meant progress for Brazil on climate matters

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”