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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.

Disscussing the merits of aid
Volker Seitz

Less would be more

Less aid might deliver more to Africa

Poverty alleviation
K. P. Kannan

“Employment in lean seasons”

Employment guarantees are boosting rural development in India

Preventing poverty
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Dirty shoes

Microinsurance schemes could protect 3 billion people from harm

Dissatisfaction with donor policies
Andrew Mwenda

“Civic and political struggle”

Uganda’s Andrew Mwenda critisises conventional donor approaches to development

Comparing economies
Nina V. Michaelis

Wealth measurement 2.0

Better ways to assess a nation’s welfare

Disscussing the merits of aid
Helmut Danner

Questions of heart and mind

African development debate takes little interest in Dambisa Moyo’s critisim of donors

Climate
Eleonore von Bothmer

Invest now!

World Development Report calls for climate-related investments

Leather processing
Christian Dietsche
Nicole Reps

Old industry, ­very slow change

The pros and cons of world-market orientation in India’s leather industries

Europe
Werner Menski

Questionable inclusion, appalling exclusion

The UK’s unacknowledged reality of legal pluralism

Food
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Yet more hunger

More than 1 billion people are suffering hunger

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”