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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.

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.

Health
Eleonore von Bothmer

Global lack of medical doctors

Lack of health professionals is a global challenge

Interview
Wolfgang Heinrich

“The people are tired of war”

The reasons for Ethiopia to cooperate with Somalia’s moderate Muslim leader

World economy
Mohamed Gueye

Need for African action

African leaders must rise to global crisis

Comment
Peter Bosshard

Diluted norms

Imminent dilution of the standards defined by the World Commission on Dams

Aid effectiveness
Julia Steets
Kristina Thomsen

Scope for better assessment

Scope for better country assessments at the World Bank

Global Governance
Jaleel Ahmad

New centres of gravity

A note on global-governance reform

World Bank
Qays Hamad

The World Bank’s comeback

World Bank business is expanding due to global crisis

Review
Ingar Düring
Dorothea Rischewski

Equal rights

Relevant Reading: disabilities and development

Infrastructure
Ronjon Chakrabarti
Rainer Mutschler-Burghard

Progress despite political instability

Progress made in monitoring Nepali rivers in spite of poltical turmoil

Comment
Peter Strack

Fatal politics

Fatal politics

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
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Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

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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?

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue
Overshadowed by the “Big Three”
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly

Sustainability

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

Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue
Overshadowed by the “Big Three”
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly