Sustainability

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

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Summer Special

Timbuktu – a story of heroes and myths

How Timbuktu’s ancient manuscripts were rescued from Islamist destruction adds to the myths shrouding the desert city

Informal work

Better education and training

More education is crucial to create less informal and more formal work

Summer Special

The value of 158 varieties of cauliflower

Documentary calls attention to the massive loss of edible plants

Development policy

A measure of SDG finance

OECD is working on a new way to measure SDG finance

ODA

Beyond the threshold

Far fewer countries will be eligible to receive ODA in the future – that means problems for SDG finance

Blog

More pressure is likely to make Iran’s regime more reckless

How to respond to the Hormuz Strait tanker crisis

Multilateral agenda

Unprecedented – but underfunded

The SDGs cannot be achieved unless that agenda is properly financed in low-income countries

Our view

Changing roles

A long socialisation process is still needed to make equality between women and men a reality

European migration policy

Risks and side-effects

The EU should not cooperate with shady governments on migration policy – it should support civil-society projects instead

ODA

The end of certainties

The dominance of migration targets is the defining change in development policy

Governance

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

Sustainability

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