Sustainability

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

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Failure is unaffordable

If humanity fails to fund the SDG agenda appropriately, all nations will suffer and none will be great

CPS

The Civil Peace Service turns 20

CPS experts bring knowledge and an outsider’s perspective to conflicts

Blog

When border-security forces are a cause of flight

In regard to democracy promotion, western governments’ credibility currently looks dented

A case study

A family’s blessing

Psychologists’ own mental templates can distort their assessments of people from different backgrounds

Cultural specificity

Cultural determinants of ‘reality’

In many cultures, the only acceptable way to express mental distress is to point to a physical problem

Public health

Preventable diseases

Malawi’s health sector is doing a good job in combatting neglected tropical diseases

Blog

Sudan is not China

Western media under-estimate the extent to which China opened up under authoritarian rule after the Tiananmen Square massacre

Vocational training

Front-face customer care

Why vocational training matters in Nairobi’s public-transport industry, and why young women in particular deserve job opportunities

Development finance

Principles traded for efficiency

A new study finds that the AIIB may undermine multilateral bank standards, and that Europe’s members can save them

Inequality

How addictive behaviours are linked to inequality

A new book by two British scholars explores the negative impacts that social inequality has on mental health

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.