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Sustainability

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

Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector

Mexico owes many of its tourist attractions to its wealth of indigenous communities. It is important that they are included in the country’s tourism industry in a sustainable, respectful and empowering way.

Development strategy

“People have created poverty”

Anthropologist reframes poverty the result of plundering by a few people in rich countries at poor countries’ expense

Organised crime

Paradigm change

To protect people from harm, the Global Commission argues that drugs should be regulated not prohibited

World Bank Report on work, social protection and taxes

State action to facilitate market dynamics

Food security

Pioneering urban agriculture

How “production in the community, by the community, for the community” became the paradigm of agricultural policy in Cuba

Finance

The SDGs and the private sector

Study of German civil-society organisations claims that the 2030 Agenda needs to be safeguarded against corporate interference

In defence of the SDGs

Excessive suspicion of private-sector interests does not help

International finance institution

Dangerous transformation

World Bank can do more lending – and charges more interest rates

Multilateral bank

Reform gone wrong

The World Bank’s social and environmental standards have been weakened significantly

The IPCC, Bolsonaro, Trump and Kavanaugh

Climate change and the rise of right-wing populism

International relations

Reconsidering development cooperation

The aid system must adapt to a fast changing world and rise to new challenges