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Sustainability

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

Pamela Cruz
Pamela Cruz

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.

International cooperation
Leon Valentin Schettler

The dark side of aid

The time is ripe to reform development cooperation with Haiti

Health and safety
Philip Aruna
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

“I am passionate about humanitarian work”

Interventions in crisis regions involve several personal risks for the helpers

Disasters
Glenn Brigaldino

Resilience makes sense

Local-level action can help communities at risk to cope with disasters

Rural development
Drake Jamali

Harnessing off-grid power

Off-grid solutions serve to plug gaps in electric power supply

Sustainability
Drake Jamali

Energy shift

Carbon pricing can drive international transformation to sustainability

Investment climate
Drake Jamali

Budding businesses

In Burundi, SMEs want to make a difference

Horn of Africa
Ludger Schadomsky

Huge challenge

To bring reconciliation to his troubled nation, Ethiopia’s new prime minister will need stamina

Letter to the editor
Frank Bliss

The quirks of misguided decentralisation in Benin

Reader continues discussions of our focus section “Tax disputes”

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Argentina, financial turmoil and the AIIB

Central Bank in Buenos Aires raises interest rates to 40 %

Agriculture
Raphael Mweninguwe

Local seeds resist climate change better

Farmers in Malawi realise that traditional local seed varieties are better suited to withstand droughts

Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector
Rebounding tourism set to support Sri Lanka’s economic recovery

Gender Equality

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

Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
Modern dowry payment in Kenya
Mexico’s first female president
Women-led businesses suffer most
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Governance

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

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts

Sustainability

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

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts