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The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies has an explicit focus on sustainability.

Good News

Successful activism and WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies

The two pieces of good news this month are about the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies and on examples of activism that is paying off.

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Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo wants the state to generate the revenues it needs.

National revenue services

Broaden the base; close loopholes

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by Stefanie Rauscher
by Hans Dembowski

Reasons for trusting D+C in the era of “fake news”

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by Hans Dembowski

Our view

What good governance depends on

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by Hans Dembowski
Experts agree on the need for industrial policy: freighters transport tropical timber along the Congo near Kinshasa in the DR Congo.

Industrial policy

Pragmatism instead of ideology

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by Tilman Altenburg
by Wilfried Lütkenhorst
Wari Sanda from Nigeria suffers from river blindness. His son Barmani accompanies him whenever he goes out. Nigeria has the highest infection rates for neglected tropical diseases in Africa.

Neglected tropical diseases

Networking instead of silo mentality

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by Esther Dopheide
Mangrove forests like these on the Island of Borneo are particularly at risk.

Blue Action Fund

Money to safeguard seas and coastlines

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
To keep it out of the oceans, plastic should be collected and recycled: the port in Tripoli, Libya.

Protecting the oceans

A call to action

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
A committee of the European Parliament discussing the Panama Papers in May. The Panama Papers made information about large-scale tax evasion and money laundering public.

International initiatives

Battling tax evasion

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by Nico Beckert
Protest in London in August against British mining companies that are accused, among other things, of evading taxes in Africa.

Commodities

Missing billions

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by Nico Beckert
More money for Barron, Eric, Tiffany and Ivanka Trump.

Bad governance

Democratic procedures serve a purpose

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by Hans Dembowski