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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.

Waste management
Roshan Sharma

Living amidst filth

Waste management has not kept up with Kathmandu’s fast growth

Waste management
Roshan Sharma

Part of a system

Landfills are only one component of waste management

Winter Olympics
Jane Buchanan

Troubled legacy

IOC promises to learn lessons from human-rights abuses in Sochi

Recycling
Oliver Möllenstädt

A system for collecting waste

How a local initiative is encouraging waste pickers in Mumbai to contribute to up-to-date plastics recycling

Asia
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Multilateral banks honeymoon

The first co-financing effort looks promising, but ADB and AIIB may yet become fierce adversaries

Social and environmental standards
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Let’s race to the top

NGOs praise ADB for environmental and social safeguards but want better implementation

Comment
Jennifer Dube

Robbed of a role model

South African President Jacob Zuma rocks the confidence of the whole region

Human security
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Transatlantic cooperation

Transatlantic cooperation should contribute to more reliability in the world’s food supply

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

ADB and AIIB share interest in infrastructure

Changing landscape of development finance

International cooperation
Sylvia Schenk
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“Basic principles of compliance”

How to fight corruption in sport

Poverty Reduction

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

What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
Fundamental human right under attack
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”

Gender Equality

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

What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
Modern dowry payment in Kenya

Governance

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

Waithood – endless adolescence
“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

Sustainability

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

Waithood – endless adolescence
“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