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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 finance institution
Akinwumi Adesina

“Africa’s youth must be employed in Africa”

The policy aspiration of Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank

Renewable energy
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Emerging markets overtake industrialised states

Record investments in solar, wind and hydropower

Agriculture
Maxwell Suuk

The vegetable dispute

Vegetable farmers in Ghana are having a hard time

Minorities
Christopher Minko
Bophea Smith

The power of sports

Playing in a team fosters disabled athletes’ health, self esteem and social integration

Relevant reading
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Analogue limits of digital growth

Two recent publications - including one from the World Bank - explain why digitalisation, in itself, does not bring about human development

Law
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

Everyday violence against the poor

How everyday violence locks poor people into poverty and what needs to be done about it

Extremist threats
Tawfik Jelassi

Tunisia deserves attention and support

Tunisia’s young democracy deserves support in its struggle against extremism and poverty

Innovation
Simon Unterschütz

Mobilising and motivating investors

GIZ’s lab of tomorrow allows experts to develop new digital solutions for developing countries’ problems

Human rights
Ridwanul Hoque

“A situation of bonded labour”

Many Bangladeshi migrants are exploited abroad

Commodity prices
Nassir Djafari

Explosive issue

Unless commodity exporting countries diversify their economies, crises loom

Poverty Reduction

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
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

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.

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
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”

Sustainability

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
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”