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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.

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

World Bank rhetoric contributes to distorted public image

World Development Report shies away from serious conflicts of interest

Multilateral banks
Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann

New players with handicaps

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the New Development Bank (NDB) are changing the landscape of international financial institutions

2030 Agenda
Susanne Sawadogo

Ambitious minimum goals

Experts consider SDGs more ambitious than MDGs but often too vague

Development agencies
Julia Manske

Learning from other countries

International experience of digitalising the way development agencies work

Development policy
Julia Manske

Opportunities and risks

Development policymakers need to deal with digital transformation and use new technologies themselves

Inequality
Dominik Hartmann

Building bridges

Innovative interdisciplinary approaches needed to tackle digital divide and growing inequality

Research
Dominik Hartmann

New interdisciplinary approaches

Scientists look for alternative pathways

German policy
Bernd Bornhorst

Credibility test

Germany’s Federal Government needs time frame for fulfilling pledge to spend 0.7 % of GNI on aid

European Op-Ed views

Realpolitik without enthusiasm

European newspaper comments on EU-Turkey agreement on refugee issues

Peacebuilding
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

Lasting solutions

Germany’s Civil Peace Service supports non-violent conflict resolutions in order to build long-term peace

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”