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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.

Global role model
Korinna Horta

Rolling back protection

The World Bank plans to dilute its social and environmental standards

Free trade
Frederico Füllgraf

Better without the TPP

Opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is growing

Global economy
Iwan J. Azis

Deepening uncertainty

New and old international financial institutions are likely to be tested in 2016

Orthodox economics
Iwan J. Azis

Beyond structural reforms

The standard IFI stance on structural reforms is neither totally wrong nor entirely correct

Interview
Hans-Joachim Fuchtel

“Pool and share knowledge”

The role of the Asian Development Bank and other IFIs in the eyes of Germany’s BMZ

Business
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Risks can be minimised

Experts encourage companies to invest in Africa despite risks

PEGNet: call for papers

Regional integration in theory and practice

PEGNet: call for papers

International Monetary Fund
Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho

Back to original mission

Why emerging markets deserve more say at IMF

IMF
Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho

European discomfort

The IMF’s role in the euro crisis is awkward

HIPC Initiative
Jürgen Kaiser

Back to square one

Countries that have been granted debt relief risk renewed insolvency

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”