Sustainability

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

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating

In Kolkata and elsewhere, the ecological problems are already huge. The climate crisis is exacerbating poverty and inequality.

Editorial

Spectacular success

Why civil society and the private sector are inter-related

Poverty

Precarious balance

Poverty is more than a mere lack of material goods

Technological competitiveness
Electric power

Difficult switches

Difficult switches: African deserts could generate electric power for Europe

International migration

Brazil in the war for talent

Brazil in the war for talent

Fighting poverty

“A strong policy statement”

KenInvest supports small businesses to become engines of growth in Kenya

Protests in the Arab World

Holiday paradise and police state

Why Ben Ali fell and the West is not in favour in Tunisia

Food security

Pre-programmed hunger

Food prices keeping rising

Donor countries

Bucking the trend

The British government is cutting spending, but not ODA

Gender

Against the odds

Women entrepreneurs face gender-spefic challenges – for instance in Bangladesh