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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.

EU neighbourhood
Michael Schwartzkopff

Conservation challenge

Conservation challenge

Hotels
Elke Zimmermann

Slow death

Water prices, the Dead Sea and Jordan’s lush hotel oases

Angola
Johannes Beck

Troublesome legacy

Angola’s poverty persists as oil exports boom

Interview
Kishore Mahbubani

“An honest audit is overdue”

Kishore Mahbubani challenges aid agencies to rely more on Asian capacities

Global statistics
Angelika Wirtz

Careful data management

Disasters and the challenges of database management

Indeces
Emily Calaminus

Broadening the perspective

Pitfalls of using indicators to measure democracy

Poverty reduction
Uwe Singer
Markus Wauschkuhn

Goals that make a difference

Accurately assessing the MDGs and meaningful goals beyond

Rural development
René Gommes
Jürgen Grieser

Protecting small farmers

Crop-insurance schemes make sense where there is sufficient data

The euro crisis
Ellen Thalman

The gap is narrowing

Global repercussions of Greece’s debt crisis

Statistics
Sebastian Muah

“The state of our nation”

The differences made by Liberia's first census in 24 years

Poverty Reduction

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

Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector
Rebounding tourism set to support Sri Lanka’s economic recovery
Why tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka peaked in 2018
Mexico’s first female president
Prioritise international solidarity over national interests

Gender Equality

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

Mexico’s first female president
Women-led businesses suffer most
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Why the acronym BIPoC does not have to explain anything
Defending the progress made

Governance

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

Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts
ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities
Imagine top judges in Africa or Asia ruling like the US Supreme Court
Turning point in sanctions policy

Sustainability

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

Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts
ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities
Imagine top judges in Africa or Asia ruling like the US Supreme Court
Turning point in sanctions policy