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Development and cooperation

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Sustainability

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

Ipil Monica Baski

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.

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.

HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy

Gender Equality

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

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
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Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition

Governance

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

HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges

Sustainability

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

HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges