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Development and cooperation

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

E + Z

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.

Financial Markets
Robert Elsen

Cooperation is essential

In order to prevent future crises, financial-market oversight must operate at an international level

Relevant reading
Dirk Reinhard

Small means, massive impact

Review: relevant reading on microinsurance

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Ask Obama

The rights to deposit savings, access credit and enjoy insurance protection

Afghanistan

Engaging with the Taliban

Afghanistan conference in London: talking to the Taliban

Coffee
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Shared interest

Germany’s distorted coffee market

Managing for results
Stefan Schmitz

Comprehensive thinking

Managing for results is about rethinking how aid is distributed and made use of

Microfinance
Maxime Prud'Homme
Bakary Traoré

Innovations in Sikasso

Health mutual MUSARS runs microinsurance scheme in southern Mali

Social media
Eva-Maria Verfürth

The future of networking

Climate debate at Alumniportal Deutschland

Aid effectiveness
Françoise Moreau

Tackling the roots of poverty

First-ever European Report on Development focusses on fragile statehood

Microfinance
Syed Abdul Hamid
Jinnat Ara

Progress in Bangladesh

The limits of the health services microfinance institutions provide in Bangladesh

Poverty Reduction

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

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
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Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
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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.

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
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust

Sustainability

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

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
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust