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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.

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Do more

Development agencies have their work cut out

Aid effectiveness
Andrea von Rauch

Ownership by way of expertise

Capacity building on the aid-effectiveness agenda

Meaningful aid
Eduardo Araral

“A helping hand, not a grabbing one”

Lessons learned from Asian success

Development finance
Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann

Preventing unsustainable debt

Due to global crisis, over-indebtedness looms large

Aid effectiveness
Arnaldo Pellini
John Young

Taking research into account

Research-based evidence could make a difference

Misbehaving donor agencies
Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau
Tuon Thavrak

Dinosaurs at work

Donor agencies do not adhere to aid-effectiveness principles in Cambodia

German development policy

Fighting poverty, promoting responsibility

Development policy of Germany’s new government emphasises national ownership and the fight against poverty

Disscussing the merits of aid
Volker Seitz

Less would be more

Less aid might deliver more to Africa

Poverty alleviation
K. P. Kannan

“Employment in lean seasons”

Employment guarantees are boosting rural development in India

Preventing poverty
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Dirty shoes

Microinsurance schemes could protect 3 billion people from harm

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