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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.

Dissatisfaction with donor policies
Andrew Mwenda

“Civic and political struggle”

Uganda’s Andrew Mwenda critisises conventional donor approaches to development

Comparing economies
Nina V. Michaelis

Wealth measurement 2.0

Better ways to assess a nation’s welfare

Disscussing the merits of aid
Helmut Danner

Questions of heart and mind

African development debate takes little interest in Dambisa Moyo’s critisim of donors

Climate
Eleonore von Bothmer

Invest now!

World Development Report calls for climate-related investments

Leather processing
Christian Dietsche
Nicole Reps

Old industry, ­very slow change

The pros and cons of world-market orientation in India’s leather industries

Europe
Werner Menski

Questionable inclusion, appalling exclusion

The UK’s unacknowledged reality of legal pluralism

Food
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Yet more hunger

More than 1 billion people are suffering hunger

Comment
Albert Recknagel

Unsatisfying results

2oth anniversary of UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Doing Business Report

Leaps forwards

How to promote the private sector

Common pool resources
Eduardo Araral

Overcoming a tragedy

Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom’s contribution to develpment theory and policies

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