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Development and cooperation

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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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

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating. The impacts on her country are already quite bad.

Energy
Will Swanson

Biofuels’ hidden costs

Energy: Biofuel's hidden costs

Social networks
Clemens Greiner
Michael Schnegg

Urban-rural lifestyles

Rural-urban networking secures livelihoods

Assessing results
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Much activity, but no system

Assessing results: much activity, but no system in Germany's development cooperation

Lawlessness
John Emeka Akude

Recipe for strife

The causes of West African militia violence

Climate
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Unexplored dephts

Climate: The unexplored dephts of the sea

Comment
Claudia Isabel Rittel

EU fails to take a stand

EU bears responsibilty for Italy’s rabid policy on migration

Op-ed views

Inclusive governance

Indian op-ed pages explain Congress triumph

International financial architecture
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Restore the balance of market and state

Stiglitz Commission calls for new paradigms for global economy

CIA
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Proof of torture

Will CIA torturers go unpunished?

Climate Change
Dirk Messner

“Even poorest countries must cut carbon emissions”

Even poorest countries must reduce carbon emissions

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