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Sustainability

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

Raphael Mweninguwe

Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers

EcoGen, a Malawian start-up, transforms animal waste into biogas and bio-fertiliser, providing farmers with affordable energy and sustainable farming solutions. This innovation helps reduce reliance on firewood and chemical fertilisers.

Global Governance
Jaleel Ahmad

New centres of gravity

A note on global-governance reform

World Bank
Qays Hamad

The World Bank’s comeback

World Bank business is expanding due to global crisis

Review
Ingar Düring
Dorothea Rischewski

Equal rights

Relevant Reading: disabilities and development

Infrastructure
Ronjon Chakrabarti
Rainer Mutschler-Burghard

Progress despite political instability

Progress made in monitoring Nepali rivers in spite of poltical turmoil

Comment
Peter Strack

Fatal politics

Fatal politics

Interview
Wolfgang Meyer

“The leadership is nervous”

China’s policy in the global finance turmoil

Inclusive society
Maria V. Reina

“Stigma matters a lot”

Enabling the disabled serves development in general

Health
David Whiting

Diabetes as a development issue

Diabetes is becoming ever more common in developing countries

Assessing results
Liane Asta Lohde

Complex set of factors

IFC evaluates developmental success

Energy
Karin Boschert
Nina V. Michaelis

The right way to do it

The conditions for sensible use of bioenergy according to German scientists

Poverty Reduction

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

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
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Financing development and climate goals

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