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Regierungsführung
Interview
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie

“Help to get on our own feet”

Indonesian lessons for the Arab world

Good governance
Berthold M. Kuhn
Berthold M. Kuhn

Tricky benchmarking

The challenge of assessing measures designed to promote better governance

Comment
Andreas Jacobs

Revolution without change of power

Egypt's revolution without change of power

Public Finance
Omari Issa

“Taxes don’t bother investors much”

Why investors do not worry much about developing countries’ tax rates

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Why taxes serve prosperity

No representation without taxation

Taxation
Astrid Templin
Matthias Witt

Trust in the state

A good tax system promotes people’s trust in the state

Decentralisation
Tim Auracher
Budi Sitepu

Spending other people’s money

To become more accountable, local governments are set to collect their own taxes

Public Finance
Dirk Niebel

Simple, low and fair

Germany’s development minister: Taxes should be simple, low and fair

Public finance
Samwar S. Fallah

Re-starting from scratch

Re-starting Liberia’s tax system from scratch

Authoritarian rule
Chief K. Masimba

Technology is not the answer

It takes courage, not only facebook, to topple an autocratic government

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Poverty Reduction

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

Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
Modern dowry payment in Kenya
Mexico’s first female president
Women-led businesses suffer most

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts

Sustainability

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

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts