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Sozialpolitik, Sozialentwicklung
Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Ask Obama

The rights to deposit savings, access credit and enjoy insurance protection

Microfinance
Maxime Prud'Homme
Bakary Traoré

Innovations in Sikasso

Health mutual MUSARS runs microinsurance scheme in southern Mali

Microfinance
Dubby Mahalanobis

Tricky challenges

The complex challenges of microinsurance administration

Microfinance
Hans Dieter Seibel

“Local roots”

Why microcredit programmes should be based on local savings

Research
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Work is not everything

Researches focus on decent work

Primary education
Atussa Ziai

New school books, new boost

Education sector in Pakistan has improved in the last years, yet a lot has to be done

Social networks
Clemens Greiner
Michael Schnegg

Urban-rural lifestyles

Rural-urban networking secures livelihoods

Focus
Prashant Bhushan

“Failing the common people”

Campaign for Judicial Accountability in India

Focus
Stefanie Reiher
Ronny Bechmann

Syria in search of paradigm

Syria interested in German model of the social market economy

Review
Ingar Düring
Dorothea Rischewski

Equal rights

Relevant Reading: disabilities and development

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Poverty Reduction

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

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
Rebounding tourism set to support Sri Lanka’s economic recovery

Gender Equality

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

Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
Modern dowry payment in Kenya
Mexico’s first female president
Women-led businesses suffer most
Why you might find our newsletter useful

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