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Sustainability
Poverty alleviation
K. P. Kannan

“Employment in lean seasons”

Employment guarantees are boosting rural development in India

Preventing poverty
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Dirty shoes

Microinsurance schemes could protect 3 billion people from harm

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

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Poverty Reduction

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

Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector
Rebounding tourism set to support Sri Lanka’s economic recovery
Why tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka peaked in 2018
Mexico’s first female president
Prioritise international solidarity over national interests

Gender Equality

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

Mexico’s first female president
Women-led businesses suffer most
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Why the acronym BIPoC does not have to explain anything
Defending the progress made

Governance

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

Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts
ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities
Imagine top judges in Africa or Asia ruling like the US Supreme Court
Turning point in sanctions policy

Sustainability

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

Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts
ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities
Imagine top judges in Africa or Asia ruling like the US Supreme Court
Turning point in sanctions policy