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Tourism
Ali Shaaban Juma

Turtle conservation promotes eco-tourism

Civil-society projects in Zanzibar protect sea turtles, thereby attracting eco-tourists

Fair trade
Linda Engel

A drop in prices is hurting cocoa farmers

Sustainable cocoa cultivation improves living conditions for farmers

Letter to the editor
Reinhard Woytek

Investment is key to decent-work agenda

Reader challenges our author’s reasoning

Jobs
Karim Okanla

Employment blues

Most Beninese people must cope with the constant insecurity of informal employment

Manufacturing
Belay Begashaw

Asian lessons for Africa

To generate employment, African garment industry must become competitive

Labour market
Linda Engel

Disadvantaged women

More and better jobs are needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals – especially for women and young people

PEGNet Conference
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Measures to reduce inequality

Public investments in education and social protection help to reduce inequality

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

To Bangladeshis poverty looks different than to Europeans

A documentary film concerning garments production teaches the wrong lessons

Social entrepreneurship
Bettina Meier

Companies financing foundation

Togolese company processes organic pineapples that French importers do not want

Social entrepreneurship
Bettina Meier

A balancing act

NGOs are founding companies in order to fund themselves with profits

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Poverty Reduction

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

Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
How to end hunger
Why food security needs both peacebuilding and livelihood development
Eco-friendly agriculture must reduce farmers’ costs
How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?

Gender Equality

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

Justice for victims of rape
How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?
How GIZ gets young people moving
Why sport is an effective tool for development
Addressing gender-based violence in Colombia

Governance

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

Promoting media literacy to fight misinformation
Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
The sudden fall of Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister
The dubious practices of digital money lenders
How development policy is misunderstood

Sustainability

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

Promoting media literacy to fight misinformation
Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
The sudden fall of Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister
The dubious practices of digital money lenders
How development policy is misunderstood