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Volkswirtschaftliche Entwicklung
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Economics is just another social science

Economic models are less accurate than their precise maths suggest

Health care
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

A short history of Indian pharma

How government action helped India’s pharma sector to grow

Education
Roli Mahajan

Scrimping and saving

In India and many other countries, government-rung schools do not have a good reputation

Multinationals
Deepak Sapra

The world’s pill factory

Health services for 80 % of humanity depend on drugs made in India

Elections
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

Democratic shift to the right

Argentinian elections indicate Latin American trend towards conservative restoration

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

By agreeing to disagree, WTO inches forward

More smaller trade deals make economic sense, but there is a price

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Perhaps the EU and USA never liked the WTO’s Doha round

Hardly any progress in 14 years

United Nations
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Agreement to keep negotiating

The climate deal struck in Paris is ambitious, innovative and a bit awkward

Africans in Germany
Abdou Rahime Diallo

Drivers of change

Diaspora investors contribute to development in various ways

International exchange
Abdou Rahime Diallo

Studying in Germany helped to tackle Ethiopian problems

Ahadoo tackles social needs with innovative technical solutions

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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