Volkswirtschaftliche Entwicklung
Sustainability

“Skip out-dated technologies”

Several issues are slowing down the global transition to renewable energies

Subsidies

Counter-productive policy

ADB expert spells out why subsidies for fossil fuels are bad policy

Research

Give youth a chance

PEGNet annual conference in Zambia discusses strategies to boost employment

Globalisation

WTO failure

Politicians need to see global trade, migration and climate change in context because of interdependencies

Private-sector development

Attracting investors

African economies have been doing well, but could – and should – do even better

Poverty

Redefining poverty

Valentin Lang and Hildegard Lingnau: The post-2015 agenda needs to redefine poverty and measure it in new ways

Inequality

Self-serving middle classes

Hopes that rising incomes automatically lead to more activism for good governance are probably exaggerated

Financial sector

A development bank for Mozambique

Mozambique hopes to stimulate its economy with the help of a new government-owned development bank

In brief

Africa’s women farmers are disadvantaged

Why Africa’s women farmers produce less than their male counterparts

EADI

Sharing global responsibility

Unless the world's middle classes assume responsibility, there will be no sustainable development

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