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Youth unemployment
Jesus Felipe

The right business environment

To fight youth unemployment, Asia needs more jobs, not more schools

Food security
J. Jackson Ewing

Less hunger, but more health hazards

Hunger has decreased in the Asia-Pacific region, but there are new concerns about food security

Higher education
Gudrun Busch

The people want to learn

Why many Brazilian students choose to go to night school after work

Economic policy
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Stuck in informal employment

Prominent Indian economists emphasise indispensability of growth in new book on development policy

Traffic
Hans-Heinrich Bass
Thanh Trung Nguyen

Imminent gridlock

Vietnam needs to tackle urban-traffic congestion

Public finance
Annika Manz

Patriotic funds

African Development Bank considers Diaspora bonds promising for sub-Saharan governments

Middle East
Ulrich Nitschke
Kristin Hentschel

Foundations for a new state

Municipal planning in the Palestinian Territories is increasingly tailored to citizens' needs

Public participation
Christian Wuttke

Field trials

China's urban planners are increasingly interested in their people’s desires

Institutions
Anja Strautz

From NGO to commercial bank

From NGO to formal bank: Acleda in Cambodia has a stunning success story to tell

Finance
Geoffrey Muzigiti
Oliver Schmidt

Moving forward

Financial inclusion is poor in sub-Saharan Africa, but improving thanks to formal sector banks and microfinance providers.

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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.

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
How GIZ gets young people moving

Sustainability

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

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
How GIZ gets young people moving