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Development and cooperation

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Volkswirtschaftliche Entwicklung
Growth scepticism
Petra Pinzler

Happiness is a child with a popsicle

Happiness economics: growth has its limits

Global norms
Korinna Horta

Crucial environmental and social standards

The IFC could do more to promote social and environmental standards

Latin America
Eva-Maria Verfürth

Rebellion against market radicalism

Protesters in Chile call for social reform and more government intervention

Gender
Shireen Lateef

“Broaden women’s  choices”

Asian women deserve broader choices

Public Finance
Omari Issa

“Taxes don’t bother investors much”

Why investors do not worry much about developing countries’ tax rates

Central Asia
Hannelore Börgel

In the shadow of Afghanistan

The precarious socio-economic situation is undermining stability in Central Asia

Evaluation
Matthias Großmann
Maya Schnell

Personal perceptions make a difference

Why subjective indicators for development are meaningful

Technological competitiveness
Lívia Fioravanti
Fabiola Vásquez
Karen Rivas
Janaína César

“New knowledge and new contacts”

Efforts to boosting innovation in Latinamerika

Fighting poverty
Kennedy Manyala

“A strong policy statement”

KenInvest supports small businesses to become engines of growth in Kenya

Statistics
Oliver Zwirner

Looking for new yardsticks

European Initiative „Beyond GDP“

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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