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Financial services
Peter Hauff

Small servings save development

German municipal savings banks in defence of microfinance

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Working in kitchens can kill you

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Sub-Saharan Africa
Vera Dicke

Change people’s minds

Paradigm change needed in view of population growth

Safety nets
Vera Dicke

Beyond charity

Social security must not stay a luxury item

News

Views shared by Central American governments

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Arab Spring
Peter Hauff

Between apathy and utopia

Europe clinging to its old partners in North Africa

Food security
Vera Dicke

Dangerous volatility

Mixed messages from Global Hunger Index 2011

Managing for results
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Uncharted territory

Results-based aid: opportunities of an innovative approach

Adaptation to climate change
Merle Becker

Taming the dragon

Too little is being done to adapt countries to climate change – especially in Africa

Latin America
Eva-Maria Verfürth

Rebellion against market radicalism

Protesters in Chile call for social reform and more government intervention

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Poverty Reduction

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Gender Equality

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

The literary power of Black women writers
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Governance

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

Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence

Sustainability

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

Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence