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In brief
Nuclear energy
Peter Hauff

Future on shaky ground

Risks of nuclear plants in Iran, Pakistan, Philippines

Donor harmonisation
Joseph Miller

Room for improvement

The ECDPM’s critcial assessment of budget support in Southern African countries

Financial markets
Peter Hauff

Withdrawal from emerging markets

Investors shun emerging markets

Education
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Informed use of the media

Informed use of media: the role of journalism

Refugees
Joseph Miller

European dilemma

Refugees: European dilemma

Financial markets

Debating the price of food

Financial markets: Debating food prices

Agriculture in China
Peter Hauff

Feeding the masses

For 20 % of the world’s population, China has only 10 % of Earth’s arable land

Transparency
Claudia Schwegmann

Standardised data agreed

IATI standards serve to make aid more transparent

Official development assistance

Failing “failed” states

According to Oxfam, donors are neglecting fragile states

Electric power
Mike Enskat
Hedrik Meller

Difficult switches

Difficult switches: African deserts could generate electric power for Europe

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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