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In brief
Development strategy

Multiple adjustment needs

The World Bank's mission is about more than crisis management

Summer Special

Robbed identity

Uday Prakash is an Indian fiction writer who is interested in how poor people are marginalised and exploited

Fighting poverty

Successful debt relief

Lessons learned concerning multilateral debt relief

Summer Special

“Just being born a woman is a provocation”

French-Moroccan novelist holds up a mirror to a hypocritical society

Summer Special

Constructed justice

Milo Rau’s multimedia art project The Congo Tribunal calls for accountability for millions of crimes

Summer Special

Amusing and philosophical

A documentary road movie about the African San holds a mirror up to western society

Summer Special

Black revolutionary artist

The African-American Jean-Michel Basquiat rose from graffiti sprayer to artist of international fame

Summer Special

Resolving the Middle East conflict in a soccer stadium

“The 90 Minute War” – a movie about a soccer match to resolve the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict

ODA

Evaluation 2.0

Digitalisation and changing conditions will determine how development projects are evaluated in the future

Municipal development cooperation

Act locally – think globally

Many municipal development projects are actively involving migrants and refugees

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Governance

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

Sustainability

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