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In brief
South-south cooperation
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

China’s role in Africa

Südwind study assess the impact of China’s engagement in Africa

United Nations
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

The road to dignity

UN secretary-general’s synthesis report on the post-2015 agenda demands: end hunger and save the planet

Pharmaceuticals
Christoph Suess

Research protects the poor

Investing in innovative pharmaceuticals to tackle poverty-related illnesses

Print edition

Contents December issue

D+C/E+Z: Contents page of December’s print edition with links to all contributions

Donor policy
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Comprehensive approach

EU needs new strategy to tackle foreign, security and development affairs in an inter-connected manner

Conflict research
Floreana Miesen

Go into the field

As conflicts change, research about them needs to take new directions

Infrastructure
Hans-Christoph Neidlein

Renewable energy

Obstacles to expanding renewable energy in Pakistan

Tuberculosis
Vera Dicke

Saving lives through discipline

Tuberculosis remains a huge challenge in Central Asia

Polio disease
Friederike Bauer

The end of a long struggle

Thanks to systematic vaccination and awareness raising, India is now free of Polio

German policy
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Points of reference

Gerd Müller, Germany’s federal minister for economic cooperation and development, launches Charter for the Future

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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.

How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets

Sustainability

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

How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets