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Relevant reading
Rainer Thiele

Reduced inequality in Latin America

Rainer Thiele: Relevant reading on Latin America's reduced income disparities

Social programmes
Linda Vierecke
Christoph Peters

Escaping need

Bolivia’s social programmes have considerably reduced extreme poverty

Senegal
Abdou Lo

Higher learning and elections

Why Senegal, a small country, is good at providing international organisations with leaders

Village life
John Wesley Kabango

Grassroots participation

Donor agencies appreciate community involvement in Rwandan model of village development

Dynamic growth
John Wesley Kabango

Remarkable Progress

Rwanda has prospered under the determined leadership of President Kagame

Brazil
Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho

In need of new approaches

Brazil's recent development model has been successful, but now the country needs new policies to drive growth and reduce social disparities

Bangladesh
Marianne Scholte

No “basket case”

Bangladesh is a development success, not a basket case

Infectious diseases
Andrea Holzäpfel

“We need staying power”

How KfW Development Bank is fighting infectious diseases

Migration

Between worlds

David Majed: Young refugees struggle to define their identities in Germany

Humanitarian logistics

Making aid more effective

Helmut Baumgarten and Hendrik Blome: How to improve the logistics of aid operations in crisis regions

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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.

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
“Dialogue of life”

Sustainability

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

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
“Dialogue of life”