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Maternal health
Nancy Ndungu

Payment after delivery

In Kenya, vouchers give poor women access to professional reproductive health services

Evaluation
Matthias Großmann
Maya Schnell

Personal perceptions make a difference

Why subjective indicators for development are meaningful

Trade policy
Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann
Clara Brandi

After the financial crisis

New trade barriers hurt least developed countries

Poverty reduction
Dominik Hartmann

Meaningful help for self-help

Conditional cash transfers complement microcredit schemes in Brazil

Security
Samwar S. Fallah

Post-war challenges

The challenges of re-starting the Liberian police force

Editorial
Eva-Maria Verfürth

Mirror of the state

The police reflects a country’s power arrangements

World Bank
Mario Stumm

More responsibility for developing countries

How voice reform came about at the World Bank

Community participation
Immacultata Raphael

No more cholera

Providing everyone with safe drinking water in Tanazania’s Hai District

Post-conflict society
Eva-Maria Verfürth

Excellent work for women

The advantages of having many women in Nicaragua’s police force

Health
Frank Odenthal

Dedicated at first, discouraged later

State intervention is undermining Ghana’s succesful health microinsurance schemes

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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.

Reimagining African folktales
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

Governance

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

Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
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

Sustainability

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

Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
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