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Aid effectiveness
Françoise Moreau

Tackling the roots of poverty

First-ever European Report on Development focusses on fragile statehood

Elections
Phillip Kusch

Compulsory, but meaningful event

Upsides and downsides of Mali’s local-government elections in 2009

Biodiversity
Èric Belvaux
Linda Ghanimé
Mathieu Régnier

Mainstreaming starts at home

Biodiversity is a cross-cutting challenge for development agencies

Germany’s Federal Government
Dirk Niebel

“A core issue, not a side issue”

Germany’s new development minister discusses policy in an interview

Microfinance
Hans Dieter Seibel
Ketut Nurcahya

Weathering the storm

Bali’s microfinance institutions are weathering global storms

Development finance
Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann

Preventing unsustainable debt

Due to global crisis, over-indebtedness looms large

Poverty alleviation
K. P. Kannan

“Employment in lean seasons”

Employment guarantees are boosting rural development in India

Comparing economies
Nina V. Michaelis

Wealth measurement 2.0

Better ways to assess a nation’s welfare

Water
Christoph Lüthi
Elizabeth Tilley

Focussing on people’s needs

How to bring santiation to marginalised urban settlements

Leather processing
Christian Dietsche
Nicole Reps

Old industry, ­very slow change

The pros and cons of world-market orientation in India’s leather industries

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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