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Civil society
Miriam Schröder
Melanie Müller

Chinese paths to climate protection

Climate protection matters ever more to Chinese NGOs

Climate Change
Burkhard Margraf

Right to international support

Climate change: Madagascar has a right to international support

Budget support
Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff

Double strategy

Budgetary controls need to be improved in developing counries

World Development Report
Eva Dick
Einhard Schmidt-Kallert

Relevant rural-urban interplay

World Development Report on rural-urban migration

Military history
Shuja Nawaz

Islamists in the ranks

Islamist radicalim and Pakistan’s military

Multilateral institutions
Ronny Bechmann
Gerhard Ressel
Oliver Lerbs

Lessons from the past

The visions of World Bank chief economist Justin Yifu Lin

Infrastructure
Rupert Neudeck

When the sky cries

An infrastructural project of water collection in Ethiopia

Governance
Arnold Dunai
Oliver Wagener

Indispensable checks and balances

Cambodia needs stronger legislative bodies

Liberia
Till Blume

Liberia’s difficult reconstruction

Success and failure of President Johnson-Sirleaf in Liberia

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Human rights

Editorial – Global governance as a matter of human rights

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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