Development and
Cooperation

Hintergrund

Arts and society

The music of independence

Africa’s musical journey from the Independence Cha Cha to angry rap

Middle East

Water wise girls

Raising water awareness in a Jordanian School

Interview

“There is no sense of trust”

Conrad Schetter: „There is no sense of trust in Afghanistan“

Journalism

Support for local papers

Journalism students support local media in the Easter Cape Province

Good Governance

Evidence-based decisions

Malawis record of poverty and social impact assessments

Scholarship

Emerging stronger from crisis

Development economics has something to offer in times of crisis

Local-government finance

The right balance

Benin's model of local-government finance sets African standards

Social protection

Ways out of old-age poverty

Societies are ageing in many countries

Intellectual heritage

What the know-it-alls don’t understand

Why development professionals tend to think they know it all

Colonial past

A bandage on a tumour

Not much reason to celebrate: 50 years of independence in Africa

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