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Hintergrund
Youth unemployment

Focused agenda needed

The MENA region needs economic growth and targeted interventions to get to grips with youth unemployment

Automation

The exaggerated threat of robots

International competition is a bigger threat to Africa's industrialisation than the automation of labour

Qualifications

Development service as a place of learning

On mission, German development workers acquire skills, and better documentation would serve their careers

Public health

Immunising Africa

Immunisation programmes are making a huge difference in Africa

Global data

“We can end extreme poverty”

Tracking global poverty on a daily basis

Demographic change

Lives are now 20 years longer

Birth rates go down as standards of living improve

Law

Continuity through a new legislative basis

What difference a law on development policy could make in Germany

Economic history

Always returning to square one

Argentina’s economic meltdown of 2001/2002 still overshadows new developments

MDGs

Think globally, act globally

Millennium Development Goals shaped new global partnership

Global trends

“Change can be measured, the reasons for it cannot”

Developing countries now have more room for manoeuvre – industrialised countries do not always see that as a positive

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