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Criteria determine when an investment is “green”. Wind farm in Jordan.

Sustainable finance

International standards are important

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by Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann
Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu with African entrepreneurs at the Tony Elulmelu Foundation’s Forum 2019.

Entrepreneurship

Safeguarding long term viability

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by Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu
Covid-19 is exacerbating economic problems: small retail shop in Buenos Aires in late August.

Debt sustainability

Buying time

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by José Siaba Serrate
José Siaba Serrate
Private condominiums and public housing projects side by side in Singapore.

Sociology

Reconciling diversity and the common good

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by Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Anna-Katharina Hornidge
by Hans Dembowski
Women working for a Vietnamese car-component producer that has been co-financed by DEG.

SDGs

Indispensable private sector

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by Christiane Rudolph
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
India’s workers would benefit from a law like China’s labour code: construction worker in Kolkata.

Political systems

Fighting poverty

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by Praveen Jha
By 2018, agriculture only accounted for a little more than a quarter of the labour force in China.

Asian giants

China is ahead of India

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by Praveen Jha
Indigenous community in Ecuador sharing a meal.

Buen Vivir

The good life

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by Philipp Altmann
GiveDirectly is cost-efficient, bypasses bureaucracies and helps poor people take their fate into their own hands.

Official development assistance

Why taxation matters

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by Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau
by Julia Schnatz
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