Articles by region:

Elasticsearch Mini

Development and cooperation

D + C

Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

E + Z

We'd like to modernise our digital outreach in ways that suit your needs.
Please support us and do take part in this anonymous online survey regarding our users’ preferences.

Hintergrund
Foreign trade
Friedrich Kaufmann
Winfried Borowczak

A matter of power and interest

Foreign trade can drive development but the opportunity is not being taken in Mozambique

Growth strategy
Afshan Subohi

Incoherent policymaking

Pakistan’s exports are declining even though successive governments have promised export-led development

Regional integration
Alfred R. Bizoza
Eugenia Kayitesi

Africa’s bewildering spaghetti bowl

PEGNet Conference will assess opportunities of regional integration in Africa

Economic policy
Aditi Roy Ghatak
Aditi Roy Ghatak

Bypassing the poor

“Make in India” is unlikely to boost the country’s suffering economy

Sustainability
Gerd Müller

From free trade to fair trade

Gerd Müller, German minister for international cooperation and development, demands fair rules for sustainable export industries

Technology industry
Nanjira Sambuli

Making Africa a better place

Why Nairobi’s innovative start-up community needs global links

Handicaps
Bettina Kieck

Including everyone

Study and manual: Practical advice on how to include people with disabilities in mainstream life in developing countries

Policymakers’ dilemma
Renata Buriti

Lessons from Mariana

Brazil should learn lessons of Mariana disaster and make economic development environmentally sustainable

Garment production
Nico Beckert

Market dynamics ­versus human rights

Not much progress on improving occupational safety in Bangladesh’s garment industry

Relevant reading
Susanne Neubert
Susanne Neubert

More organic farming in sub-Saharan Africa

Despite obstacles, organic farming makes more sense in sub-Saharan Africa than conventional cultivation

Subscribe to Hintergrund

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.

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
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”