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SDGs

Indispensable private sector

DEG assesses development impacts precisely and intends to promote women more

Development lending

Consider the quality of debt

Even during a global pandemic, debt relief should not be granted across the board

Support pledges

Insufficient funding

Due to Covid-19, mid-Eastern crisis countries need more international support than ever

Change of power in Mali

Civil society sees political awakening

Mali’s military takeover creates opportunities to meet the needs of the people

SDGs

No reason to sit back and relax

Pakistan has met SDG 13 on climate action but must continue its efforts

Our view

The crucial development challenge

To achieve the SDGs, humankind needs strong and competent institutions at national as well as supranational levels

Lebanon

Fundamental change is indispensable

After failing disastrously, Lebanon’s political system needs fundamental change

Development discourse

Unsustainable western exceptionalism

For environmental reasons, western Europe and North America cannot be models of development

Gender

Changing stereotypes

In spite of various global assessments, many Pakistani women do not think anything is wrong with gender relations in their countries

Our view

Belonging together

Nations are nothing natural, but human-made “imagined communities”

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