Development and
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Value chains

Promoting the recycling economy

In the city of Bo in Sierra Leone recycling lowers costs and creates new jobs

Waste management

Living amidst filth

Waste management has not kept up with Kathmandu’s fast growth

Waste management

Part of a system

Landfills are only one component of waste management

Recycling

A system for collecting waste

How a local initiative is encouraging waste pickers in Mumbai to contribute to up-to-date plastics recycling

Asia

Multilateral banks honeymoon

The first co-financing effort looks promising, but ADB and AIIB may yet become fierce adversaries

Social and environmental standards

Let’s race to the top

NGOs praise ADB for environmental and social safeguards but want better implementation

International cooperation

Monkey business

Human infants are more interested in cooperation than young apes

Global governance

Understanding the human factor

Why conventional theories of international relations are distorted

Renewable energy

Emerging markets overtake industrialised states

Record investments in solar, wind and hydropower

Commodity prices

Explosive issue

Unless commodity exporting countries diversify their economies, crises loom

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Sustainability

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