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Poverty Reduction

Labour market
Linda Engel

Disadvantaged women

More and better jobs are needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals – especially for women and young people

PEGNet Conference
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Measures to reduce inequality

Public investments in education and social protection help to reduce inequality

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

To Bangladeshis poverty looks different than to Europeans

A documentary film concerning garments production teaches the wrong lessons

Social entrepreneurship
Bettina Meier

Companies financing foundation

Togolese company processes organic pineapples that French importers do not want

Social entrepreneurship
Bettina Meier

A balancing act

NGOs are founding companies in order to fund themselves with profits

Labour relations
Franziska Korn

One law for all

Bangladesh’s labour legislation has improved, but more needs to happen

Editorial
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Global social contract

A lot must still happen to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of decent work

Lacking opportunities
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla

Emigration would help

Unlike young Europeans in past centuries, young Africans today are denied opportunities overseas

Occupation
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla

Why the western model doesn’t work

Informal employment dominates in Africa – well-paying jobs with social-protection benefits are the exception

Structural change
Tilman Altenburg

The retail revolution

WalMart, Tesco and others are conquering markets in developing countries

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Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
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Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
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Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition

Governance

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

Self-righteous aggressiveness versus universal values
Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy

Sustainability

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

Self-righteous aggressiveness versus universal values
Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy