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Poverty Reduction
Germany’s Federal Government

“Humanity’s common future”

Gerd Müller, Germany’s new federal minister for economic cooperation and development, spells out the fundamentals of his policies

Nowadays

I dream of inclusion

Unfair marginalisation of children with disabilities in Togo

Aid

On the edge of chaos

Ben Ramalingam criticises aid agencies' 19th century world view and wants them to rise to the challenges of complexity

European Union

In need of harmonisation

Scholars warn that European development efforts are not sufficiently coordinated

Scholarship

New challenges

Stephan Klingebiel argues that development policy must adapt to a changing world

Disaster relief

Building back better

Natural catastrophes are terrible for the people affected, but reconstruction efforts can improve lives

Post-2015 process

Core concerns

EU considers the post-2015 process an opportunity to improve the provision of global public goods

Food security

Struggling smallholders

Despite living in a stable economy, half of all Kenyans are poor

Lack of social safety net

From valuable to vulnerable

After civil war, many old people must fend for themselves in Sierra Leone

Teenage pregnancy

Right to childhood

The long term impacts of teenage pregnancies on girls and society

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