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AIDS orphans
Ulrike Block

Ticking time bomb

How Tanzania reacts to the AIDS-related orphans crisis

Web 2.0
Andreas Mandler

Without computer or fixed-line network

Web 2.0 and rural change

Fighting poverty
Hugh Williamson
Hugh Williamson

“Look at villages through the MDG prism”

Fighting poverty: “Look at villages through the MDG prism”

Agriculture
Rudolf Buntzel

Supermarkets’ looming threats

Agriculture: Supermarkets’ looming threats

Development jargon
Annette Benad
Uli Post

Helping people to help themselves

Development jargon: Helping people to help themselves

International decision-making
Frank Udo Höggel
Silvia Künzler-Roth

The people, the river and the border

International decision-making: The people, the river and the border

Poverty reduction
Juliane Osterhaus
Monika Lüke

New paradigm

Poverty reduction: New paradigm

Religion

Prosperity through penance and conversion

Prosperity through penance and conversion

Social security

Overlooked heroines

Overlooked heroines

Rechtsstaat

Herausgeforderte Justiz

Herausgeforderte Justiz

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Poverty Reduction

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

BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies
When a relatively strong African country is struggling on all fronts
When qualifications don’t decide your career
Whose development?
Inequality is getting worse according to UNDP

Gender Equality

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

Defending the progress made
Pakistan’s politically assertive women
Consequences of cyclone Freddy
Jobless due to epilepsy
Why ODA is better than its reputation in donor countries

Governance

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

From colonial division to bloody conflict
BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies
Defending the progress made
To define Pakistan as a nation, Islam is insufficient
Pakistan’s politically assertive women

Sustainability

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

From colonial division to bloody conflict
BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies
Defending the progress made
To define Pakistan as a nation, Islam is insufficient
Pakistan’s politically assertive women