Contents May issue

Editorial

Hans Dembowski:
Why scholarship matters

Monitor

Circular migration and development | More trade barriers | 20th report on reality of development aid | Challenges in post-war situations | Gender stereotypes, violence and fragile statehood | Municipal co­operation with North Africa | In brief


Focus: Higher education

Karim Okanla:
A private university in Benin

Dirk Niebel:
Development starts in the mind

Chris Gordon and Ernest Aryeetey:
Africa needs world class universities

Linda Kleemann, Alexander Freese and Michael Grimm:
Research agenda: opportunities for African lion economies

Ridwanul Hoque:
Failed: law studies in Bangladesh

Gabi Waibel and Judith Ehlert:
Challenging social science research in Vietnam

Interview with Ramón Garcia-Ziemsen:
“No upward mobility” in Colombia


Tribune

Edward Harris:
GAVI’s results-based funding for vaccination programmes

Emily Haber:
The dilemma of humanitarian aid

Karl-Heinz Bächstädt, Markus Henn and Franziska Richter:
Rating agencies are over-rated, and enjoy too much power

Elton Hubner:
Brazil’s emerging donor role


Debate

Comments on military failure in the war on drugs, the election of the new World Bank president and the voluntary UN-guidelines for land transactions | Op-ed views on crisis in Mali