New 09/08/2018 – by Imme Scholz, Katja Dombrowski “Change can be measured, the reasons for it cannot” Read full article
Financial cooperation More money for development Top story New 17/08/2018 – by Monika Hellstern In 2017, Germany’s development bank KfW and its subsidiary Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG), committed € 9.7 billion to new development projects. That was more money than ever before.
Recycling New 06/08/2018 – by Jeffrey Moyo Turning trash into cash In Zimbabwe, poor women collect garbage and sell recycled products Read
Green industrial policy New 05/08/2018 – by Tilman Altenburg Reducing poverty whilst transitioning to a green economy The double challenge of generating growth and transitioning to clean economies Read
Debt restructuring New 04/08/2018 – by Jürgen Kaiser Alternative structural adjustment The IMF needs to reform if it wants to maintain its legitimacy Read
Economic policy New 03/08/2018 – by Jürgen Kaiser Interfering in national sovereignty Shortcomings and weaknesses of the structural-adjustment measures of recent decades Read
Development strategies New 02/08/2018 – by Ndongo Samba Sylla New paradigm needed The root causes of African indebtedness are still the same Read
Failed policies New 01/08/2018 – by Ndongo Samba Sylla Descent into hell In Africa, structural adjustment did not trigger fast growth, but had a contractive impact Read
Development strategy New 31/07/2018 – by Jürgen Zattler Multiple adjustment needs The World Bank's mission is about more than crisis management Read
Borders New 30/07/2018 – by Ibrahim Oredola Falola Extorting travellers Why some people still pay bribes to cross ECOWAS borders Read
Summer Special New 29/07/2018 – by Hans Dembowski Robbed identity Uday Prakash is an Indian fiction writer who is interested in how poor people are marginalised and exploited Read
Fighting poverty 28/07/2018 – by Jürgen Zattler Successful debt relief Lessons learned concerning multilateral debt relief Read
