Development and
Cooperation

All monthly issues
“If humankind keeps using concrete, steel and aluminium at the current rate to build cities, we will be unable to keep global warming below two degrees”: construction site in Kolkata.

Infrastructure

“We need to build shock resilience”

by
by Dirk Messner
Retail poultry shop in Kolkata.

Labour relations

Nightmarish conditions

by
by Aditi Roy Ghatak
Houses and rice fields in a flooded area, Mekong Delta, Vietnam.

Climate change

Devastating consequences

by
by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
Occupational safety is not a priority in Indian construction work.

Decent work

Misleading dichotomy

by
by Aditi Roy Ghatak

A bad situation turned worse

by
by Katja Dombrowski
African infrastructure projects and Chinese involvement.

Chinese foreign policy

Silk road across the Indian Ocean

by
by Katja Dombrowski
Swedish army besieging Frankfurt on Oder in 1631.

Climate change

The lasting impacts of the “little ice age”

by
by Hans Dembowski

Gender

Men against violence against women

by
by Lindsey Kukunda
Ethiopian domestic worker in Beirut.

Domestic workers

Working in lawless conditions

by
by Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar
Fishing harbor in Mangalore, a coastal town of some 600,000 people in southern India. Its infrastructure is set to be boosted by the Smart Cities Mission.

Cities

Not smart enough

by
by Alokananda Nath
Subscribe to