High-income countries
Our view

Integrated rural development matters more than ever

Spiking food prices call for agricultural policymaking rather than macroeconomic management. In view of the climate crisis, challenges have increased

Climate finance

Climate-finance commitments are not being met

Many high-income countries are failing to meet their climate-finance commitments

Novel

A father-son relationship in crisis

Nassir Djafari’s debut novel illuminates a father-son relationship

Migration

Adapting to fast-changing German society in the 1960s

Nassir Djafari’s novel “Mahtab” tells the story of a migrant woman from Iran who makes Frankfurt her home town

Political economy

How Xi Jinping is exacerbating China’s economic misery

Market dynamism requires the rule of law and freedom of speech, so authoritarianism limits economic growth

Novel

Experiencing feminism in Uganda

In “The First Woman”, Ugandan author Jennifer Makumbi portrays the many facets of feminism in Uganda

Democracy

How the Modi government is undermining Indian democracy

Hindu-supremacists are most awkward allies in the fight against authoritarianism internationally

Military deployment

German military stayed too long in Mali

Germany has to withdraw quickly from Mali – one reason for this is that the Federal Government failed to learn the lessons of Afghanistan

Ovaherero and Nama genocide

No real reconciliation for the Ovaherero and Nama

Germany and Namibia’s joint declaration regarding the genocide in the former colony South-West Africa falls short in many ways

European law

DSA is an EU effort to manage systemic online risks

Innovative European legislation regarding digital services may set global example

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Governance

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

Sustainability

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