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Development and cooperation

D + C

Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

E + Z
Urbanisierung
Participation
Tomás Parker Cerda

Marginalised margins

Money and political power in Chile are concentrated in the capital

Social inclusion
Leonardo Párraga

Seeds of a better future

An urban farm is making a difference in a marginalised neighbourhood of Bogotá

Asia
Floreana Miesen

Growth, equity and sustainability

As Asian growth picks up, equity and sustainability are major concerns

Favelas
Oberdan Basilio Chagas
Julia Jaroschewski

“Different from what visitors expect”

Oberdan Basilio Chagas guides visitors through his favela

Urban traffic
Khadija Farhana

Happy cycling

A cycling group in Bangladesh promotes eco-friendly transport

Trade and urbanisation
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Growing transport threatens climate

Carbon emissions from international freight will quadruple by 2050, warns OECD Transport Outlook 2015

Transportation

Cheap and dangerous

Motorcycle taxis in Tanzania cause many traffic accidents, but are also a cheap way of transportation

Migration
Lea Ferno

Away from home

Migration always existed and will always do – even living elsewhere, people stay connected to their homes

India
Friederike Bauer

Creating new standards

KfW supports energy-efficiency in Indian buildings

Habitat development
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

“Future development will be urban”

With Connective Cities, a new Internet platform helps networking of municipalities worldwide

Subscribe to Urbanisierung

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