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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Comment
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

A less than perfect candidate

In spite of evident weaknesses, Lagarde was appointed IMF managing director

Food security
Peter Hauff

Pre-programmed hunger

Food prices keeping rising

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Discussing dissent

In the long term, the G20 must do more than discuss dissent

Relevant reading
Jonathan Stanley

High aspirations

Review essay: relevant reading on the G20

Global leadership
Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann
Thomas Fues
Ulrich Volz

Informal power centre

The G20: an informal power broker with growint developmental relevance

World affairs
Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho

“I’m not sure the G20 will survive”

Brazililan economist: „I am not sure the G20 will survive“

Comment
Jayati Ghosh

Clueless in Seoul

G20-leaders proved clueless in Seoul

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Market and state failure

All developing countries should be making generic drugs

Comment
Liliana Rojas-Suarez

Serious exchange-rate stress

From a Latin American perspective, both the USA and China are to blame for the “currency wars”

Scholarship
André Lieber

Emerging stronger from crisis

Development economics has something to offer in times of crisis

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Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast
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?

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.

India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast
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

Sustainability

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

India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast
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