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Entwicklungszusammenarbeit der Geberländer

Global data

Poverty is worsening

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by Hans Dembowski
“Money laundering in prosperous financial centres is compounding the fiscal problems of developing countries.” Frankfurt skyline.

Public finance

In the driver’s seat

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by Dereje Alemayehu
by Hans Dembowski
China is expected to become a high-income country soon: shops in Jianshui in Yunnan Province.

International cooperation

New partners, global goals

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by Luiz Ramalho
David Malpass and Emmanuel Macron have spoken out in favour of debt leniency. This picture was taken in May 2019 in Paris.

Development lending

Consider the quality of debt

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by Leny van Oijen
by Christian Penda Ekoka
Informal businesses are common in Kenya: knife sharpening service in Nairobi.

Dysfunctional policy

Under-performing ODA darling

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by Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau
by Julia Schnatz
GiveDirectly is cost-efficient, bypasses bureaucracies and helps poor people take their fate into their own hands.

Official development assistance

Why taxation matters

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by Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau
by Julia Schnatz
Participants in an SDG conference in Kigali in 2019.

Our view

The crucial development challenge

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by Hans Dembowski
On 7 June, protesters in Bristol pulled down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston and later threw it into the harbour.

Development discourse

Unsustainable western exceptionalism

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by Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla
UN peacekeepers in Cote d’Ivoire in 2012.

Global Governance

Self-perpetuating cycles of violence

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by Florian Gaisrucker
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