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German funding is declining while humanitarian needs are growing: Sudanese refugees in Chad in late 2023.

German ODA

Prioritise international solidarity over national interests

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by Cornelia Möhring
For Nepal’s tourism destinations, domestic and Indian visitors matter increasingly.

Sustainable development

Nepal must grasp opportunities that tourism offers

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by Rukamanee Maharjan
Religious artifacts on sale as souvenirs in Kathmandu.

Our View

Make tourism environmentally and socially sustainable

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by Jörg Döbereiner
Narendra Modi (left) now depends on the support of two regional-party leaders, Chandrababu Naidu (centre) from Andhra Pradesh and Nitish Kumar (right) from Bihar.

Democracy

Modi won, but no longer looks invincible

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by Suparna Banerjee
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Refugee camp in Goma, DR Congo: extreme poverty is getting worse in many conflict regions.

Development finance

How IDA needs to be reformed

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by Wale Osofisan

Cholera outbreak

Women-led businesses suffer most

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by Derrick Silimina
Where development schemes are nationally owned, aid works: a three-year old plays with her mother’s cell phone during a storm in a Bangladeshi cyclone shelter in 2022.

Development cooperation

Aid is problematic, but indispensable

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by Iwan J. Azis
Gro Harlem Brundtland presenting the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development in London in 1987.

SDGs

The sustainability agenda humankind needs

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by Iwan J. Azis
Poorly managed pandemic: lockdown meant millions of migrant workers had to leave the cities at the same time in May 2020.

Social disparities

India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
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