Externe Publikationen

Development policy: don't overpromise and underdeliver

Janus, Heiner / Tim Röthel
Externe Publikationen (2025)

in: D+C (08/2025), 5-7

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The global crisis in development cooperation will not be resolved by making exaggerated promises about what it is capable of achieving. Instead, the focus should be on improving people’s living conditions tangibly. Adding all kinds of secondary objectives often means that none of the goals can realistically be reached. Tightening resources are forcing projects to focus on more specific and narrow objectives.

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