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More and more people worldwide gain access to safe drinking water.

Good News

Progress in drinking water supply and disease control

The two pieces of good news this month are about more people gaining access to safe drinking water and four countries being declared free of the neglected tropical disease trachoma.

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Melinda and Bill Gates in 2019.

Blog

Why taxes beat philanthropy

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by Hans Dembowski
In Ethiopia, greater purchasing power has not led to a strengthening of democracy: salesman in Addis Ababa.

Social stratification

Myths of middle class dynamism

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by Henning Melber

Easter Island

Song of home

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by Javier A. Cisterna Figueroa
Vaccine hesitancy is spreading, but many people are proud of getting their jab.

Chronic diseases

Brazil’s health-care challenges

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by Thuany Rodrigues
Super-rich philanthropists are a tiny minority everywhere: Aliko Dangote, Mo Ibrahim and Bill Gates at an event in New York City in 2019.

Inequality

A tale of rich and poor

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by Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Small-scale fishing still provides livelihoods in Dakar.

Income inequality

Why Africa lacks a robust middle class

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by Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Too many people cannot read: newspaper vendor in Dar es Salaam in March 2021.

Adult literacy

Getting back on track

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by Lawrence Kilimwiko
Temporary Covid-19 hospital in São Paolo.

Health care

An over-stretched system

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by Thuany Rodrigues

Online forum

#DalitLivesMatterNepal

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by Rukamanee Maharjan
More people have more choices: shoppers in Dhaka.

Growing prosperity

Middle-class lifestyles start with $ 10 per person and day

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by Homi Kharas
by Aviva Freudmann