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A waste collector in Johannesburg. South Africa is one of the countries with the greatest wealth inequality.

Inequality in numbers

Rich and poor – the extreme distribution of income and wealth worldwide

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by D+C / E+Z
More and more people worldwide gain access to safe drinking water.

Good News

Progress in drinking water supply and disease control

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by D+C / E+Z
An HIV-positive sex worker in Johannesburg holds antiretroviral drugs provided to her by the government. However, many sex workers now have to rely on the black market to obtain these drugs.

Health

“What other option do we have?”

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by Ray Mwareya
Russian wooden dolls called Matryoshka depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping at a souvenir shop in Moscow.

Governance

The oligarchs’ world order

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by David Lingelbach
by Valentina Rodríguez Guerra
A farm that was destroyed by a cyclone in southern Malawi.

Food security

Malawi’s increasingly difficult battle against hunger

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by Brenard Mwanza
by Matthias Scharpf
Investments in companies that supply underserved populations with essential goods such as food are a form of impact investing.

Impact investing

How to convince rich people to use their money for good

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by Nico Blaauw
The climate conference in Belém is under pressure to deliver on big promises.

Climate conference

The billion-dollar gap

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by Björn Cremer
Some people are spending great amounts of money and time on saving biodiversity.

Good News

Protecting biodiversity and world heritage sites

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by D+C / E+Z
Illustration by Dadi Prayoga from Indonesia.

Our view

The power of the billions

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
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