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Sustainability
Agriculture

Moving a mountain of mangoes

Sun-drying mangoes solves a market-access problem for smallholder farmers

Biodiversity

Global warming and biodiversity loss mutually reinforcing

Fragile mountain habitats are becoming increasingly precarious in Hindu Kush-Himalaya region

Pharmacists in development cooperation

Essential experts

Pharmacists without borders do important work in aid missions and projects worldwide

Plastic

Balancing profits and staff welfare in Ivory Coast

Coliba is a young formal-sector company that specialises in the recycling of plastic waste in Abidjan

Cancer

Unaffordable treatment

For people in developing countries, most cancer drugs are unaffordable

Patents

Intellectual property versus health care

Insistence on medical patents costs lives, especially in the global south

Our view

Foundations of broad-based prosperity

How the middle class matters in a country’s development

Recession

Growing dependence on Benin’s informal sector

In Cotonou and Porto Novo, economic slump has hit middle class hard

Financial sector

Financial sector: important allies for net-zero strategies

For good reason, central banks are increasingly paying attention to climate risks

Social stratification

“The promise of well-paid, secure jobs did not come true”

Oxfam strategist Duncan Green explains why the economic paradigm seems to be shifting internationally

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