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Workers supervise the unloading of metro train cars in Bogota, after disembarking from China, in September 2025.

China in Latin America

An unexpected boost for democracy

Critics have warned that Chinese projects could chip away at democracy in Latin America. Our research suggests the opposite may be happening.

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by Marcela Ibáñez
by Alain Schläpfer

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The Southeast Asian company Grab has grown from a start-up into a multinational technology company offering a “super-app” for ride-hailing, food delivery and digital payment services.

Technical infrastructure

How start-ups are plugging infrastructure gaps in the Global South

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by Wolfgang Krieger
Bhutan is the first country that has become carbon negative.

Good news

Bhutan’s successful climate action and Vietnam’s new AI law

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by D+C / E+Z
Protests in the run-up to SpaceX’s initial public offering, which made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.

Plutocracy

Another step towards Muskism

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by Hans Dembowski
Russian oligarch Alexei Mordashov’s “Nord” yacht passed through the Strait of Hormuz in April 2026. Picture taken in the Eastern Bosphorus Strait in 2022.

Power and wealth

The oligarchs’ world is here. What can we do about it?

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by David Lingelbach
by Valentina Rodríguez Guerra
Will the UN Sustainable Development Goals be abandoned after 2030? Their future is uncertain.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Four future scenarios for the 2030 Agenda

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by Johannes Kummerow
by Jörn Geißelmann
Romita Ghosh, founder of MAAP (Malnutrition Assessment and Action Plan).

India

Romita Ghosh uses AI to fight malnutrition

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by Romita Ghosh
by Roli Mahajan
Supporters of Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar during a march to commemorate the 1956 Hungarian revolution in Budapest in 2025.

Democracy Index

The path to autocracy is reversible

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by Marius Moniak
For boys and girls all over the world, football also means having opportunities.

Football

The world’s greatest game

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
There is so much out there these days – since last year, there has even been a peace prize awarded by the football association. FIFA President Gianni Infantino and US President Donald Trump at the award ceremony.

FIFA

Does international football need to reinvent itself?

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by Alina Schwermer
Exploitative conditions continue to prevail in mining regions of the Global South.

Fair trade

Critical minerals: unearthing injustice

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by Jörg Döbereiner