Poverty reduction

Kenyans worry about Chinese loans needed for prestigious railway project

African smallholders learn about cavy farming from South American producers

Zimbabwean women are taking on difficult menial jobs once held only by men

In Chile and Bolivia, protests are driven by social exclusion and excessive inequality

AfDB proposals for generating more productive employment in Africa

After dramatic social-spending cuts, it does not make much sense to speak of a European social model anymore

What impression European welfare states made on the leaders of former colonies

Carpenters, painters, architects and even young people with no formal education learn drywall construction at the Knauf training centre in Ghana

Fishermen on Zambia’s Lake Kariba are drowning in growing numbers

Researchers analyse the reasons why people emigrate or flee