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Entrepreneurship

Building bridges between Zimbabwe’s diaspora and businesses at home

A new online platform connects Zimbabwean businesses to customers abroad and helps them foster trade and partnerships.

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by Lungelo Ndhlovu

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Gambling and other forms of addictive behaviour are particularly common in unequal societies – slot machines in Las Vegas.

Inequality

How addictive behaviours are linked to inequality

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by Hans Dembowski
Development policy must do more to protect children: needy children receive a warm meal in Zambia.

Development policy

Too little and too unambitious

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by Sabine Balk
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Mobile money services

Popular with employees and customers alike

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by Humphrey Nkonde
Classroom in 2015: overcrowding is typical of Liberia’s schools.

Primary schools

Public is waiting for government report

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by Samwar S. Fallah

Nexus

Points to keep in mind

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by Fabian Böckler
A village destroyed by Boko Haram near Maiduguri in Nigeria: The terrorist militia contributes to the destabilisation of the Lake Chad region.

Lake Chad region

Nexus makes sense

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by Fabian Böckler
Increasingly, even villagers want their daughters to learn: girl doing homework in Madhya Pradesh in 2007.

Social inclusion

The parents’ burden

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by Roli Mahajan
Cyclone Idai survivors rescued in boats to Beira, Mozambique, which had also been largely devastated.

Natural disaster

Mozambique faces enormous challenges

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Condoms save lives – and prevent pregnancies.

Schools

Indispensable lessons

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
Bolivian working children and youths rally for their rights in 2007.

Children’s rights

Bolivia bows to international pressure

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by Manfred Liebel