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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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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
Illustration by Dadi Prayoga from Indonesia.

Our view

The power of the billions

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Shifts in international development cooperation were already evident at the IMF and World Bank Spring Meeting in April 2025.

World Bank

“We will always be the target of criticism”

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by Axel van Trotsenburg
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Transporting goods in Cotonou, Benin.

Poverty reduction

Strengthening access to markets for vulnerable groups

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by Arndt R. Brodkorb
Proportion of informal employment in total employment (2024)

Labour and employment

Facts and figures: the world of work today

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by Isah Shafiq
Demonstrations against Elon Musk and his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), which USAID has fallen victim to.

Development politics

Global voices on ending USAID, part 2

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by D+C / E+Z
In February, people demonstrated in front of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington against the government to support employees who had to vacate their offices.

Development politics

Global voices on ending USAID, part 1

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by D+C / E+Z
Many people worldwide work under difficult conditions: women carrying goods on their heads.

Our view

What decent work is all about

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
There are also women and children working in illegal cobalt mines in the DRC. Without cobalt and other raw materials needed for hardware, there would be no AI.

Technology

How AI exploits

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by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
by Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed
Distributing food to earthquake victims in Mandalay, Myanmar in early April.

Emergency aid

Humanitarian aid should not be driven by politics

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by Marvin Fürderer