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The ILO demands better job opportunities for women: hairdresser training in Togo.

Labour market

Disadvantaged women

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by Linda Engel
Spatial inequality causes tensions: informal settlement in front of regular housing in Nairobi.

PEGNet Conference

Measures to reduce inequality

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
In Manshiet Nasr, Egypt, an NGO that employs women produces patchwork plaids and other textiles from old clothes.

Social entrepreneurship

A balancing act

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by Bettina Meier
Female worker in a garment factory in Bangladesh.

Editorial

Global social contract

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by Katja Dombrowski
Supermarket entrance in Dhaka.

Structural change

The retail revolution

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by Tilman Altenburg
The DBL Group uses cutting-edge technology and meets high occupational safety and environmental standards at its dyeing facility in Dhaka.

Development Effectiveness Rating

Measuring how good a job is

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by Christiane Rudolph
Fishermen in the Philippines receive government loans for climate-change adaptation projects.

Green Climate Fund

Signalling effect for global climate finance

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by Liane Schalatek
Flooding in Houston: will decentralised action suffice where national governments deny climate change?

Relevant reading

Great disenchantment

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by Hans-Jochen Luhmann
“If humankind keeps using concrete, steel and aluminium at the current rate to build cities, we will be unable to keep global warming below two degrees”: construction site in Kolkata.

Infrastructure

“We need to build shock resilience”

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by Dirk Messner
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