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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
The Bahamas are widely considered a tax haven.

Right-wing extremism

Global oligarchy, shrouded in secrecy

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by Hans Dembowski
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
In February 2025, Argentina’s president Javier Milei presented Elon Musk with his “chainsaw against bureaucracy”, and Musk exclaimed: “I am become meme.”

Far right

How the far right uses humour and meme culture to its advantage

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by Mirco Göpfert
by Konstanze N’Guessan
Health workers talk to a girl before she is vaccinated against cervical cancer at a health centre in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Health

A preventable disease

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by Frank Ekow Baiden
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
Textile workers protest in Dhaka, demanding payment of their wages before the Eid holidays.

Sustainable supply chains

“The law would be gutted before it even came into force”

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by Armin Paasch
by Leon Kirschgens
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