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Image by David Amen, inspired by the favelas in Rio de Janeiro.

Urban life

Cities have many faces

For this edition, we asked ourselves what makes a city liveable. Many of the problems faced by Nairobi – and the ways they are being tackled – are typical of big cities in the Global South. Let’s go and explore.

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

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Around 1,500 people protest the TPP in Peru in early February.

Free trade

Better without the TPP

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by Frederico Füllgraf
Don’t let it get this bad again: riots rocked Jakarta in the course of the Asian crisis in 1998.

Global economy

Deepening uncertainty

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by Iwan J. Azis
Investments in infrastructure provide basis for future growth – Cambodian construction site.

Orthodox economics

Beyond structural reforms

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by Iwan J. Azis
“In cooperation with the Asian Development Bank, Germany has launched an initiative for Asia’s fast growing cities. We can ensure today that cities grow in a climate-friendly way tomorrow.” Metro passenger in Delhi.

Interview

“Pool and share knowledge”

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by Hans-Joachim Fuchtel
Value added services in retail logistics at Imperial Logistics in South Africa.

Business

Risks can be minimised

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
PEGNet-Forscher im Februar be einem Vorbereitungstreffen im Kigali

PEGNet: call for papers

Regional integration in theory and practice

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China’s clout in the IMF is growing. A bull representing financial power in Shanghai.

International Monetary Fund

Back to original mission

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by Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho
Deeply involved in EU affairs: Christine Lagarde, IMF managing director, with Euclid Tsakalotos, the Greek finance minister, in Brussels in July 2015.

IMF

European discomfort

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by Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho
Ghana is considered a debt relief success story, but it is once again at high risk of insolvency. Construction workers in Accra.

HIPC Initiative

Back to square one

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by Jürgen Kaiser
Many least developed countries are particularly threatened by the effects of climate change. Cyclone Pam left a trail of destruction when it ripped through the impoverished Pacific island state of Vanuatu in 2015.

Climate change

Loss and damage gets a boost

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by Ellen Thalman