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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.

by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

13.02.2026

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Commodities

To whom belong the bounties of the world?

by Sheila Mysorekar

27.02.2013

Monitoring showed that World Bank loans in support of the DRC government focussed on logging revenues rather than the fate of people who depend on forest resources: men building a raft to transport timber downstream.

International Finance Institutions

Most relevant review

by Korinna Horta

19.02.2013

President François Hollande visiting Timbuktu in February.

Intervention

Françafrique à la Hollande

by Yahouza Sadissou

14.02.2013

Surrendering weapons in Herat, Afghanistan, in November 2012.

Crisis prevention

Evaluation and quality control

by Floreana Miesen

11.02.2013

“Acleda currently has 234 branch offices.”

Institutions

From NGO to commercial bank

by Anja Strautz

05.02.2013

Natural catastrophes worlwide 1980 – 2012

Global warming

Disaster statistics

by Sandra Abild

04.02.2013

“Poor developing countries also felt the impacts of the crisis – especially when their export earnings slumped in 2009”: Ghanaian exports pineapples.

Multilateral institutions

Crisis credit

by Kathrin Berensmann

by Ulrich Volz

by Peter Wolff

31.01.2013

South Africa’s new rand bills first came into circulation in November last year.

Editorial

Specific business models

by Hans Dembowski

29.01.2013

“Banks did a lot of things that were geared to raking in high speculation profits and triggering massive bonus payments”: Frankfurt’s stock exchange.

Banking

“Exceedingly high interest rates”

by Bruno Wenn

25.01.2013

Soldiers from Chad intervening in the Central African Republic in support of President Bozizé.

Fragile statehood

Restart

by Thierry Vircoulon

24.01.2013