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The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies has an explicit focus on sustainability.

Good News

Successful activism and WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies

The two pieces of good news this month are about the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies and on examples of activism that is paying off.

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by D+C / E+Z

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In December 2016, four elected presidents (Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone and John Dramani Mahama of Ghana) told Gambia’s autocratic leader Yahya Jammeh that his time was over. Due to elections, Johnson Sirleaf and Mahama are no longer in office today.

Democratic governance

A mixed bag

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by Vladimir Antwi-Danso

Letters to the editor

Issues that have contributed to African poverty

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by A.K. Ghosh
by Eva-Maria Bruchhaus
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Climate change

Coal against blackouts

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by Raphael Mweninguwe
Burundian refugees in Rwanda in 2015.

International law

Don’t let them off the hook

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by Darleen Seda
Flourishing no-tax industry: Kenyan flower farm.

Tax agreements

The true price of management fees

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by Catherine Ngina Mutava
The more people pay taxes, the better: market in Porto Novo, Benin.

Public finance

Incentives to become formal

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by Karim Okanla
Wari Sanda from Nigeria suffers from river blindness. His son Barmani accompanies him whenever he goes out. Nigeria has the highest infection rates for neglected tropical diseases in Africa.

Neglected tropical diseases

Networking instead of silo mentality

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by Esther Dopheide
Protest in London in August against British mining companies that are accused, among other things, of evading taxes in Africa.

Commodities

Missing billions

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by Nico Beckert

Food security

Pest exacerbates poverty

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by Humphrey Nkonde
The mining industry is Mongolia’s most important income source – and the experience with double taxation agreements has not been good.

Government revenues

Undermining statehood

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by Dereje Alemayehu