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Cocoa harvest in Ghana: For cocoa farmers, the billion-dollar market often does not yield much.

Supply chains

Tracking cocoa from tree to trade

Ghana has tested a digital system that aims to make cocoa supply chains more transparent and help the sector meet EU sustainability requirements. Farmers hope to benefit as well.

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by Nastaran Zarnegari
by Francis Dadzie Mintah

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Increasing purchasing power: shoppers in the electronic goods department of a store in Accra in 2007.

Our view

Foundations of broad-based prosperity

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
A good cotton harvest might help.

Recession

Growing dependence on Benin’s informal sector

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by Karim Okanla
Amid drought and high temperatures, wildfires raged in Argentina in October last year.

Financial sector

Financial sector: important allies for net-zero strategies

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by José Siaba Serrate
José Siaba Serrate
“A pair of flip-flops does not amount to any kind of lasting prosperity”: construction workers on the outskirts of Dhaka.

Social stratification

“The promise of well-paid, secure jobs did not come true”

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by Duncan Green
by Hans Dembowski
People lining up in the Indian city of Pune to buy Remdesivir in April 2021.

Industry strategies

Repurposing offers rays of hope

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by Krupali Patel
Mask-wearing activists demand more consequential Covid-19 action from G7 in Cornwall.

Blog

G7 takes tiny steps in the right directions

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by Hans Dembowski

Agriculture

Useful insects

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by Farai Shawn Matiashe
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Multilateral cooperation

Why February 2020 became the month of lost opportunities

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by Hans Dembowski
IRC staff member taking off his personal protective equipment during Ebola outbreak in Goma in 2019.

Ebola and Covid-19

Lessons learned from Ebola and Covid-19

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by Mesfin Teklu Tessema
Participants in an event to celebrate International Women’s Day in Kabul in 2018.

Islamism

Islamist ideology has softened a bit in Afghanistan

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by Rishikesh Thapa