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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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Harvesting rice in Lalitpur, Nepal.

Readers’ opinion

Letters to the editor

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by D+C / E+Z
Farmer releases fish into a rice field in Qingtian County, China.

Traditional agriculture

Traditional agricultural ecosystems harbour remarkable biodiversity

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by Min Qingwen
by Guo Xuan
Blank pages stood for no freedom of speech: protesters in Beijing in late November.

Pandemic

How Beijing managed to calm protests fast

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by Berthold M. Kuhn
Berthold M. Kuhn

International finance institutions

Two multilateral banks based in China

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by Praveen Jha
This year’s BRICS summit was a digitised event.

International relations

A brief history of the BRICS

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by Praveen Jha
Chloé Zhao at the Academy Awards ceremony.

Blog

Why Xi Jinping’s government is weaker than it seems

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by Hans Dembowski
Top leaders: Kristalina Georgieva of the IMF with Xi Jinping, President of China, in Beijing in 2019.

Development finance

China is offering alternatives to IMF programmes

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by James Sundquist
Wind farm in northwest China.

CO2 emissions

Make Xi keep his climate promises

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by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Exhibition stand of the Export-Import Bank of China.

Bilateral lending

Understanding Chinese development loans

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by Claudia Isabel Rittel
“Money laundering in prosperous financial centres is compounding the fiscal problems of developing countries.” Frankfurt skyline.

Public finance

In the driver’s seat

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by Dereje Alemayehu
by Hans Dembowski