Development and
Cooperation

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Development Investment Fund

Linking policies on development and trade

Private-sector involvement is vital for Africa’s world-market integration

Global warming

IPCC special report and Climate Change Conference

IPCC special report published ahead of the UN climate change conference in Poland in December

Global warming

A Herculean task

Climate experts call for global warming to be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100

Human trafficking

Deeply rooted slavery

Although slavery is illegal, it still exists in many countries – Mauritania for example

Afghanistan

A sad record

Most illegal opiate profits accrue outside Afghanistan

Multilateral bank

Vast role for governments

World Bank wants governments to do more to build human capital, generate taxes and provide social protection

Honduras

Protesting youth

Honduran youth protest against poverty, lack of prospects, corruption and violence

Lebanon

Fear of exclusion

Non-extreme poverty is a major problem in Lebanon, and state agencies do not help

PEGNet conference

Education for social advancement

Quality education for all helps to overcome social inequality

Informal employment

Fixing broken phones

Some IT graduates in Zambia find livelihoods by repairing mobile phones

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