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Volkswirtschaftliche Entwicklung

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
More people have more choices: shoppers in Dhaka.

Growing prosperity

Middle-class lifestyles start with $ 10 per person and day

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by Homi Kharas
by Aviva Freudmann
“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

Agriculture

Useful insects

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by Farai Shawn Matiashe

Learning Chinese

The Mandarin road to success

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by Derrick Silimina
In Malawi, most people depend on subsistence agriculture.

Malawi

Democratic achievements, but insufficient growth

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by Rolf Drescher

Zambia

Think local, buy local

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by Derrick Silimina
The African Continental Free Trade Area creates opportunities for Africa: Workers of a factory producing sodium silicate in Kenya.

Continental Free Trade Area

A milestone for African trade

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by Christoph Kannengießer
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