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In brief
Academic research

Property rights drive growth

To what extent do formal property rights serve economic growth?

Print edition

Contents September issue

D+C/E+Z: Contents page of September's print edition with links to all contributions

Climate change

Ready to face the worst

Nature offers ways to adapt to human-made climate change

Genocide

Protection from atrocities

Donors’ governments have difficulties assuming the UN defined Responsibility to Protect

News

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Failed States Index 2013, New governor for Reserve Bank of India, Gay rights activist killed in Cameroon, Re-election of Mugabe in Zimbabwe

World market

Haute couture

Designer fashion from Africa on the rise

Development research

Happily Uninformed?

PEGNet: German development agencies could make more use of recent research results, and knowledge brokers would help

SWP publication

The decisive challenge

SWP: Youth bulge results in greater economic opportunities – but also increases risks of conflict

Deprivation

Urban poverty

IIED expert says food insecurity is increasingly becoming urban phenomenon

Print edition

Contents July/August issue

D+C/E+Z: Contents page of July/August's print edition with links to all contributions

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Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.