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Disparities persist: rickshaw puller in Kolkata.

Social cohesion

Good progress with further room for improvement

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by Roli Mahajan
OECD fragility framework 2018.

SDGs

Fragile statehood deserves special attention

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by Katja Dombrowski
The Dhaka based textile company Zaber & Zubair Fabrics has committed to achieving the SDGs and has set up a waste-water treatment plant of its own.

Finance

The SDGs and the private sector

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Marvia Malik, Pakistan’s first transgender TV anchor, addressing a press conference.

Hijras

History of a marginalised ­community

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by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank.

International finance institution

Dangerous transformation

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by Korinna Horta
India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee targets low-income households in rural areas: women working at minimum wage in Rajasthan.

Poverty targeting

Six main methodologies

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by James G. Bennett
Whose side are you on? Security forces operating in a favela in January 2018.

Mafia

Gangsters colluding with governments

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by Hans Dembowski
The township of Soweto, Johannesburg, with low-income housing in the foreground and more affluent suburbs in the background.

Urban Development

Inclusive cities

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by Monika Hellstern

Agriculture

Digital farming

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
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