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Children receiving a free meal at a soup kitchen in Caracas funded by the opposition.

National crisis

Venezuela on the brink

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by Francine Jácome
Control of the Suez Canal gives Egypt’s armed forces political influence and financial clout.

Business

Military empire

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by Ingy Salama
Young men enjoying a bicycle ride on the beach in the low-carbon city of Xiamen in South-West China. China is recently experiencing a bicycle and outdoor activity boom.

SDGs

China’s efforts

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by Berthold M. Kuhn
Berthold M. Kuhn
Burundian refugees in Rwanda in 2015.

International law

Don’t let them off the hook

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by Darleen Seda
The more people pay taxes, the better: market in Porto Novo, Benin.

Public finance

Incentives to become formal

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by Karim Okanla
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo wants the state to generate the revenues it needs.

National revenue services

Broaden the base; close loopholes

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by Stefanie Rauscher
by Hans Dembowski
Experts agree on the need for industrial policy: freighters transport tropical timber along the Congo near Kinshasa in the DR Congo.

Industrial policy

Pragmatism instead of ideology

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by Tilman Altenburg
by Wilfried Lütkenhorst
Protest in London in August against British mining companies that are accused, among other things, of evading taxes in Africa.

Commodities

Missing billions

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by Nico Beckert
Anti-Soros poster in Hungary: “Don’t let Soros have the last laugh.”

Government campaign

The slandering of a philanthropist

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by Dan Nolan
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