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Eager to leave: when Saudi Arabia announced 10,000 workers would be recruited last, young men climbed over the fence of Dhaka’s Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry to register.

Human rights

“A situation of bonded labour”

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by Ridwanul Hoque
K.V. Kamath (l), first president of the New Development Bank, with China’s finance minister Lou Jiwei and Shanghai mayor Yang Xiong (r) at the inauguration ceremony of the new international financial institution in Shanghai in July 2015.

Multilateral banks

New players with handicaps

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by Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann
Tablets and smartphones are in use all over the world today – here in Ethiopia.

Development policy

Opportunities and risks

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by Julia Manske
Digitalisation permeates every aspect of life.

Inequality

Building bridges

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by Dominik Hartmann
South Sudanese journalist working in Kenya.

Mobile reporting

Opportunities of digital journalism

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by Ochan Hannington
Students with smartphones in Kolkata.

Participation

Unequal access

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by Dinesh C. Sharma
Refugees reach the Greek island of Lesbos.

Relevant reading

Freedom and development

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by Stefan Rother
Bees are the most important pollinators. Beehives in trees in Ethiopia.

Biodiversity

Rising to global threat

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by Katja Dombrowski
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (right) at a meeting with Mohammad bin Salman, Saudi deputy crown prince and defence minister.

Middle East

End of generosity

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by Sebastian Sons
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