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By the end of 2012, about 30 % of South Africans were dependent on some kind of social grant: old man in Langa township, Cape Town.

Social protection

The South African social contract

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by Henning Melber
In Namibia, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer: view on Swakopmund, a popular holiday destination for rich Namibians.

Social protection

Rich region, poor people

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by Henning Melber
Self-employed people in the informal sector normally cannot save much money for hard times: street vendor in Kano.

Social infrastructure

No rest in retirement

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by Damilola Oyedele
The Asian Development Bank's Social Protection Index

Infrastructure

Not for everyone

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by Ipsita Sapra
Consultation room in a Bolivian community bank.

Microinsurance

Healthy clients

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by Caroline Sölle de Hilari
Poverty in old age: Many senior citizens supplement their income as gardeners.

Social insurance

Modernity has arrived

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by Katja Dombrowski
Violence may flare up any time: wreck of car bomb in Baghdad in late September 2013.

OECD guidelines

Forgotten principles

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by Vera Dicke
In 2008, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung was still able to work freely in Egypt: a lecture for Muslim leaders.

Democratic principles

Tough challenges

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by Wolfgang Maier
by Sebastian Fuchs
Indigenous Toba people live in the Chaco province, Northern Argentina.

Ecological destruction

Conquest by chainsaw

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by Julio César Bernio
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