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A woman casting her vote in panchayat elections in Assam on 6 February.

Rural democracy

Living in the villages

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by Ipsita Sapra
Democratically elected local leaders play a role even in times of political crisis: Sadou Diallo, the mayor of Gao in northern Mali after returning to his town in January 2013.

Governance

A lever for reducing poverty

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by Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz
In the end, Spain triumphed.

Sports

South Africa 2010 – Germany 2006

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“Acleda currently has ­234 branch offices.”

Institutions

From NGO to commercial bank

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by Anja Strautz
“Poor developing countries also felt the impacts of the crisis – especially when their export earnings slumped in 2009”: Ghanaian exports pineapples.

Multilateral institutions

Crisis credit

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by Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann
by Ulrich Volz
by Peter Wolff
African innovation: money transfer by mobile phone.

Finance

Moving forward

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by Geoffrey Muzigiti
by Oliver Schmidt

Public-sector bank

Relative insulation

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by Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho
Tazreen factory after the November fire.

Working conditions

Limited union rights

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by Gisela Burckhardt
by Dominic Kloos
Rural development banks need other rules than multinational investment banks: farmers’ market in Peru’s Andes.

Financial markets

Too much of the same

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by Jayati Ghosh
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