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Lebanon

Fear of exclusion

Non-extreme poverty is a major problem in Lebanon, and state agencies do not help

PEGNet conference

Education for social advancement

Quality education for all helps to overcome social inequality

Development finance

Sweeping changes envisaged

Expert forecasts that ODA will give ground to private investment

Development strategy

“People have created poverty”

Anthropologist reframes poverty the result of plundering by a few people in rich countries at poor countries’ expense

Health care

Free access for the extremely poor

The Health Equity Fund is improving access to health care for the poorest people in Cambodia

Food security

Pioneering urban agriculture

How “production in the community, by the community, for the community” became the paradigm of agricultural policy in Cuba

Social inclusion

Recognising a minority’s human rights

A new law confirms that transgender persons enjoy the same rights as other citizens do in Pakistan

Multilateral bank

Reform gone wrong

The World Bank’s social and environmental standards have been weakened significantly

Poverty alleviation

Costs and benefits of poverty targeting

The more accurate a poverty-targeting strategy is, the more expensive it is

International relations

Reconsidering development cooperation

The aid system must adapt to a fast changing world and rise to new challenges

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