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Protests in Argentina against the government’s recent loan application to the IMF.

Debt restructuring

Alternative structural adjustment

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by Jürgen Kaiser
Successful poverty-reduction programmes have reduced inequality in Bolivia.

Economic policy

Interfering in national sovereignty

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by Jürgen Kaiser
Informal employment is the norm: mobile CD shop in Moshi, Tanzania.

Failed policies

Descent into hell

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by Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Exporting industries need infrastructure: container port in Conakry, the capital of Guinea.

International financial institutions

More efficient multilateralism

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by Jürgen Zattler
No coherent vision: BRICS leaders in Xiamen, China, in 2017.

Policy doctrines

Straight talk on economics

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by Hans Dembowski
India’s private sector has grown fast: pharma lab in Hyderabad.

Economic policymaking

Low-hanging fruit

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by Salman Anees Soz
by Hans Dembowski
In Indonesia, IFI reputation has suffered long-term: protestor in Jakarta in 2006.

Crisis lending

Two lessons from structural adjustment

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by Iwan J. Azis
by Hans Dembowski
Aerial view of Bentiu settlements.

Emergency relief

“One of the greatest tragedies of our time”

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by Okello Ciro
Bus station for shared-taxis in Kampala, the capital of Uganda.

Transforming transportation

Combining digitalisation and mobility

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by Klaus Gihr
by Friederike Bauer
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