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Congested traffic in Lima: at this month’s climate summit in Peru’s capital, participants will assess, among other things, various countries' contributions to causing climate change.

Multilateral affairs

Sharing global burdens

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by Jens Martens
Cyclone shelter in Bangladesh.

Editorial

Questions of ownership

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by Hans Dembowski
Better secondary education has led to higher wages in Latin America: schoolgirls in La Paz, Bolivia.

Relevant reading

Reduced inequality in Latin America

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by Rainer Thiele
A potato market in Colomi, Bolivia.

Social programmes

Escaping need

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by Linda Vierecke
by Christoph Peters
Every single person matters: traffic in Hanoi.

Measuring success

Counting statistics

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by Hans Dembowski
The economy is growing fast: construction site in Kigali in 2008.

Dynamic growth

Remarkable Progress

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by John Wesley Kabango
Rural women in particular have ­benefited from NGO activism.

Bangladesh

No “basket case”

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by Marianne Scholte
Vaccination campaign against polio in India.

Infectious diseases

“We need staying power”

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by Andrea Holzäpfel
Since it became a special economic zone in 1979, Shenzhen has grown from a small fishing town into a megacity of 15 million people.

China

“The leaders want to solve problems”

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by Ayumi Konishi
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