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Our view
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Foundations of broad-based prosperity

How the middle class matters in a country’s development

Growing prosperity
Homi Kharas
Aviva Freudmann

Middle-class lifestyles start with $ 10 per person and day

The middle class is expanding, particularly in developing countries

Foreign doctors
Javier A. Cisterna Figueroa

Looking for a job

Chile’s health system attracts waves of foreign doctors but many can’t find jobs

Social stratification
Duncan Green
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“The promise of well-paid, secure jobs did not come true”

Oxfam strategist Duncan Green explains why the economic paradigm seems to be shifting internationally

Price negotiations
Aviva Freudmann

Paying over the odds

Thrashing out a vaccines pricing deal with multiple players

Intellectual property
Marion Lieser

INGO opposes vaccine patents

Oxfam explains how current pricing and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines highlight global inequality

Street beggars
Raphael Mweninguwe

Changing hearts and minds

Government tries ‘mind-set change strategy’ to clear Malawi’s streets of beggars

Rural health care
Sumeya Issa

Medicines and supplies are difficult to find in rural Malawi

Rural Malawians are poorly served by clinics lacking medicines and expertise

Forced labour
Thuany Rodrigues

Slavery in all but name

Slavery is formally illegal in Brazil but in practice it is still widespread

Climate change
Waldo Soto Bruna

Why Chile can set an example in environmental protection

Chile lost the chance to host COP25 on its soil in 2019, but could shine at COP26

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Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
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Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
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Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
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Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust