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Poverty Reduction
Diaspora communities

To Filipinos, labour migration is normal, not unusual

Masses of Filipino women live and work abroad

Labour migration

Preserving the lifeline of migrants’ remittances

For many developing countries, reduced remittances and less foreign-direct investment are a double whammy

Fighting poverty

A world without hunger is possible

Gerd Müller, Germany’s federal minister for economic cooperation and development, assesses multi-dimensional Covid-19 crisis

Informal vendors

A battle for the streets

Informal vendors fight for the right to sell on the streets of Malawi

Blog

German government officer assesses the limits of ODA

Competences needed for improving international aid efforts

Urban lives
Slum-dwellers

India’s commercial hub is a city of migrants

Masses of people who live in Mumbai’s miserable slums appreciate the city’s many opportunities

Obstetric fistula

Marginalised for reasons of health

Obstetric fistula causes suffering and exclusion for many thousands of women

Health

Medical myths may be deadly – in Zambia, for instance

Zambia’s rise in dead-on-arrival cases may result from misconceptions about Covid-19

Urban life

Rio’s poor have reason to fear the police

The vast majority in Brazil’s poor communities are not involved in crime

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