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Poverty Reduction
Development policy

Too little and too unambitious

Welthungerhilfe and terre des hommes are calling for more money for official development assistance and more ambitious policies

Mobile money services

Popular with employees and customers alike

Mobile-phone companies in Zambia give unemployed youth a chance

Primary schools

Public is waiting for government report

Authorities shy away from discussing results of Liberian private-public partnership in primary education

Nexus

Points to keep in mind

How the Nexus approach can be successfully implemented in the Lake Chad Basin

Lake Chad region

Nexus makes sense

In the Lake Chad Basin crisis, humanitarian aid alone will not do – development support and peace promotion are needed too

Social inclusion

The parents’ burden

In India, a growing number of economically disadvantaged parents are sending their children to private schools

Natural disaster

Mozambique faces enormous challenges

After Cyclone Idai, Mozambique needs a new natural-disaster prevention and city planning

Schools

Indispensable lessons

Why teenage girls need sex education even more than teenage boys do

Children’s rights

Bolivia bows to international pressure

Bolivia abandons pioneering legal reform for working children

Our view

Markets leave some people behind

The top priority must be to ensure that state-run schools perform well

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