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Poverty Reduction
Democracy

The ANC’s real crisis

The ANC’s big problem is that it has not brought about the social change it promised in the anti-Apartheid struggle

Women’s health

Avoidable surgical interventions

India has too many unsafe abortions – and too many Caesarean sections

Women’s health

Still a distant dream

Despite considerable progress, India’s maternal mortality rate remains very high

Employment

Pakistan needs jobs

Reasons to doubt the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor will massively boost employment in Pakistan

Small businesses

Earning money with scorpion poison

Award encourages private entrepreneurship and small businesses start ups in Libya

Africa

No development without tax revenue

A new partnership with Africa to improve domestic resource mobilisation

Letter to the editor

Marshall Plan with Africa must succeed

African SMEs need better financial services and more competent vocational training, and Germany can help

Land policy

How to ease tensions in Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, too many farmers have lost their fields as a consequence of large-scale international investments

Gender

Empowering women for economic growth

Women in Togo fight for equal economic opportunities

Colonial legacy

No land in sight

Despite independence since 1990, land ownership remains unfairly distributed in Namibia

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