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Salesperson with skin-lightening product in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, in 2016.

Skin-whitening products

Why lighter complexions are associated with higher status

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by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
Melinda and Bill Gates in 2019.

Blog

Why taxes beat philanthropy

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by Hans Dembowski
Workers at the recycling facility.

Plastic

Balancing profits and staff welfare in Ivory Coast

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by Genesis Ehimegbe
by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Increasing purchasing power: shoppers in the electronic goods department of a store in Accra in 2007.

Our view

Foundations of broad-based prosperity

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
A good cotton harvest might help.

Recession

Growing dependence on Benin’s informal sector

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by Karim Okanla
More people have more choices: shoppers in Dhaka.

Growing prosperity

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

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by Homi Kharas
by Aviva Freudmann
Amid drought and high temperatures, wildfires raged in Argentina in October last year.

Financial sector

Financial sector: important allies for net-zero strategies

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by José Siaba Serrate
José Siaba Serrate
People lining up in the Indian city of Pune to buy Remdesivir in April 2021.

Industry strategies

Repurposing offers rays of hope

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by Krupali Patel
Mural in Soweto in 2002: HIV/AIDS was an increasingly devastating disease in southern Africa at the turn of the Millennium.

Multilateral affairs

Brief history of WTO flexibility regarding pharma patents

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by Hans Dembowski
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