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Getting a grip on dangerous trends

In the past ten years, dark visions have begun to reduce the euphoria about digital development opportunities

Diverging interests

Fishermen against hotel owners

Fishermen in Malawi cannot go fishing because of hotels on the shoreline

Blog

Why offshore financiers stoke nationalist sentiments

The rise of right-wing populism is closely linked to the growth of offshore finance

Informal work

Better education and training

More education is crucial to create less informal and more formal work

Inheritance law

Widows fight for their rights

In Zimbabwe, widows are legally entitled to their late husband’s assets, but in-laws often contest the inheritance

Investing

Remembering the “forgotten continent”

There are reasons why European investors are shying away from Africa

Blog

The US health-care system is not worth copying

Health care is a good example of the need to complement market dynamics with prudent state action

Impact investing

SDGs offer business opportunities

Expert from Brookings Institution assesses different sources of SDG funding

Escaping poverty

Bank transfers from Parmalat

A dairy co-operative in Zambia’s Copperbelt helps women escape poverty

Blog

Sudan is not China

Western media under-estimate the extent to which China opened up under authoritarian rule after the Tiananmen Square massacre

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Sustainability

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