Development and
Cooperation

All monthly issues
Self-driving cars could reduce congestion in megacities like Nairobi.

Technology

Generating broad-based wealth

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by Benjamin Kumpf
by Hans Dembowski
A doctor examining a child at a hospital on the outskirts of Cotonou.

Demographic change

Progress may not be sustained

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by Karim Okanla
The G20 must rise to the challenge of digitally-enabled trade.

Industry 4.0

The digitalisation of world trade

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Environment

Burundi bans plastic bags

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by Mireille Kanyange

What The Economist gets wrong about liberalism

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by Hans Dembowski
Research team working on the first African electric car.

Technology

Digital disruption

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by Wilfried Lütkenhorst
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United Nations

70 years of human rights policy

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by Michael Windfuhr
Presidents with authoritarian tendencies: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Human rights

A worrisome trend reversal

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by Michael Windfuhr
Young women on a youth centre sewing course in Egypt: Young people in the MENA region lack the right training and education.

Skills training

Low standard, wrong content

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by Nassir Djafari
A Dutch vegetable producer in Tunisia: the MENA region is short of businesses like this.

Youth unemployment

Focused agenda needed

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by Nassir Djafari
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