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Gender equality

How a transgender tobacco farmer in Zimbabwe is fighting for dignity

In a country where queer people face exclusion, formal agriculture offers rare stability. Yet significant risks remain.

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by Lungelo Ndhlovu

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After criticising the government, Jack Ma disappeared from public life in 2020.

Political economy

How Xi Jinping is exacerbating China’s economic misery

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by Hans Dembowski
India’s workers would benefit from a law like China’s labour code: construction worker in Kolkata.

Political systems

Fighting poverty

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by Praveen Jha
By 2018, agriculture only accounted for a little more than a quarter of the labour force in China.

Asian giants

China is ahead of India

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by Praveen Jha
Teenage sex workers in Tangail, Bangladesh.

Illicit labour

Criminal girls

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by Sally Atkinson-Sheppard
Who is the role model? Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing in December 2018.

Blog

Xi Jinping is weaker than many observers believe

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by Hans Dembowski
The ministers of 11 nations celebrate the conclusion of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership in Santiago de Chile in March. The participating countries are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.

Global trade

“I do not know whether the WTO will survive”

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by Iwan J. Azis
by Hans Dembowski
Google search at a Thai internet café.

Asian economies

New cross-border competition policy

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by Yasuyuki Sawada
by Cyn-Young Park
by Hans Dembowski

Comment

Much needed injection of capital

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by Afshan Subohi

Blog

Distorted rhetoric at ADB conference

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by Hans Dembowski
Since it became a special economic zone in 1979, Shenzhen has grown from a small fishing town into a megacity of 15 million people.

China

“The leaders want to solve problems”

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by Ayumi Konishi