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Smuggled petrol is sold on the highway between Cotonou and Porto Novo.

West Africa

Insufficient fire wood

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by Karim Okanla
Smog in Beijing, China.

Sustainability

“Skip out-dated technologies”

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by Imme Scholz
Rally against higher fuel prices in Jakarta last year.

Subsidies

Counter-productive policy

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by Anthony J. Jude
Many people are stuck in informal self-employment: road-side market in Lusaka.

Research

Give youth a chance

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Typically, people migrate for a short time and over short distances within nation states: delivery of poultry from a rural market in the Peruvian Andes.

Globalisation

WTO failure

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by Monika Hellstern
Informal businesses deserve a chance to grow into formal companies: hairdresser’s shop in Dakar, Senegal.

Private-sector development

Attracting investors

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by Floreana Miesen
Poverty has many dimensions: Wastepicker in Hong Kong.

Poverty

Redefining poverty

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by Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau
Middle classes are interested in protecting their standard of living, but don’t necessarily want to share with others: private swimming pool of a high-rise condominium in Sao Paulo.

Inequality

Self-serving middle classes

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by Hans Dembowski
Businesses in Mozambique need financial resources: harvesting plantation bananas in 2007.

Financial sector

A development bank for Mozambique

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by Katharina Braun
by Anna Luisa Paffhausen
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