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Weltwirtschaft

The spinning mill of the DBL Group is clean as a whistle.

Garment production

Glimmers of hope

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
What most seamstresses earn in Bangladesh does not provide a decent living.

World economy

Sustainability requires fair wages

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Supermarket chains destroy traditional shops and markets. Supermarket in Mumbai, India.

Corporate Atlas 2017

Controlling our food

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by Theresa Krinninger
Many businesses gain from globalisation: frozen pizza of the German Dr. Oetker brand for sale in a supermarket in Shanghai.

Globalisation

Growing inequality and environmental dangers

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by Jürgen Wiemann
Excessively cheap EU exports destroy local markets: chicken farm in Senegal.

World trade

The fig-leaf approach to human rights

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by Armin Paasch
What a country exports, matters a lot: solar-panel production in China’s Jiangsu Province.

Foreign trade

Exports as drivers of growth

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by Clara Brandi
by Dominique Bruhn
“Shenzhen has become quite big and quite prosperous.”

Special economic zones

“Improve people’s lives”

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by Jong Woo Kang

Afterthoughts concerning the G20 summit in China

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by Hans Dembowski
Supporters of Benazir Bhutto after she was murdered shortly before the 2008 general elections.

Governance

Difficult setting

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by Afshan Subohi
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