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Infrastructure is improving – and mobile networks cover many African countries today.

Private sector

Don’t panic

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by Theresa Krinninger
A private car – or at least a private motorbike: For millions of Chinese people this dream is becoming reality.

Trade and urbanisation

Growing transport threatens climate

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by Katja Dombrowski
Brown algae, which are harvested in the fjords of Iceland, serve as a raw ­material for alternative fibres that may someday ­replace cotton.

Fibre raw materials

Alternatives to cotton

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by Marina Chahboune
Worker producing eco-jeans in a Tunisian factory.

Editorial

Made by human beings

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Burkina Faso dealer sells pesticides in village market. Farmers often use wrong quantities, damaging the soils.

Study

Soils need more protection

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by Katja Dombrowski
The working conditions of many seamstresses must improve – not only in Bangladesh.

Textile industry

Price does not guarantee fairness

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by Gisela Burckhardt
President Jim Yong Kim wants to reform the World Bank.

World Bank

Reforming root and branch

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by Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven
by Martin Kipping
Illegal loggers’ camp, subsequently used by informal miners.

West Africa

Small country, global challenge

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by Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor
A model on the Africa Fashion Day catwalk in Berlin.

World market

Haute couture

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by Griet Newiger-Addy
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