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Poverty

Major breakthrough

What last year’s update of the World Bank’s poverty line means

Health care

Zika and pharma research

Zika proves we need publicly funded pharma research

Can progress be bad?

Report of Survival International reveals many drawbacks indigenous people are exposed to

Economics is just another social science

Economic models are less accurate than their precise maths suggest

ISIS

Water as a weapon

ISIS is using water resources for military purposes

Fragile states

New spaces of violence in ungoverned places

Scholars assess organised violence in different forms and places

Scholars should not fall for the safety of numbers

Data must be relevant, not merely available

Safety nets

An underresearched topic

Recent publications on social protection in developing countries

Literature

Pastoralists as stewards of the environment

In many parts of the world, livestock farming does no environmental damage; it actually helps conserve nature

Editorial

Less is more

Meat must be produced in an animal- and environment-friendly way

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