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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
Slum in the Indian state of Jharkhand: new strategies are required. Heldur Netocny/Lineair

Strategies

Beyond aid – new ways forward?

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by Stephan Klingebiel
by Sebastian Paulo
by Heiner Janus
Caption: Anti-government demonstrations in São Paulo in June: civil-society organisations want global governance to respond positively to social protests.

Relevant reading

An alternative model of governance

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by Nadja Meisterhans
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
Waste collector scavenging metals from torn-down houses in Shenyang, China.

Editorial

Radical and far-reaching

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by Hans Dembowski
Agent-orange victim selling souvenirs in Ho-Chi-Minh-City: people with disabilities tend to be marginalised.

Inclusion

One billion people overlooked

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by Emma Samman
by Laura Rodriguez Takeuchi
by Esther Sommer
Inequality has been growing almost everywhere: slum huts and highrise buildings in Manila in 2009.

Inequality

Leave no one behind, let no one get away

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by Paul Quintos
Dinesh C. Sharma

Nowadays

Take the poo to the loo

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by Dinesh C. Sharma
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