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Shared concern: Dirk Niebel and Bill Gates with Mark Dybul, the executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at a photo opportunity during the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2013.

Multilateral policymaking

Quantum leap

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by Dirk Niebel
Depending on local customers: rural retailer in Honduras.

Entrepreneurship

Village money

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by Carolina Carias
Lesson in the Glory Future Model School in Dhaka.

Primary education

School for slum children

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by Tom Frenzel
by Svetla Dimitrov
by Till Voigts
Monitoring showed that World Bank loans in support of the DRC government focussed on logging revenues rather than the fate of people who depend on forest resources: men building a raft to transport timber downstream.

International Finance Institutions

Most relevant review

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by Korinna Horta
A woman casting her vote in panchayat elections in Assam on 6 February.

Rural democracy

Living in the villages

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by Ipsita Sapra
Democratically elected local leaders play a role even in times of political crisis: Sadou Diallo, the mayor of Gao in northern Mali after returning to his town in January 2013.

Governance

A lever for reducing poverty

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by Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz
“Acleda currently has ­234 branch offices.”

Institutions

From NGO to commercial bank

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by Anja Strautz
Natural catastrophes worlwide 1980 – 2012

Global warming

Disaster statistics

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by Sandra Abild
African innovation: money transfer by mobile phone.

Finance

Moving forward

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by Geoffrey Muzigiti
by Oliver Schmidt
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