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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
“Banks did a lot of things that were geared to raking in high speculation profits and triggering massive bonus payments”: Frankfurt’s stock exchange.

Banking

“Exceedingly high interest rates”

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by Bruno Wenn
Tazreen factory after the November fire.

Working conditions

Limited union rights

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by Gisela Burckhardt
by Dominic Kloos
Women must not work only in the informal sector: selling snacks in a market in the north of Cameroon.

Private Sector

Untapped business potential

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by Marie Pardey
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