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Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF’s managing director, at an Africa summit in Paris in May 2021.

IMF

More financial power for developing countries

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by Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann
Pupil in Burundi.

Our view

Recurring infringements of children’s rights

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Worker in a Jumia warehouse in Lagos.

E-commerce

Africa’s Amazon

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by Bimbola Oyesola
Bimbola Oyesola
Students at an Assamese college: universities provide spaces with special freedom to young women, so in-person classes are preferable to digital teaching.

Online classes

What new problems digitised classrooms create

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by Ipsita Sapra
In Pakistan, girls are less likely to conclude primary school than boys: teacher with pupils in Hyderabad.

Girls

Pakistan is among the worst countries for girls

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by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
Chris Donahue was the last US soldier departing Kabul on 30 August.

Afghanistan

Broken promises and western failure in Afghanistan

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by Paul D. Miller
by Hans Dembowski
Not many women are as successful as Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (right). She is the founder and Managing Director of India’s premier biotechnology company, Biocon Limited. In 2006, she and Bollywood star actor Shah Rukh Khan (l.) launched an innovative cancer drug.

Financial inclusion

Investing in women

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by Jen Braswell
by Aviva Freudmann

Banking

“Village banks” face winds of change

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by Raphael Mweninguwe
Microfinance institution agency in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Aid effectiveness

Limiting economic Corona ­damage

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by Maren van Treel
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