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Increasing purchasing power: shoppers in the electronic goods department of a store in Accra in 2007.

Our view

Foundations of broad-based prosperity

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
More people have more choices: shoppers in Dhaka.

Growing prosperity

Middle-class lifestyles start with $ 10 per person and day

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by Homi Kharas
by Aviva Freudmann
“A pair of flip-flops does not amount to any kind of lasting prosperity”: construction workers on the outskirts of Dhaka.

Social stratification

“The promise of well-paid, secure jobs did not come true”

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by Duncan Green
by Hans Dembowski
IRC staff member taking off his personal protective equipment during Ebola outbreak in Goma in 2019.

Ebola and Covid-19

Lessons learned from Ebola and Covid-19

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by Mesfin Teklu Tessema

Street beggars

Changing hearts and minds

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by Raphael Mweninguwe
Kenyan nurse.

Our view

In the health sector, government action is indispensable

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by Hans Dembowski
Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus, gestures after receiving a vaccine shot in Cape Town in May.

Health care

Africans are learning lessons from other world regions

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by Benjamin M. Kagina
by Hans Dembowski

Forced labour

Slavery in all but name

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by Thuany Rodrigues
Disarming a former child soldier in Liberia 2003.

Liberia

Well-meant is not necessarily well done

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by Dagmar Wolf
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