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By 2018, agriculture only accounted for a little more than a quarter of the labour force in China.

Asian giants

China is ahead of India

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by Praveen Jha

Mobile phones

Ringing up sales

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by Derrick Silimina
Minister Gerd Müller visiting a waste disposal site in Accra, Ghana.

Germany’s Federal Government

Encouraging enthusiasm

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by Hans Dembowski
Child soldiers of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone.

Civil wars

Children in terrorist organisations

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by Dagmar Wolf

Environment

Running dry

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by Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo
Informal businesses are common in Kenya: knife sharpening service in Nairobi.

Dysfunctional policy

Under-performing ODA darling

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by Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau
by Julia Schnatz
GiveDirectly is cost-efficient, bypasses bureaucracies and helps poor people take their fate into their own hands.

Official development assistance

Why taxation matters

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by Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau
by Julia Schnatz
Participants in an SDG conference in Kigali in 2019.

Our view

The crucial development challenge

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by Hans Dembowski
Religion has become a politically defining factor in Afghanistan: Eid Gah mosque in Kabul.

Failed state

A slide into war and chaos

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by Nawid Paigham
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