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The pace of urbanisation is unparalleled in human history. A slum in Cairo.

Habitat III

Urbanisation as opportunity

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by Franz-B. Marré
by Maria-Theres Haase
German and Ghanaian youth in Komenda: Francis Aidoo (left) and Leon Wilken and Lois Fontaine (on the right side).

weltwärts volunteers

“Our vision is to empower the youth”

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by Francis Aidoo
by Leon Wilken
by Lois Fontaine
The TransMilenio in Bogotá carries around 2 million passengers a day.

Bus Rapid Transit

TransMilenio – a model for success

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by Nicholas Hollmann
Carlos Collio and German volunteers in the school’s gym; Miriam Keller is standing in the middle.

weltwärts volunteers

“I never dreamed it would get this good”

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by Carlos Collio
by Miriam Keller
What a country exports, matters a lot: solar-panel production in China’s Jiangsu Province.

Foreign trade

Exports as drivers of growth

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by Clara Brandi
by Dominique Bruhn
The majority of young people in Kenya rely for employment on the informal sector: a market in Nairobi, Kenya.

Youth unemployment

A ticking time bomb

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by Helmut Danner
Aid for trade is meant to diversify a country’s export industry. Garden furniture produced for export in Ghana.

Aid effectiveness

Modest impact

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by Peter Nunnenkamp
by Rainer Thiele
Africa’s metropolitan middle class has similar consumer demand as its counterpart in industrial countries: fashion show in Lagos.

Government guarantees

New strategy for Africa

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by Christoph Kannengießer
Coastal fishermen: Mozambique is still quite poor.

Foreign trade

Mozambique’s foreign trade weakness

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by Friedrich Kaufmann
by Winfried Borowczak
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