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Better secondary education has led to higher wages in Latin America: schoolgirls in La Paz, Bolivia.

Relevant reading

Reduced inequality in Latin America

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by Rainer Thiele
A potato market in Colomi, Bolivia.

Social programmes

Escaping need

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by Linda Vierecke
by Christoph Peters
The Charter for the Future calls for more intensive inter-faith dialogue: Bishop Karsten Nissen from Denmark went to Cairo in 2006 to discuss with Muslim leaders cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that had been published by the newspaper Jyllands Posten.

German policy

Points of reference

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by Hans Dembowski
Every single person matters: traffic in Hanoi.

Measuring success

Counting statistics

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by Hans Dembowski
President Dilma Rousseff (centre) with her predecessors Lula da Silva (left) and Fernando Cardoso in 2012.

Brazil

In need of new approaches

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by Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho
Rural women in particular have ­benefited from NGO activism.

Bangladesh

No “basket case”

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by Marianne Scholte
Vaccination campaign against polio in India.

Infectious diseases

“We need staying power”

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by Andrea Holzäpfel
On average, a village household in Myanmar spends about 20 hours a month collecting fire wood.

Sustainable Development Goals

The global dimension

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by Tetsuro Yoshida
by Noriko Shimizu
Almost all rural households have electric power in Vietnam, but supply still tends to be unreliable.

Renewables

Rural network must improve

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by Do Thi Bich Ngoc
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