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Smuggled petrol is sold on the highway between Cotonou and Porto Novo.

West Africa

Insufficient fire wood

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by Karim Okanla
Rally against higher fuel prices in Jakarta last year.

Subsidies

Counter-productive policy

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by Anthony J. Jude
Farm woman taking egg plants to a market in the Indian state of Odisha.

Development agencies

Learning step by step

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by Hans Dembowski
Many people are stuck in informal self-employment: road-side market in Lusaka.

Research

Give youth a chance

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Farhiyo Yusuf, shopkeeper in a camp for internally displaced persons.

Microfinance

Women’s economic empowerment

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by Abdirahim S. Gure
Internationally, 17 of 100 children will never enrol in primary school: biology class in Nairobi.

Human Development Report 2014

Progress for everybody

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

United Nations

Proposed goals for global sustainability

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Formal-sector jobs make a difference: sorting cashmere wool in Ulaan Bataar.

Editorial

The real challenge

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by Hans Dembowski
A diverse diet is the best way to avoid micronutrient deficiency: selling vegetables in Zanzibar.

Malnutrition

Strategies against hidden hunger

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by Katja Dombrowski
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