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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
China is struggling with the consequences of growth, not only in the Pearl River Delta region.

News

In brief

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United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.

Public participation

Listen to civil society

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by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
Members of a women’s cooperative that produces shea butter from nuts in Burkina Faso.

Cooperatives

Motors of prosperity

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by Gerrit Wiesmann
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
Disability and inclusion

Print edition

Contents August/September issue

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United Nations

Proposed goals for global sustainability

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Selling authoritarian regimes surveillance technology “is as dangerous as selling assault rifles”, warns an expert. Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is one of the beneficiaries.

Media

Ambivalent trends

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by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
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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