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Indigenous community in Ecuador sharing a meal.

Buen Vivir

The good life

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by Philipp Altmann
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
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
Growth in itself will not solve urban infrastructure problems: small shops on the outskirts of Nairobi.

Global trends

In urgent need of development

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by Belay Begashaw
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru visiting Washington in 1949: US President Harry Truman declared “development” of “underdeveloped” countries to be the goal of foreign policy during the Cold War.

“Development”

False promises, questionable term

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by Aram Ziai
by Julia Schöneberg
Queen Elizabeth II and President Kwame Nkrumah depicted on a billboard in Accra in 1961 ahead of the monarch’s visit to the former colony Ghana, which was then considered to be an “underdeveloped” country.

International relations

From “underdevelopment” to the SDGs

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by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
Non-violent communication workshop at the women’s cooperation Nisaa Kaderat (Capable Women).

Collective memories

Legacy of wounds

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by Miriam Modalal
by Dalilah Reuben-Shemia
White farmers still own most of the commercial farming land.

Land restitution

Righting a wrong

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by Henning Melber
Hindu fanatics tearing down Babri Mosque in 1992.

Recurring trauma

Feelings of aggravation

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by Arfa Khanum Sherwani
Arfa Khanum Sherwani
by Hans Dembowski
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