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Teenage sex workers in Tangail, Bangladesh.

Illicit labour

Criminal girls

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by Sally Atkinson-Sheppard
GALZ activists with a photo of one of themselves in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Homophobia

“I have no place in society”

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by Grace Badza
Rainforest in Brazil: Emerging markets are very important for providing and safeguarding global public goods.

ODA

Beyond the threshold

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by Michael Krempin
This graphs shows the ratio of the OECD donors’ total official development assistance to their combined gross international income.

Multilateral agenda

Unprecedented – but underfunded

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by Belay Begashaw
Spending on refugees in OECD countries counts as ODA: Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.

ODA

The end of certainties

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by Stephan Klingebiel
An example of new forms of cooperation: a joint Paraguayan, Indonesian and German side event at the BAPA+40 conference.

South-South cooperation

Cooperation of the future

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by Luiz Ramalho
by Rita Walraf
by Ulrich Müller
Nairobi Terminus: China is financing major infrastructure projects in many developing countries.

Global affairs

Pecking order of nations

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by Doris Fischer
by Hans Dembowski
Informal retail business in Addis Ababa: To make taxes acceptable, governments must provide good infrastructure and services.

Public finance

Improving African tax revenues

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by Dereje Alemayehu
The new metro line in the Indian metropolis of Nagpur is being built with support from German ODA via KfW Development Bank.

Impact investing

SDGs offer business opportunities

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by Homi Kharas
by Hans Dembowski
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