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World Bank rhetoric contributes to distorted public image

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by Hans Dembowski
K.V. Kamath (l), first president of the New Development Bank, with China’s finance minister Lou Jiwei and Shanghai mayor Yang Xiong (r) at the inauguration ceremony of the new international financial institution in Shanghai in July 2015.

Multilateral banks

New players with handicaps

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by Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann
Indigenous women in the Peruvian Andes: the world’s poorest people do not benefit from spending that serves to provide for refugees in Germany.

German policy

Credibility test

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by Bernd Bornhorst
The wrong role models: Yoweri Museveni of Uganda (with hat) and Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi in Bujumbura in July 2015.

Elections

Building a democratic order

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by Hans Dembowski
Protest in Hong Kong: China’s human-rights record is casting a long shadow over how the AIIB might operate in the future.

Global role model

Harmful competition

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by Korinna Horta
Boat on the Niger river in Mali: dams on rivers can endanger the livelihoods of fishing communities.

Global role model

Rolling back protection

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by Korinna Horta
Don’t let it get this bad again: riots rocked Jakarta in the course of the Asian crisis in 1998.

Global economy

Deepening uncertainty

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by Iwan J. Azis
Investments in infrastructure provide basis for future growth – Cambodian construction site.

Orthodox economics

Beyond structural reforms

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by Iwan J. Azis
Ghana is considered a debt relief success story, but it is once again at high risk of insolvency. Construction workers in Accra.

HIPC Initiative

Back to square one

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by Jürgen Kaiser
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