global development
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Overseas Development Institute identifies reduced trade, fall in value of aid money and declining growth among factors that could hit poor countries
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Young women are challenging traditional roles to train as taxi drivers, part of a programme to empower children from marginalised families
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The World Food Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organisation are collaborating on a scheme to reinvigorate food production in Central African Republic, where prolonged conflict has undermined food security
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Counsellors in Sierra Leone are drawing on their experience of the country’s civil war to offer emotional and pyschological support to those affected by Ebola
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Funds to be channeled towards improving opportunities for marginalised girls as UK backs global push for universal primary and secondary education by 2030
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Around 90% of the world’s stocks are now fully or overfished and production is set to increase further by 2025, according to report from UN’s food body
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The pound’s precipitous fall has already sliced into the aid budget, and the vote to leave the EU could signal a more inward-looking agenda
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Five hundred women pour into markets of Cúcuta to buy toilet paper, flour and other goods as economic crisis in Venezuela deepens
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Dozens are killed and more than 70,000 displaced as horrific attacks on civilians in Wau, in the country’s north-west, cast fresh doubts on the peace process
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Pollution in the Kenyan capital is ‘beyond imagination’. With Africa’s predicted rise in population – and a constant stream of dirty secondhand cars from Europe and Japan – this urban health crisis could kill 1.5 million within a generation
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Severe droughts and floods have had a devastating impact on the island’s rural poor, who are reliant on small-scale farming or fishing
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Natalina Yaqoub is using her title to highlight the racist rhetoric used against the Nuba people, who are being bombed by the government
talking points
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Rape is far more prevalent in India’s towns and villages than in cities. Why did it take a media outcry for police in Kerala to investigate Jisha’s rape and murder?
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In Brazil, women are fighting against the sexist impeachment of Dilma Rousseff
Ani Hao in Rio de JaneiroFeminists who were on opposing sides are uniting to support the ousted first female president and protest against growing attacks on women’s rights -
A pioneering method of financing education, with returns based on results, aims to tackle the deep-seated inequality faced by millions of girls
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World leaders tasked with exploring education funding have a clear message for the UN secretary general: to put schooling first is to put society first
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The Lixão do Jóquei is scheduled to be closed this year, but hundreds of people still make a dangerous living from scavenging amid its mounds of trash
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Photographer Robert Fogarty marks the fifth birthday of South Sudan with portraits of people bearing messages of hope for their war-torn country
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Global population hit 7.3 billion people midway through 2015, an increase of 2 billion since 1990. Falling birth rates are being countered by a rise in life expectancy
games & quizzes
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Reckon you could teach world humanitarian summit delegates a thing or two about aid? Take our quiz and find out if you’re a wizard on human welfare
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Access to water is a basic human right, but roughly one in 10 people globally are without a safe source. To mark World Water Day, try our quiz
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Are you a superpower on sovereignty? Take our quiz to find out if you’re presidential material when it comes to people in power
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Are you top of the rich list when it comes to knowing about inequality or is your knowledge bank a little bit empty?
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Women's rights and gender equality in focusWomen's rights and gender equality in focus'How can a girl become a taxi driver?': defying India's caste and gender taboosYoung women are challenging traditional roles to train as taxi drivers, part of a programme to empower children from marginalised families
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Modern-day slavery in focusModern-day slavery in focusWorst-offender lists biased towards rich countries won’t help us fight slaveryForget big-picture statistics – in-depth, site-specific analyses that reveal supply chains tainted with slavery are what we need to tackle human exploitation
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Global Development Professionals NetworkGlobal Development Professionals NetworkThe phrase 'economic development' has bad associations in Latin America
The phrase 'economic development' has bad associations in Latin America
Leny Olivera Rojas and Aldo Orellana Lopez in CochabambaThere are better ways of living; we don’t have to prioritise growth above everything else -
Guardian Africa networkGuardian Africa network'There is no escape': Nairobi's air pollution sparks Africa health warningPollution in the Kenyan capital is ‘beyond imagination’. With Africa’s predicted rise in population – and a constant stream of dirty secondhand cars from Europe and Japan – this urban health crisis could kill 1.5 million within a generation
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Two of the prestigious Caine Prize nominees had only been published in online journals, as power shifts from publishers to literary collectives
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Even Robert Mugabe’s most ardent supporters are beginning to voice support for the widespread anti-regime protests
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South Sudan Wounded in spirit, the country needs the salve of mutual forgiveness