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Is aid just an extension of colonial economics? Or a lifeline for imperfect but necessary support systems? Firoze Manji and Pablo Yanguas go head to head on the thorny topic of development assistance.

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s ‘refugee drowner-in-chief’, is put under the spotlight.

Peter Yeung reports on the politics of street food in Bangkok - an informal industry currently under threat from the forces of gentrification.

Exploitation by tech firms and social media firms is not inevitable, suggests Vanessa Baird.

Exploitation by tech firms is not inevitable, suggests Vanessa Baird.

French law forbids food waste by supermarkets ... France has become the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing ... In December a bill on the issue passed through the national assembly, having been

By supermarkets, that is. Timothy Baster and Isabelle Merminod on the progress of a much-lauded French law.

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December 2018, Issue 517

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