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pakistan child poverty
May 18, 2019
Millions of Pakistanis grieve under elitist economic policies
by: Shadi Khan Saif
Pakistani citizens seem caught in a vicious cycle of economic policies cobbled under the shadows of often misperceived regional geostrategic ambitions.
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gender pay gap
June 14, 2018
Gender Wealth Gap Costs the World $160 Trillion
topic: Women’s rights
A new report from the World Bank Group shows that inequality is gendered – and the global economy is losing out.
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kabul books
January 15, 2018
Insecure copyrights are a big issue for Afghan writers
topic: Good Governance
by: Shadi Khan Saif
Since 2008, copyright in Afghanistan has been governed by the law on the support the right of authors, composers, artists, researchers. What happened since?
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green economy
December 19, 2017
One planet is all we need
by: Bob Koigi
"Those who fail to bet on a green economy will be living in a grey future.”
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farmer africa
October 17, 2017
Placing the African youth at the heart of the food security debate
by: Bob Koigi
Agriculture is the only sector that holds the promise of creating millions of jobs and an unlimited world of possibilities for the youth in Africa.
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May 02, 2016
How Michael Jackson helped to pull Quechua out of the darkness
topic: Indigenous people
by: Pablo Pérez Álvarez
Recent Quechua versions of English pop song have proved major hits online. Is Quechua language becoming cool?
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displacement world bank
April 28, 2015
World Bank puts economic growth over human rights
by: Murat Suner
The International Consortium for Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and The Huffington Post estimate that 3.4 million people have been physically or [...]
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ebola treatment centre
January 20, 2015
Remember Ebola? Still on, but funds are out
by: Murat Suner
Up to January 16th, World Health Organisation (WHO) reported to BBC, 8,483 people had died from the disease in six countries; Liberia, Guinea, Sierra [...]
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MDG : eviction the Sengwer community from their ancestral lands in the Embobut Kenya
October 03, 2014
World Bank fails to protect indigenous people
by: Vanessa Ellingham
The World Bank has failed to protect one of Kenya's last indigenous hunter-gatherer people, according to a leaked report from the Bank obtained by [...]
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July 30, 2014
Leaked World Bank report proposes relaxation of safeguards for people and environment
by: Vanessa Ellingham
Devastating plans for the World Bank to roll back some of the tougher conditions for lending funds to developing countries have been revealed in a [...]
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June 02, 2013
World Bank helps South Sudan on road to stability
by: FairPlanet Editorial Team
Over the last decade, the story of the Sudanese region has been one wracked with ethnic tension, widespread conflict and mass casualties. The Dafur War which [...]
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April 19, 2013
The New Deal: How to Build More Peaceful States
by: Sara Jabril
Since the pledge made by all United Nations member states to meet the so-called Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, there has been an [...]
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