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The keys to universal health coverage

Jakaya Kikwete, former president of Tanzania, urges national leaders to focus on improving primary care

Reuters

The Silk Road Blues

China's neighbourhood wants better conditions for joint projects under the Belt and Road Initiative

By Adrienne Woltersdorf

Reuters

Like a cat with nine lives

Nigerian history had its ups and downs. But celebrating 58 years of independence now, its democracy is here to stay

Reuters

The real problem with free trade

Current global rules have enabled a few large firms to capture an ever-larger share of wealth created from trade

By Jayati Ghosh

Reuters

Take Africa seriously!

Germany‘s Africa policy is still stuck in old models and urgently needs a paradigm shift. Six recommendations

By Robert Kappel

Reuters

Refugees as entrepreneurs

In northern Kenya, the arrival of refugees drives the economic development of impoverished areas

By Bettina Rühl

Reuters

A crisis of historic proportions

Michael Langer in Caracas on the situation following the attempted assassination of President Maduro

By Michael Langer

EPA

More of the same?

The first election in Zimbabwe after Mugabe's 37-year rule probably won't deliver more democracy

By Ulrich Golaszinski

Pexels

The lack of democracy in the international financial order

Illicit financial flows and the offshore world are disproportionately hurting developing countries

By Neeti Biyani

EPA

Before the next storm

How to strengthen small island states

By Jorge Moreira da Silva